[cc-humanrights] cc-humanrights Digest, Vol 18, Issue 5
Corinne Cath
cattekwaad at gmail.com
Tue May 17 09:59:04 UTC 2016
Dear all,
I have been working on the FOI - and developed some completely new text on
the basis of your suggestions, which you can find below.
I have focused on the Ruggie principles as the standard for ICANN to
uphold. I assume this is still open for discussion, but for the time being
(or unless Tatiana, Aarti or Vidushi tell me that I have no business making
these kinds of decisions as a none-lawyer ;) I am focusing on Ruggie.
However, I am running into some troubles trying to actually flesh out what
steps should be taken to ensure the interpretation of the Ruggie principles
happens as we believe will best ensure ICANN's commitment to respect human
rights.
Right now I combined text from the HRIA document, the research done
<http://www.ihrb.org/pdf/reports/2015-11-17-ICANN-Corporate-Responsibility-to-Respect-Human-Rights.pdf>
by Article 19 and the guiding principles
<http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/HR.PUB.12.2_En.pdf>for the
Ruggie principles. But I feel like I am going in circles, and suggesting in
the FOI that we need the development of other policies and procedures.
Which I don't think is the best way forward.
If anyone has any thoughts now, or on the call later today that would be
much appreciated!
Best,
*FOI Version 3 *
The purpose of this Framework of Interpretation (FOI) is to give a
framework for applying human rights principles to ensure that ICANN
respects internationally recognized human rights. The most appropriate
principles to set as the standard in the case of ICANN are the UN Guiding
Principles on Business and Human Rights, also known as the Ruggie
principles. These principles present a set of guidelines for States and
companies to ‘protect, respect, and remedy’ human rights abuses committed
in business operations. Their unique tailoring to businesses makes them a
good fit for ICANN. The word respect in this case refers to companies’
responsibility to avoid infringing on the human rights of others and should
address adverse human rights impacts with which they are involved (Guiding
principle 11,
<http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/GuidingPrinciplesBusinessHR_EN.pdf>
for implementing the Ruggie Principles).
The overall Ruggie principles has three tiers:
1. State responsibility to protect against human rights abuses by third
entities, including businesses through policies, regulation and
adjudication.
2. Corporate responsibility to respect human rights, in which businesses
are asked to practice due diligence (see definition below) to avoid
infringing on the rights of others and address instances of adverse impact
in which they are involved.
3. Access to effective remedy for victims, both judicial and non-judicial.
This framework of interpretation develops a set of guiding principles based
on those presented by the UN for the Ruggie principles and specifically
focused on the second tier: the corporate responsibility to respect human
rights.
*Corporate responsibility to respect human rights:*
In addition to an explicit human rights commitment, companies need to adopt
a due diligence approach to their business processes. Due diligence in the
case of human rights refers to the: “An ongoing risk management process…in
order to identify, prevent, mitigate and account for how [a company]
addresses its adverse human rights impacts. It includes four key steps:
assessing actual and potential human rights impacts; integrating and acting
on the findings; tracking responses; and communicating about how impacts
are addressed.” (UN Ruggie Principles).
In practice this mean companies need to have in place on-going processes
that identify potential human rights abuses, that allow them to respond in
a timely fashion with measures to prevent these abuses. These processes can
also identify ongoing human rights abuses, and as such, need to include
procedures to remedy those. Keeping in mind that this framework of
interpretation does not create any additional obligation for ICANN to
respond to or consider any complaint, request or demand seeking the
enforcement of human rights by ICANN.
Based on this information the following steps should be taken to ensure
proper interpretation of the Ruggie Principles:
*Phase 1: Human rights impact analysis*
a.) A planning and scoping phase that includes scoping of (i) ICANN’s
business activities to understand the scale and type of ICANN’s operations,
and (ii) the human rights context of ICANN’s operation to understand the
human rights topics in the particular ICANN operational context.
b.) Data collection and baseline phase: additional data gathering to
better
understand the key human rights areas identified in phase a, through
further research, as well as interviews and stakeholder engagement.
c.) Impact analysis: systematically identify any human rights impacts of
ICANN operations and to assess their severity against the Ruggie Principles.
d.) Present an impact analysis matrix.
*Phase 2: Mitigation and prevention system for human rights abuses*
a.) Manage and mitigate impact by applying a mitigation hierarchy that
first focuses on prevention, and where not possible applies mitigation
strategies. This includes finding ways to exercise leverage to address
impacts in collaboration with third parties, including business partners,
stakeholders, government agencies etc.
b.) Clearly establish roles and responsibility, allocate resources and
establish
performance indicators, milestones and deadlines to be followed.
*Phase 3: Presentation of findings *
a.) Present the responses to the issues identified on an on going basis.
*Phase 4: Reporting and evaluation*
a.) Reporting publically on progress periodically.
b.) Develop mechanism to feed these results back into phase 2.
c.) ICANN board and management should carry out a comprehensive (and
preferably an external) process of review and evaluation of its Policy and
Management Plan/System after three to five years of implementation.
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