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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Probably should say something like this in order to be clear and make the roles within the organization clear:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">Unlike the internationally recognized human rights which legally obligate states (see below), the UNGPs do not create new international law obligations
or limit or undermine any legal obligations a State may have (UNGPs, General Principles). This also means that the UNGPs do not require enterprises to enforce human rights, which is the legal duty of states.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">Pursuant to the UNGPs,
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red;background:white">and consistent with existing processes and protocols, including, but not limited to, the MultiStakeholder Bottom-Up Policy Development Process, the
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white"> ICANN
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red;background:white">Empowered Community
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">can voluntarily express its commitment to respect human rights, and identify, prevent, mitigate and account for how it addresses adverse human rights impacts
through the process of human rights due diligence. In doing so, </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red;background:white">the
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">ICANN
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red;background:white">Empowered Community
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">can prioritize areas of focus, such as
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red;background:white">ICANN</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white"> operations, internal procedures, and/or new policy, consistent
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ICANN’s </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white"> Mission. In addition,
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red;background:white">while</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white"> operational level grievance mechanisms
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red;background:white">may</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white"> be established to address human rights grievances
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red;background:white">for internal matters, no such mechanism shall apply for the purpose of enforcing claims of human rights violations against third parties or as between one party
and another party</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">ICANN’s commitment to apply the UNGPs to its operations and policies in the foregoing manner is consistent with the letter and the spirit of the
human rights provision of the bylaws as well as with the UNGPs. </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red;background:white">Unless required by applicable law, all human rights policies shall be developed pursuant to the
MultiStakeholder Model bottom-up process and shall be effective upon subsequent adoption by the ICANN Board.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The above assumes that my idea for a Human Rights Objection process to new gTLD applications is toast.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> ws2-hr-bounces@icann.org [mailto:ws2-hr-bounces@icann.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Schaefer, Brett<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, October 03, 2016 8:56 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Niels ten Oever; ws2-hr@icann.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Ws2-hr] New Draft Text for FoI<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Niels,
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I wanted to highlight this statement in the document:
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">“</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">Pursuant to the UNGPs, ICANN can voluntarily express
its commitment to respect human rights, and identify, prevent, mitigate and account for how it addresses adverse human rights impacts through the process of human rights due diligence. In doing so, ICANN can prioritize areas of focus, such as its operations,
internal procedures, and/or new policy, consistent with its Mission. In addition, operational level grievance mechanisms should be established to address human rights grievances.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">ICANN’s commitment to apply the UNGPs to its operations and policies in the foregoing manner is consistent with the letter
and the spirit of the human rights provision of the bylaws as well as with the UNGPs.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">And<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">“As stated above, application of the human rights Core Value does not create any legal obligation of ICANN outside its
Mission. It is assumed that it is implicit in ICANN’s Mission that it will operate within the bounds of applicable laws; furthermore, it is also assumed that ICANN has the discretion to voluntarily make commitments to respect human rights and to carry out
human rights due diligence.” </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The text of the human rights core value states: “This Core Value does not create, and shall not be interpreted to create, any obligation on ICANN outside its
Mission, or beyond obligations found in applicable law. This Core Value does not obligate ICANN to enforce its human rights obligations, or the human rights obligations of other parties, against other parties.”
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The text quoted above from the draft FoI seems to be proposing a that because ICANN would be “voluntarily” identifying, preventing, mitigating and accounting
for adverse human rights impacts, that these commitments would not be inconsistent with the text of the new bylaws and that it would differ from an “obligation”.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Is that correct?
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Brett
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#004B8D">Brett</span></b>
<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#004B8D">Schaefer</span></b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#58595B"><br>
Jay Kingham Senior Research Fellow in International Regulatory Affairs<br>
Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy</span></i><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#58595B">The Heritage Foundation<br>
214 Massachusetts Avenue, NE<br>
Washington, DC 20002<br>
202-608-6097</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#004B8D"><a href="http://heritage.org/"><span style="color:#004B8D;text-decoration:none">heritage.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">
<a href="mailto:ws2-hr-bounces@icann.org">ws2-hr-bounces@icann.org</a> [<a href="mailto:ws2-hr-bounces@icann.org">mailto:ws2-hr-bounces@icann.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Niels ten Oever<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, October 03, 2016 11:07 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:ws2-hr@icann.org">ws2-hr@icann.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Ws2-hr] New Draft Text for FoI<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear all,<br>
<br>
I hope this e-mail finds you well. To ensure nothing of our constructive<br>
discussions is getting lost, and to help us continue to be very<br>
concrete, I would like to share with you the attached document, that can<br>
also be found here (page 2 onwards):<br>
<br>
<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1emqmzyB9_0vm6oKxhIWZ47L7lxcFKUBHVnkBYUOsA2Q/edit">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1emqmzyB9_0vm6oKxhIWZ47L7lxcFKUBHVnkBYUOsA2Q/edit</a><br>
<br>
The document aims to represent a sedimentation of our discussion and<br>
suggest a way forward, by providing potential text for the Framework of<br>
Interpretation. Partially inspired by the reaction of John Ruggie when I<br>
brought up our concerns with him.<br>
<br>
I hope this proves to be useful, and I am more than happy to discuss it<br>
with you all on the list and the call, and of course work on suggestions<br>
and comments in the Google Doc.<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
<br>
Niels<br>
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Niels ten Oever<br>
Head of Digital<br>
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Article 19<br>
<a href="http://www.article19.org">www.article19.org</a><br>
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