[CCWG-ACCT] Board comments on Recommendation 6 - Human Rights

[Niels ten Oever]

Hi Bruce,

This is indeed great news, we'll discuss human rights commitments in the
CCWP HR and make suggestions to the board for your consideration.

Best,

Niels



On 02/04/2016 10:56 AM, Dr. Tatiana Tropina wrote:
> Dear Kavouss, dear Bruce,
> well this day is just full of good news about human rights commitment. I
> am sure many of the CCWG members are happy to hear that the board is
> developing a resolution in addition to the bylaw text! Thanks for the
> updates, Bruce.
> If CCWG members (especially those who were a part of WP4 on human
> rights) can be of any help for developing this wording together with the
> board, I am sure some of us will volunteers for this. There are some
> good examples of such commitments already adopted on practice (well,
> they probably can't serve as a quick off the cuff solution because of
> ICANN's unique mission and operations, but with some fine-tuning one can
> develop something similar in spirit). I am sure ICANN will find a proper
> wording.
> Thanks again!
> Best regards
> Tatiana
> 
> On 04/02/16 10:41, Bruce Tonkin wrote:
>> Hello Kavouss,
>>
>> We discussed both options yesterday.  We went with this option in the spirit of helping to reach closure on CCWG recommendations. 
>>
>> There is still some support on the board to also pass a resolution but we felt that we needed more time to get the wording of such a resolution right.  I welcome any suggested text that could be considered at our meeting in Marrakech.
>>
>> Regards 
>>
>> Bruce Tonkin
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>> On 4 Feb 2016, at 8:31 PM, Kavouss Arasteh <kavouss.arasteh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear Bruce
>>> We had two alternatives
>>> 1. The current agreed text
>>> 2. An ICANN COMMITMENT RESOLUTION  test should refer to application/ respect of HR by ICANN , endorsed by CCWG
>>> You promised to work on  the second one?
>>> Where is the Commitment Board,s Resolution?
>>> Kavouss 
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>>> On 4 Feb 2016, at 10:02, Bruce Tonkin <Bruce.Tonkin at melbourneit.com.au> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello Nigel,
>>>>
>>>>>> and clearly says "human rights are NOT part of our core values".
>>>> I don't think that is quite right.
>>>>
>>>> Applicable law actually covers some human rights (e.g. slavery, torture)   - it just may not cover all the human rights that you would like to be considered by ICANN.   
>>>>
>>>> There are some human rights that clearly don't apply to ICANN - ie we don't have arrest powers so arbitrary arrest clearly doesn't apply, nor do we charge people with penal offences, or confer nationality on people.
>>>>
>>>> It is determining the relevant human rights that should apply to ICANN  beyond the basic set that is in applicable law that is the subject for work stream 2.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Bruce Tonkin 
>>>>
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