Re: Meeting of Human Rights Organizations and NGOs at WSIS PrepCom 2

[Meryem Marzouki <marzouki@ras.eu.org>]

Hi all,

Many thanks to Karen for disseminating the information.
Yes, there is already a 'Human Rights in the information society' 
caucus, which is existing since PrepCom1. BTW, inputs from the HR Caucus 
has been sent to the content and themes group to be included in the 
civil society document. Contact persons for this caucus are :

- Meryem Marzouki (IRIS, France) - Meryem.Marzouki@iris.sgdg.org
- Rikke Frank Jorgensen (Digital Rights, Denmark) - rfj@humanrights.dk

The caucus web page is at: http://www.iris.sgdg.org/actions/smsi/hr-wsis
There is also a mailing list for this caucus.

We had a meeting last Friday in Geneva, which was also attended by NGOs 
who have expressed the willing to join. The caucus is open, and 
currently expanding. Interested parties should first look at the caucus 
web page to check the objectives and current members of the caucus, then 
send an email to join to the contact persons.

Rikke and myself have already left Geneva, and minutes of the Friday 
meeting, where we discussed strategies for the next future, will be soon 
sent to the list. New members will also appear soon on the web page 
(some of the recipient of this email have already expressed their 
willing to join).

Best regards,
Meryem

Le lundi 24 février 2003, à 10:53 PM, karen banks a écrit :

> hi robert and all
>
> You are aware of the Human rights cacucus which meryem marzouki is 
> coordinating?.. it met last firday, but not sure if it's meeting again..
>
> karen
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> At 11:34 24/02/2003 +0100, Robert Guerra wrote:
>> Over the past few days there has been a request to convene a meeting 
>> of Human Rights related organizations and NGOs who are in Geneva for 
>> PrepCom2 of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
>>
>>
>> Is there a convient time this week which we could all meet to exchange 
>> views and strategies regarding Human Rights in the context of WSIS?
>>
>> regards
>>
>> Robert
>>
>>
>> ###
>> Robert Guerra <rguerra@privaterra.org>
>> Privaterra - Securing Human Rights
>> <http://www.privaterra.org>
>>
>> Privacy is a critical element of a free society "it is at the heart of
>> liberty in a modern state", Justice La Forest , Canadian Supreme Court
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