<div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Hi all,</font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I know there have been a lot of debates on the title. My final insights.</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><p class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Just being very strategic and critical:</span><span lang="EN-US">'CCWP on ICANNs Corporate and Social </span>Responsibility to Respect Human Rights<span lang="EN-US">' is too long for others to bother saying, remembering, etc in my opinion. </span></font></p><p class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br>Putting 'ICANNs' and 'Corporate' is saying the same thing twice - indeed the title ' ICANN' means 'International Corporation for......, so we then say Corporation's Corporate Responsibility. The same. <br></font></span></p><p class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><p class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Ruggie says: the Corporate Responsibility to Respect human rights. Ruggie is the starting point, so I think combing these two insights, I would suggest:<br></font></p><p class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">‘CCWP on ICANNs Responsibility to Respect Human Rights’</font></p><p class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">On the other hand, Niels proposed <span lang="EN-US">'CCWP on ICANNs Corporate and Social </span>Responsibility to Respect Human Rights<span lang="EN-US">' - and it is also good, but too long and repetetive, in my view;</span></font></p><p class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><p class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Best wishes,</font></span></p><p class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><p class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Monika</font></span></p></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Niels ten Oever <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:niels@article19.org" target="_blank">niels@article19.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello everyone,<br>
<br>
I have tried to balance both the comments and text suggestions from<br>
everyone in the following draft text for the CCWP. I tried to balance<br>
ICANNs corporate responsibilities, social responsibilities, its impact<br>
on society and its impact on human rights.<br>
<br>
I hope this text is both broad and narrow enough for everyone to work<br>
with. I'm greatly looking forward to your endorsements, comments<br>
(preferably with text suggestions), I hope we can make the final<br>
decision on Tuesday.<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
<br>
Niels<br>
<br>
PS I'm also keeping a pad with the changes here:<br>
<a href="https://etherpad.mozilla.org/icannhr" target="_blank">https://etherpad.mozilla.org/icannhr</a><br>
<span class=""><br>
Background<br>
<br>
This cross community working party (CCWP) seeks to map and understand<br>
</span>the issues and potential solutions related to corporate and social<br>
responsibilities of the Internet Corporation<br>
<span class="">for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), and this related, but not<br>
</span>limited to policies, procedures and operations, it particularly<br>
focuses on ICANNs responsibility to respect human rights. It builds on<br>
a long term community engagement on this topic, further catalyzed with<br>
<span class="">the publication of the paper 'ICANN's procedures and policies in the<br>
light of human rights, fundamental freedoms and democratic values', as<br>
commissioned by the Council of Europe, and after sessions held in<br>
London, Los Angeles and Singapore. It seeks to improve ICANN's<br>
</span>measures to respect human rights in accordance with article 4 of<br>
ICANN's articles of incorporation and and have established a programme<br>
for corporate social responsibility.<br>
<br>
Objective<br>
<br>
The CCWP on ICANNs Corporate and Social Responsibility to Respect<br>
Human Rights would have the purpose to raise awareness, provide<br>
<span class="">information, facilitate dialogue and make suggestions to ICANN the<br>
corporation and the ICANN community on ways to better harmonize<br>
</span>ICANN’s policies and procedures with internationally recognized human<br>
rights and corporate social responsibility standards, such as UN<br>
Guiding Principles on Business and HUman Rights, the UN Global<br>
Compact, and the European Commission and International Human Rights<br>
and Business guidelines on implementation of the UN Guiding Principles<br>
on Business and Human Rights for the ICT Sector. This specifically in<br>
<span class="">the context of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and<br>
the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). The<br>
working party will focus on issues related to human rights that are<br>
directly impacted by ICANN policy decisions, procedures and operations.<br>
<br>
Responsibilities and scope of work<br>
<br>
(i) To continue the process of raising awareness about the interplay<br>
</span>between ICANN’s policies, procedures and operations and corporate and<br>
social responsibility issues, specifically with respect for human rights;<br>
<span class=""><br>
(ii) To map and collect information from the community about cases as<br>
</span>well as current ICANN policies, procedures and operations that present<br>
<span class="">an impact on the respect of human<br>
rights in which further guidance on how to harmonize policies and<br>
procedures with increased respect of human rights would be necessary;<br>
<br>
</span>(iii) To develop corporate and social responsibility guidelines for<br>
<span class="">the procedures that are in place or that should be created in the<br>
policy development process to ensure specifically, but not limited to,<br>
the respect for human rights;<br>
<br>
(iv) To provide information, suggestions and recommendations to the<br>
chartering organizations and to the broader ICANN community on how<br>
ICANN’s policies and procedures can be<br>
developed and implemented consistent with internationally recognized<br>
</span><span class="">standards. This input can inform the policy development processes as<br>
defined in the ICANN Bylaws.<br>
<br>
(v) To propose procedures and mechanisms with the aim of producing<br>
assessments on if and how policies and procedures under development<br>
and/or being implemented may impact on human rights.<br>
<br>
</span><span class="">(vi) Draft Position Papers and Statements as deemed appropriate<br>
<br>
(vii) To carry out further discussions about the pertinence and timing<br>
