Re: [hr-wsis] HR caucus co-organizer of the WFCR

["Loreto" <a.loreto@ceu.it>]

Dear Meryem,

I think this is very important and we should not forget of ways to prevent
violations to happen and therefore of  Human Rights Education.
I could ask professors Michele Trimarchi and Luciana Luisa Papeschi, the
coPresidents of our Centre, if you agree, to participate as speakers. As you
maybe know they have been nominated to  this year UN Human Rights Prize for
their work to give scientific validity to human rights principles.
Should you need more information, please visit our websites: www.ceu.it and
www.dirittiumaniipv.org.
Best regards

Angelamaria Loreto

----- Original Message -----
From: "Meryem Marzouki" <marzouki@ras.eu.org>
To: <hr-wsis@iris.sgdg.org>
Cc: "Sean Siochru" <sean@nexus.ie>
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 2:13 PM
Subject: [hr-wsis] HR caucus co-organizer of the WFCR


> Hi all,
>
> As most of you might be aware, one of the major events organized
> alongside (see http://www.wsis-online.net/event/) with WSIS first phase
> in Geneva, is the World Forum on Communication Rights (WFCR), organized
> by the CRIS campaign on December 11th at Palexpo.
> More information on WFCR is at: http://www.communicationrights.org/
>
> The WFCR focuses on 4 themes, which are:
> - Communication and Poverty
> - Communication, Conflicts and Peace
> - Communication, Copyright, Patents and Trade
> - Communication and Human Rights
>
> The HR caucus has been asked to be a partner of this event, and to
> organize the "Communication and Human Rights" track. This is a great
> opportunity to make HR issues more visible during WSIS, specially since
> they can be linked, through WFCR, to other important issues related to
> communication and also since, to speak frankly, it would have been
> difficult to organize an event by ourselves.
> I hope you welcome this idea.
>
> A rough description that has been provided to CRIS for the overall
> presentation fo the forum is the following;
> "Communication and Human Rights: Its role not only in freedom of
> expression and privacy, but in all human rights, from the right to a
> fair trial and freedom of movement, to freedom of assembly and workers'
> rights, together with democratic governance".
>
> The format for all tracks would be more or less the same, with of
> course some flexibility. The WFCR organizing committee suggests the
> following for each session track (1h30 to 2h00 maximum, most probably
> 1h30):
>
> - Keynote speaker opens the session briefly (10-15mn)
> - One presentation that gives a quick overview of Communication within
> the theme (10-15mn)
> - and/or testimonies (what is going on on the ground, either by
> witnesses or through multimedia presentation)
> - Then a panel of 3-4 people which will frame communication rights in
> the structural circumstances that make the situation that has been
> presented possible.
>
> As I already had the opportunity to discuss with some HR caucus
> representatives in Geneva, it appears that it wouldn't be really
> appropriate to separate "witnesses" from "theorists", and we could
> preferably have a larger panel including testimonies and discussions on
> structural circumstances.
> Any idea on possible multimedia installation, less "conference-like",
> would be most welcome.
>
> Regarding keynote speaker, the first obvious option is Mary Robinson,
> who has been informally approached already. We're waiting for an
> answer. She must be very busy, specially since the day before (December
> 10th) is the 55th anniversary of UDHR. So we need an option 2, with a
> well known name.
>
> Regarding panelists, some names already come to mind (from countries
> with difficult situation Re: human rights, from indigenous people,
> etc.), but first we should clearly identify the content of the session.
>
> First, we have to limit ourselves, not trying to raise all HR issues in
> details. In addition, this session shouldn't overlap with other
> sessions as well as with themes specifically highlighted by other
> events (e.g. there will be a panel on labor rights organized by ILO,
> another one on indigenous people, etc. list of events is at:
> www.wsis-online/event).
>
> We also need to identify a main thread to make the session coherent,
> with different illustrations. I can propose two of them, and I'm
> willing to have your comments and perhaps other suggestions:
>
> - 1st possible thread: "privatisation of rights" and social control
> converging agendas
> - 2nd possible thread: human rights (true or false) conflicts raised by
> the use of ICTs, i.e. human dignity vs. freedom of expression, freedom
> of of information, ...,  right to information vs. privacy, right to
> safety vs. privacy, etc.
>
> But let's discuss the whole idea before going on.
>
> Meryem
>
>
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