[cc-humanrights] Last call for CCWP charter

Mon Apr 13 21:25:02 UTC 2015

Hi Patrik,

indeed it is time to move on. we got an acceptable charter for now and we
should start the real work (we have less than 3 months before BA meeting)

Best,

Rafik

2015-04-14 2:34 GMT+09:00 Patrik Fältström <paf at netnod.se>:

> Just to make things clear, I think this is fine.
>
> This should move forward in the chartering process.
>
>    Patrik
>
> > On 10 apr 2015, at 11:43, Niels ten Oever <niels at article19.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I have tried to balance both the comments and text suggestions from
> > everyone in the following draft text for the CCWP. I tried to balance
> > ICANNs corporate responsibilities, social responsibilities, its impact
> > on society and its impact on human rights.
> >
> > I hope this text is both broad and narrow enough for everyone to work
> > with. I'm greatly looking forward to your endorsements, comments
> > (preferably with text suggestions), I hope we can make the final
> > decision on Tuesday.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Niels
> >
> > PS I'm also keeping a pad with the changes here:
> > https://etherpad.mozilla.org/icannhr
> >
> > Background
> >
> > This cross community working party (CCWP) seeks to map and understand
> > the issues and potential solutions related to corporate and social
> > responsibilities of the Internet Corporation
> > for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), and this related, but not
> > limited to policies, procedures and operations, it particularly
> > focuses on ICANNs responsibility to respect human rights. It builds on
> > a long term community engagement on this topic, further catalyzed with
> > the publication of the paper 'ICANN's procedures and policies in the
> > light of human rights, fundamental freedoms and democratic values', as
> > commissioned by the Council of Europe, and after sessions held in
> > London, Los Angeles and Singapore. It seeks to improve ICANN's
> > measures to respect human rights in accordance with article 4 of
> > ICANN's articles of incorporation and and have established a programme
> > for corporate social responsibility.
> >
> > Objective
> >
> > The CCWP on ICANNs Corporate  and Social Responsibility to Respect
> > Human Rights  would have the purpose to raise awareness, provide
> > information, facilitate dialogue and make suggestions to ICANN the
> > corporation and the ICANN community on ways to better harmonize
> > ICANN’s policies and procedures with internationally recognized human
> > rights and corporate social responsibility standards, such as UN
> > Guiding Principles on Business and HUman Rights, the UN Global
> > Compact, and the European Commission and International Human Rights
> > and Business guidelines on implementation of the UN Guiding Principles
> > on Business and Human Rights for the ICT Sector. This specifically in
> > the context of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and
> > the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). The
> > working party will focus on issues related to human rights that are
> > directly impacted by ICANN policy decisions, procedures and operations.
> >
> > Responsibilities and scope of work
> >
> > (i) To continue the process of raising awareness about the interplay
> > between ICANN’s policies, procedures and operations and corporate and
> > social responsibility issues, specifically with respect for human rights;
> >
> > (ii) To map and collect information from the community about cases as
> > well as current ICANN policies, procedures and operations that present
> > an impact on the respect of human
> > rights in which further guidance on how to harmonize policies and
> > procedures with increased respect of human rights would be necessary;
> >
> > (iii) To develop corporate and social responsibility guidelines for
> > the procedures that are in place or that should be created in the
> > policy development process to ensure specifically, but not limited to,
> > the respect for human rights;
> >
> > (iv) To provide information, suggestions and recommendations to the
> > chartering organizations and to the broader ICANN community on how
> > ICANN’s policies and procedures can be
> > developed and implemented consistent with internationally recognized
> > standards. This input can inform the policy development processes as
> > defined in the ICANN Bylaws.
> >
> > (v) To propose procedures and mechanisms with the aim of producing
> > assessments on if and how policies and procedures under development
> > and/or being implemented may impact on human rights.
> >
> > (vi) Draft Position Papers and Statements as deemed appropriate
> >
> > (vii) To carry out further discussions about the pertinence and timing
> > for the creation of a cross-community working group on this issue.
> >
> > The membership of the CCWP on ICANNs Corporate  and Social
> > Responsibility to Respect Human Rights is proposed to include members
> > representing the diversity of the ICANN community. The Working Party
> > will serve as a focal point for the CSR discussion, knowledge
> > dissemination and communication about the impact of ICANN's policies
> > and procedures on corporate and social responsibility, specifically
> > related to Human Rights. Its activities will be conducted in an open
> > and fully transparent manner.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Niels ten Oever
> > Head of Digital
> >
> > Article 19
> > www.article19.org
> >
> > PGP fingerprint    8D9F C567 BEE4 A431 56C4