for the creation of a cross-community working group on this issue.<br>
<br>
</span>The membership of the CCWP on ICANNs Corporate and Social<br>
Responsibility to Respect Human Rights is proposed to include members<br>
<span class="">representing the diversity of the ICANN community. The Working Party<br>
will serve as a focal point for the CSR discussion, knowledge<br>
dissemination and communication about the impact of ICANN's policies<br>
</span>and procedures on corporate and social responsibility, specifically<br>
<span class="im HOEnZb">related to Human Rights. Its activities will be conducted in an open<br>
and fully transparent manner.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
</span><span class="im HOEnZb">Niels ten Oever<br>
Head of Digital<br>
<br>
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</span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On 04/06/2015 06:27 PM, Niels ten Oever wrote:<br>
><br>
> On 04/06/2015 06:12 PM, Patrik Fältström wrote:<br>
>>> By adding Corporate Social Responsibility to the work of this<br>
>>> working party we're expanding the scope far beyond human<br>
>>> rights. Initially we have tried to make the scope smaller by<br>
>>> only having a look at first generation human rights, and<br>
>>> predominantly freedom of expression and the right to privacy<br>
>>> and the impact ICANN has on them. CSR opens up the discussion<br>
>>> on: The impact of a company on economic, environmental and<br>
>>> social impacts caused by its everyday activities. These are a<br>
>>> lot of different things, far beyond what was initially<br>
>>> envisioned. Ranging from CO2 emisions, travel policy,<br>
>>> transparency, renumeration, supply chain disclosure, I've been<br>
>>> having a look at the best practices in CSR-land, and it is<br>
>>> quite huge: <a href="https://www.globalreporting.org/" target="_blank">https://www.globalreporting.org/</a><br>
>><br>
>> Yes, CSR is a VERY broad topic. One must scope it.<br>
>><br>
>>> If we manage to produce a report provuides an analysis and<br>
>>> recommendations based on the IHRB report [0] that Patrik<br>
>>> mentioned is, would for me be a perfect outcome of our work,<br>
>>> but I am curious if people think we should go further.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Patrik mentioned that he wanted to include topics of labor in<br>
>>> this work, but that seems covered by the UN Guiding Principles<br>
>>> on Business and Human Rights and are also addressed in the<br>
>>> IHRB report.<br>
>><br>
>> No, I said we COULD do that.<br>
>><br>
>> I agree we must be scoped.<br>
>><br>
>>> So I just want to make sure that our scope is wide enough to<br>
>>> include everything we want to do, but narrow enough to keep it<br>
>>> manageable.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Currently I am not 100% sure if we are discussing semantics,<br>
>>> or issues we want to tackle, it seems we are discussing the<br>
>>> difference between things that mean the same to me:<br>
>><br>
>> To me semantics.<br>
><br>
> Happy to hear this all. Let's work it out :)<br>
>><br>
>>> 1. CCWP on ICANN and Human Rights 2. CCWP on ICANNs Corporate<br>
>>> Responsibility to Respect Human Rights 3. CCWP on ICANN CSR<br>
>>> issues related to Human Rights<br>
>>><br>
>>> But I think that this has a far wider scope:<br>
>>><br>
>>> 4. CCWP on Corporate Social Responsibility for ICANN<br>
>>><br>
>>> And this email made me want to check with you Patrik if we're<br>
>>> talking about the same thing:<br>
>>><br>
>>> On 04/05/2015 04:42 PM, Patrik Fältström wrote:<br>
>>>> I just do not want this to be a CCWG on Human Rights. It<br>
>>>> should be on ICANN CSR issues related to Human Rights.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> And once again, if I am alone in being sensitive on this<br>
>>>> kind of wording, let me know. Then I rest my case ;-)<br>
>>><br>
>>> Looking forward to discuss!<br>
>><br>
>> So it is [3] above I am asking for, of your four alternatives.<br>
>><br>
>> But I understand the view of Bill that it might be viewed<br>
>> immediately as "ICANN as the corporation", so I can go with a<br>
>> name of the CCWG that is as [1].<br>
>><br>
>> I will have a look at the document you produced online Niels.<br>
>><br>
>> Once again, I am sensitive to "Human Rights" as I very strongly<br>
>> see Human Rights are agreements between states on what they MUST<br>
>> do and what they MUST NEVER do. Everyone else is acting in that<br>
>> context. For example by doing activities that forces States to<br>
>> change their behavior. Or by acting in a specific way just<br>
>> because States do misbehave (but one have to do things there<br>
>> anyway).<br>
>><br>
>> It might have been teachers I have had that hammered this<br>
>> possibly too drastic view into my brain...but there you are.<br>
>><br>
>> And still, I can view myself be in the minority here.<br>
>><br>
>> Patrik<br>
>><br>
><br>
> Very happy to have your voice in this discussion Patrik (isn't<br>
> human rights all about protecting minorities ;) ). Previously we<br>
> noticed that as long as we were talking about Human Rights, people<br>
> thought we were going to have ICANN as an advocacy organizations<br>
> against torture. Adding 'ICANNs Corporate Responsibility to Respect<br>
> Human Rights' made things much clearer for many people (and linked<br>
> it very directly to the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human<br>
> Rights). So great to be able to test what is the best language to<br>
> describe what we want to do.<br>
><br>
> There are indeed different obligations for states (that should<br>
> protect human rights) and for other actors (that should respect<br>
> human rights), which is both a responsibility.<br>
><br>
> It's just that CSR has become quite something of a marketing term<br>
> for a lot of different things, so I would be afraid that it would<br>
> create more confusion than it would solve. But if you think the<br>
> opposite, what would you think of:<br>
><br>
> 5. CCWP on ICANNs Corporate Social Responsibility to respect Human<br>
> Rights ?<br>
><br>
> I think it would help deciding on this before I go edit the<br>
> document.<br>
><br>
> Finally, Bill: do you think the issue about 'corporate' is more of<br>
> an issue in CSR than in CR ? Because this was not brought up at<br>
> the discussion in Singapore even though the title of the session<br>
> was ICANNs Corporate Responsibility to Respect Human Rights.<br>
><br>
> Looking forward to discuss.<br>
><br>
> Best,<br>
><br>
> Niels<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
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