[cc-humanrights] cc-humanrights Digest, Vol 5, Issue 11

Susan Aaronson saaronson2 at verizon.net
Mon Apr 13 21:43:20 UTC 2015


Good job Niels. Thank you.

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> Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 19:34:03 +0200
> From: Patrik F?ltstr?m <paf at netnod.se>
> To: Niels ten Oever <niels at article19.org>
> Cc: cc-humanrights at icann.org
> Subject: Re: [cc-humanrights] Last call for CCWP charter
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> 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
>>
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>> On 04/06/2015 06:27 PM, Niels ten Oever wrote:
>>> On 04/06/2015 06:12 PM, Patrik F?ltstr?m 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 F?ltstr?m 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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> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 06:25:02 +0900
> From: Rafik Dammak <rafik.dammak at gmail.com>
> To: Patrik F?ltstr?m <paf at netnod.se>
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> 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 F?ltstr?m <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 F?ltstr?m 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 F?ltstr?m 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> _______________________________________________ cc-humanrights
>>>> mailing list cc-humanrights at icann.org
>>>> https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-humanrights
>>>>
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