[Ws2-hr] Draft Message to CCWG

[Kavouss Arasteh]

Dear Niels
Please see my message  send in this regards
Kavouss.


On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 2:52 PM, Niels ten Oever <lists at nielstenoever.net>
wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I hope this e-mail finds you all very well. As a follow up to yesterdays
> meeting Bernie and I have prepared a response to the CCWG that you can
> find underneath, as well as a more detailed overview attached.
>
> This is a first draft. We would very much like to hear you comments,
> suggestions and improvements.
>
> All the best,
>
> Niels
>
> The Cross Community Working Group on Enhancing ICANN’s Accountability
> Human Rights Subgroup would like to sincerely thanks those who have
> taken the time and effort to submit public comment to the Framework of
> Interpretation and Considerations document during the Public Comment
> Period [0].
>
> The Subgroup has analyzed and discussed the comments at great length and
> came to the following conclusions:
>
> The mandate of the group does not include suggesting any changes to the
> ICANN Bylaws, this includes the Bylaw on Human Rights. As such any
> comments which would require changing the Bylaws cannot be accepted.
> This is the case for comments recommending changes in the hierarchy of
> Core Values as outlined in the bylaw or for comments pertaining the use
> of the term “applicable law” which is part of ICANN’s Human Rights bylaw.
>
> The Subgroup does recognize that the documents mentioned in the
> footnotes are not necessarily an exhaustive list of human rights
> document, and therefore the text has been  changed from ‘including:’ to
> ‘including, but not limited to:’.
>
> Finally, no new references to any instrument in general or the UN
> Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights in specific have been
> added. The group feels the current proposed wording is a balanced
> consensus between the different opinions held in the ICANN community,
> particularly concerning the remit of ICANN’s Mission.
>
> The HR sub-group has developed a document which lists a response to each
> of the major comments submitted to the public consultation and is
> including it in this email for reference by the CCWG-Accountability-WS2.
> This will be published on the public consultation web site as part of
> the standard process.
>
> As such the HR sub-group is submitting its final recommendations for an
> HR FoI to the CCWG-Accountability-WS2 for approval. Given the
> submissions made in the public comment process and the minimal changes
> that have been made to the document to address these the HR sub-group
> would not recommend this version be posted for public comment.
>
> [0] https://www.icann.org/public-comments/foi-hr-2017-05-05-en
>
>
>
> --
> Niels ten Oever
> Head of Digital
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