Re: [hr-wsis] Please sign-on - Letter to OHCHR

[BAUDOUIN SCHOMBE <sam_bj2000@yahoo.fr>]

MERYEM,

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Adminstration Council.

PROMOCULTURE/CENTRE AFRICAIN d'ECHANGE CULTUREL








 --- Meryem Marzouki <marzouki@ras.eu.org> a écrit : >
Please sign-on the letter to the OHCHR, now that we
> all agreed that:
> 1/ The letter would be sent to Deputy High
> Commission
> 2/ The sentence "Like all scientific innovations,
> information 
> communications technologies in themselves are
> value-neutral" would be 
> removed
> 3/ The reference to repression would be added,
> following the remark by 
> Christine (OMCT) which nobody seemed to disagree
> with
> 
> In case we gathered enough signatures from the Hr
> caucus members, I 
> propose that this letter be presented as a common
> initiative from the 
> WFM and the HR caucus.
> 
> Members of the HR caucus who already signed:
> - CMIC
> - Danish Institute for Human Rights
> - Digital Rights Denmark
> - IRIS
> - OMCT
> 
> Please other members tell us if your organization
> would sign, and 
> please gather other organizations signatures by,
> let's say, June 12.
> I'll circulate the text of this letter to the WSIS
> plenary list, and to 
> other organizations. Please also try to get other
> signatures with name 
> of the org, web site if any, contact person name and
> email.
> 
> Final text of the letter:
> June 2003
> 
> Bertrand Ramcharan
> Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights
> United Nations
> Geneva, Switzerland
> 
> RE: Human Rights and the World Summit on the
> Information Society
> 
> 
> Your Excellency Mr. Bertrand Ramchara:
> 
> The under-signed civil society organizations
> strongly encourage your 
> active participation in the preparatory committee
> and summit meeting of 
> the World Summit on the Information Society, taking
> place in September 
> and December 2003, respectively.  Human rights are
> an essential 
> requirement of the Information Society, as
> elaborated in the draft 
> declaration of the WSIS (WSIS/PCIP/DT/1-E):
> 
> 10. The essential requirements for the development
> of an equitable 
> Information Society include: The respect for all
> internationally 
> recognized human rights and fundamental freedoms.
> Notably the right to 
> freedom of opinion and expression, including the
> right to hold opinions 
> without interference and seek to, receive and impart
> information and 
> ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers
> in accordance with 
> article 19 of the UN Universal Declaration of Human
> Rights and to 
> unhindered access by individuals to communication
> media and information 
> sources…
> 
> As the United Nations highest human rights official,
> your good offices 
> are needed to ensure that human rights language in
> the WSIS process is 
> comprehensive, strong and consistent with
> resolutions and decisions 
> adopted by the Commission on Human Rights and build
> upon human rights 
> language developed through the various UN world
> summits and conferences.
> 
> Civil society organizations view ICTs as having both
> tremendous 
> applications that enhance human rights, such as
> through the rapid 
> dissemination of action alerts and instant access to
> human rights 
> information, and disturbing capacities to greatly
> diminish human 
> rights, such as by providing governments with means
> enabling intrusive 
> surveillance and monitoring and therefore,
> repression.
> 
> Only through the active participation of
> governments, civil society, 
> and international human rights institutions such as
> your Office can 
> these ICTs be best harnessed to maximize the
> protection of human rights 
> worldwide.
> 
> We thank you for your consideration of this request
> and look forward to 
> seeing you in September.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> 
> [under-signed NGOs]
> 
> 
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SCHOMBE BAUDOUIN 
ENSEIGNANT CHERCHEUR 
CONSULTANT 
COORDONATEUR REGIONAL 
PROMO-CULTURE/CENTRE AFRICAIN D'ECHANGE CULTUREL 
                             CULTURAL EXCHANGE AFRICAN CENTRE



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