> >                   678B 08B5 A0F2 636D 68E9
> >
> > On 04/06/2015 06:27 PM, Niels ten Oever wrote:
> >>
> >> On 04/06/2015 06:12 PM, Patrik Fältström wrote:
> >>>> By adding Corporate Social Responsibility to the work of this
> >>>> working party we're expanding the scope far beyond human
> >>>> rights. Initially we have tried to make the scope smaller by
> >>>> only having a look at first generation human rights, and
> >>>> predominantly freedom of expression and the right to privacy
> >>>> and the impact ICANN has on them. CSR opens up the discussion
> >>>> on: The impact of a company on economic, environmental and
> >>>> social impacts caused by its everyday activities. These are a
> >>>> lot of different things, far beyond what was initially
> >>>> envisioned. Ranging from CO2 emisions, travel policy,
> >>>> transparency, renumeration, supply chain disclosure, I've been
> >>>> having a look at the best practices in CSR-land, and it is
> >>>> quite huge: https://www.globalreporting.org/
> >>>
> >>> Yes, CSR is a VERY broad topic. One must scope it.
> >>>
> >>>> If we manage to produce a report provuides an analysis and
> >>>> recommendations based on the IHRB report [0] that Patrik
> >>>> mentioned is, would for me be a perfect outcome of our work,
> >>>> but I am curious if people think we should go further.
> >>>>
> >>>> Patrik mentioned that he wanted to include topics of labor in
> >>>> this work, but that seems covered by the UN Guiding Principles
> >>>> on Business and Human Rights and are also addressed in the
> >>>> IHRB report.
> >>>
> >>> No, I said we COULD do that.
> >>>
> >>> I agree we must be scoped.
> >>>
> >>>> So I just want to make sure that our scope is wide enough to
> >>>> include everything we want to do, but narrow enough to keep it
> >>>> manageable.
> >>>>
> >>>> Currently I am not 100% sure if we are discussing semantics,
> >>>> or issues we want to tackle, it seems we are discussing the
> >>>> difference between things that mean the same to me:
> >>>
> >>> To me semantics.
> >>
> >> Happy to hear this all. Let's work it out :)
> >>>
> >>>> 1. CCWP on ICANN and Human Rights 2. CCWP on ICANNs Corporate
> >>>> Responsibility to Respect Human Rights 3. CCWP on ICANN CSR
> >>>> issues related to Human Rights
> >>>>
> >>>> But I think that this has a far wider scope:
> >>>>
> >>>> 4. CCWP on Corporate Social Responsibility for ICANN
> >>>>
> >>>> And this email made me want to check with you Patrik if we're
> >>>> talking about the same thing:
> >>>>
> >>>> On 04/05/2015 04:42 PM, Patrik Fältström wrote:
> >>>>> I just do not want this to be a CCWG on Human Rights. It
> >>>>> should be on ICANN CSR issues related to Human Rights.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> And once again, if I am alone in being sensitive on this
> >>>>> kind of wording, let me know. Then I rest my case ;-)
> >>>>
> >>>> Looking forward to discuss!
> >>>
> >>> So it is [3] above I am asking for, of your four alternatives.
> >>>
> >>> But I understand the view of Bill that it might be viewed
> >>> immediately as "ICANN as the corporation", so I can go with a
> >>> name of the CCWG that is as [1].
> >>>
> >>> I will have a look at the document you produced online Niels.
> >>>
> >>> Once again, I am sensitive to "Human Rights" as I very strongly
> >>> see Human Rights are agreements between states on what they MUST
> >>> do and what they MUST NEVER do. Everyone else is acting in that
> >>> context. For example by doing activities that forces States to
> >>> change their behavior. Or by acting in a specific way just
> >>> because States do misbehave (but one have to do things there
> >>> anyway).
> >>>
> >>> It might have been teachers I have had that hammered this
> >>> possibly too drastic view into my brain...but there you are.
> >>>
> >>> And still, I can view myself be in the minority here.
> >>>
> >>> Patrik
> >>>
> >>
> >> Very happy to have your voice in this discussion Patrik (isn't
> >> human rights all about protecting minorities ;) ). Previously we
> >> noticed that as long as we were talking about Human Rights, people
> >> thought we were going to have ICANN as an advocacy organizations
> >> against torture. Adding 'ICANNs Corporate Responsibility to Respect
> >> Human Rights' made things much clearer for many people (and linked
> >> it very directly to the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human
> >> Rights). So great to be able to test what is the best language to
> >> describe what we want to do.
> >>
> >> There are indeed different obligations for states (that should
> >> protect human rights) and for other actors (that should respect
> >> human rights), which is both a responsibility.
> >>
> >> It's just that CSR has become quite something of a marketing term
> >> for a lot of different things, so I would be afraid that it would
> >> create more confusion than it would solve. But if you think the
> >> opposite, what would you think of:
> >>
> >> 5. CCWP on ICANNs Corporate Social Responsibility to respect Human
> >> Rights ?
> >>
> >> I think it would help deciding on this before I go edit the
> >> document.
> >>
> >> Finally, Bill: do you think the issue about 'corporate' is more of
> >> an issue in CSR than in CR ? Because this was not brought up at
> >> the discussion in Singapore even though the title of the session
> >> was ICANNs Corporate Responsibility to Respect Human Rights.
> >>
> >> Looking forward to discuss.
> >>
> >> Best,
> >>
> >> Niels
> >>
> >>
> >>
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