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From: Meryem Marzouki <Meryem.Marzouki@lip6.fr>
Date: Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 1:25 PM
Subject: Proposal for IRP Charter Revision
To: Lisa Horner <lisa@global-partners.co.uk>, Max Senges <maxsenges@gmail.com>
Cc: Meryem Marzouki <Meryem.Marzouki@lip6.fr>, Rikke Frank Joergensen <rfj@humanrights.dk>, Wolfgang Benedek <wolfgang.benedek@uni-graz.at>


Dear Lisa and Max,

First of all, sorry for my silence till now: I'm overwhelmed with work, in addition to many NGO activities..

Please find attached the proposal for the IRP Charter Revision process. This is a brief summary of discussions between Rikke, Wolfgang and myself at IGF 2009, taking into account the discussion during IRP coalition meeting in Sharm El Sheikh, as well as some latest developments on the IRP coalition list and in our exchanges (EuroDIG as a main milestone, taking into account the Free Culture Forum Charter, in case the proposal to merge efforts is pursued).
Rikke and Wolfgang have already agreed on this summary, so this is our common final proposal to the coalition.

Feel free to share this proposal with the coalition, to collect and summarize comments from its members until the end of this month, and get back to us in early January with the coalition latest comments and final version of the charter that we should work on, obviously provided that the coalition accepts our proposal.

As far as I'm concerned, I'll be travelling abroad starting from the end of this week, thus not available for further discussions. I suspect Rikke and Wolfgang will be very busy too in this period.

Best regards,
Meryem Marzouki

IRP Coalition Charter Revision Process

Proposal from the Human Rights Expert Group to the IRP Coalition

(Summary of discussion during IGF 2009)

Meryem Marzouki – 14 December 2009

 

 

 

This proposal is a summary of the meeting held during IGF 2009 between the first three identified HR experts (Wolfgang Benedek, Rikke Frank Joergensen, Meryem Marzouki), followed by a discussion with the IRP coalition during its meeting of 18/11/2009. If accepted, this proposal will be the basis of the HR expert group work to produce the final charter, to be launched at IGF 2010.

 

Inputs to be taken into account, besides international human rights instruments and relevant literature:

-       IRP draft charter, as of 31^st December 2009 (main input):

(http://irc.wiki.apc.org/index.php/Charter_of_Human_Rights_and_Principles_on_the_Internet)

-       APC Charter: (http://www.apc.org/en/node/5677)

-       Free Culture Forum Coalition draft charter: (http://www.fcforum.net)

-       WSIS HR Caucus related documents, in particular the guideline for a HR approach

(http://www.iris.sgdg.org/actions/smsi/hr-wsis/hris-caucus-input.pdf)

-       International Symposium on the Information Society, Human Dignity and Human Rights Geneva: “Statement on Human Rights, Human Dignity and the Information Society”:

(http://www.iris.sgdg.org/actions/smsi/hr-wsis/pdhre-statement-en.html)

-       Other inputs if found relevant by the HR expert group in the course of the process.

 

Timeline:

-       Until 31^st December 2009: further edits and comments by IRP members and agreement on the HR expert group work program (methodology and milestones). IRP representatives should provide last version (as of 31^st December) of IRP charter to HR expert group.

-       From 1^st January to 25 April 2010: HR expert group develop a first draft of the charter

-       EuroDIG 2010 (29-30 April 2010, Madrid): first round of comments by IRP coalition and other EuroDIG participants. Subject to feasibility: organize a closed HR experts, organizations and institutions meeting.

-       From 1^st May to 31^st May 2010: Consultation with other HR experts and HR organizations and institutions.

-       From 1^st June to 30 June 2010: HR expert group consolidates the draft

-       From 1^st July to 31^st August 2010: Latest (minor) comments by IRP coalition. Long period due to summer holidays. Synthesis of these comments to be provided to HR expert group by IRP representatives (this is needed given that only 10 days left for final consolidation)

-       From 1^st September to 10 September: HR expert group consolidates the draft with latest comments.

-       IGF 2010 (14-17 September 2010, Vilnius): public launch of the charter

 

 

Structure and Methodology:

-       Structure: the final outcome will focus on a) the substantive rights and b) their realization, however not within the current structure in two different sections (“rights” and “principles” in the current IRP draft charter). The problem with two sections is that they present rights and principles as different layers, whereas principles - within HR terminology - represent the foundation of rights. We understand that the coalition wish to address "implementation principles", and are optimistic that this may be accomplished within the proposed Matrix model below.

-       Methodology: the rough methodology, at this step, is to work using a matrix, where rights (article by article) are crossed with different layers (from physical to usage). The idea is to translate the rights while providing the requirements for their realization at each layer, a layer also corresponding to a category of actor. The requirements (the elements of the matrix) could be positive or negative, depending on the given right and the given layer. Moreover, the requirements could be of different kind: legal, economical, technical, behavioral, etc. Depending on progress, outcome and discussion results after the first round of consultations (April-May 2010), the IRP coalition could still consider working on implementation guidelines.

 

HR Expert Group:

-       Wolfgang Benedek (AT)

-       Rikke Frank  Joergensen (DK)

-       Meryem Marzouki (FR) – Group coordinator

-       Andrew Rens (ZA) – TBC (proposed by Anriette Esterhuysen)

-       Others experts from the South (Latin America, Asia) – Identification in process

 

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