[cc-humanrights] Last call for CCWP charter
zalnieriute .
zalnieriute at gmail.com
Wed Apr 15 08:53:01 UTC 2015
Hello everyone,
As we are about to start writing a new research paper/report for ICANN
53 together
with Niels and Article 19 , it would be great if You could comment and
suggest what could be added/deleted from the initial draft OUTLINE and
propose the potential length & title for the paper.
Se my initial proposal below, and all are welcome to make suggestions:
*Corporate and Social Responsibility to Respect Human Rights: Practical
Recommendations for ICANN *
1. 1. Introduction
2. 2. The Internet Specific CSR- HR Considerations
3. 3. Learning from Others: How the Human Rights Policies Have Been
Implemented in Other Organizations
3.1.Insights from IHRB Report & Sample HR Policies
3.2. Insights on CSR-HR as they relate to
a) freedom of expression
b) data protection and privacy
3.3.Internet specific CSR_HR initiates/projects, each as, e.g., Silicon
Valley Standard, Global Network Initiative
3.4. Lessons for ICANN
4. Fitting CHR-HR mechanisms/policies into ICANN Context/Policy process;
4. 1. Short-term/ad hoc measures
4. 2. Long-term continuous procedures/mechanisms in place
4. 3. HR impacts assessments & how that could be implemented in
ICANN.
5. Examples of/Potential Areas/Policies Where CSR-HR Needs to Be
Implemented
This could include one or both:
5.1. Some broad naming of problematic areas; and/or
5.2. Closer look/case study on specific policy (e.g., the UDRP - to go
to, e.g., in the Annex?);
6. Conclusions/Recommendations
Will be waiting for Your ideas and suggestions,
Best wishes
On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 12:25 AM, Rafik Dammak <rafik.dammak at gmail.com>
wrote:
> 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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Dr. Monika Zalnieriute
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European University Viadrina
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