[WSIS CS-Plenary] Please sign-on - Letter to OHCHR

[BAUDOUIN SCHOMBE]

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 --- Sacha Jotisalikorn <sacha at forumasia.org> a
écrit : > Hi Meryem,
> 
> Please add our endorsement:
> 
> Name of org: Forum-Asia
> Contact person: Sacha Jotisalikorn
> email: sacha at forumasia.org
> website: forumasia.org
> 
> On Thursday, June 5, 2003, at 03:38 PM, Meryem
> Marzouki wrote:
> 
> > [This is a call for signatures by NGOs]
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Below you will find a letter to the Deputy High
> Commissioner for Human 
> > Rights, Bertrand Ramcharan, to ask him to attend
> next PrepCom of the 
> > World Summit on the Information society (WSIS) and
> the Summit itself, 
> > in order "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.", as written in the letter.
> >
> > This letter is an initiative from Rik Panganiban
> from the World 
> > Federalist Movement, who submitted the proposal to
> the WSIS Human 
> > Rights caucus, coordinated by Rikke Frank
> Jorgensen from the Danish 
> > Institute for Human Rights and myself as IRIS
> representative (see the 
> > HR caucus website at:
> > http://www.iris.sgdg.org/actions/smsi/hr-wsis).
> >
> > After some modifications from HR caucus members,
> the final text of the 
> > letter has been agreed (see below).
> > Now we would like to gather as much signatures
> from organizations as 
> > possible, so that the letter can be seen as a
> strong demand.
> >
> > You are then asked to send signatures before the
> deadline of June 12. 
> > Please send them directly to me
> (marzouki at ras.eu.org), I'll post the 
> > final list here.
> > Please provide: name of the org, web site if any,
> contact person name 
> > and email.
> >
> > You don't need to be accredited to the Summit for
> that, not to have 
> > taken an active part in its process till now.
> >
> > Thanks you in advance,
> > Meryem Marzouki
> > HR caucus co-coordinator
> > =======
> > 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 Ramcharan:
> >
> > 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 hope the Office of the High Commissioner will
> become involved in 
> > this event and we look forward to our ongoing
> collaboration in 
> > ensuring that the World Summit on the Information
> Society has a strong 
> > human rights focus. In particular we are hoping
> that you personally 
> > will be able to attend the Third Prep Com, to take
> place in Geneva in 
> > September 15-27, 2003, and we look forward to
> meeting with you at that 
> > time. We also hope that the Office of the High
> Commissioner will be 
> > prominent in the deliberations of the Summit in
> December, and that we 
> > will harness the potential of information
> technology to serve the 
> > cause of human rights to the Summit in Tunisia and
> beyond.
> >
> > We look forward to your reply.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > [under-signed NGOs. 15 till now]
> >
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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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