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[Myriam Horngren]

NEWSROOM

Women's human rights: violence against women, pornography and ICT
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approval of .xxx as a global top level domain for sexually explicit materials in the internet received murmurs of protest from several governments, particularly from Brazil and the United States.
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/955

NEWSROOM/WSIS PHASE 2/ SPECIAL PREPCOM

WSIS Prepcom 3 closes in disarray
30 September 2005.
The last preparatory conference, less than 60 days before the Tunis summit, ended tonight at 21:00 without an agreement. The open questions will have to be dealt with in the time before Tunis - and basically without civil society participation.
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/956

Prepcom 3: Futuro dudoso para sociedad civil
Por Gustavo Capdevila
GINEBRA, 20 sep (IPS) - Antes de finalizar la segunda fase de la Cumbre Mundial sobre la Sociedad de la Información en noviembre en Túnez, la sociedad civil sabrá el papel a cumplir en este proceso para abatir la brecha digital y democratizar las comunicaciones. Pero activistas ven nubarrones en el horizonte.
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/954

Statement on the contribution for document WSIS-II/PC-3/DT/10 (Chapter
Submitted by the Association for Progressive Communications (APC)
On behalf of the Informal Coalition on Financing ICTD
The Informal Coalition on Financing ICTD wishes to contribute its thoughts on Section 4 Measures to promote development of the Chair's excellent paper on Chapter 3 on Internet Governance. We focus our attention on points 56 and 57 on making Internet access affordable.
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/953

Prepcom 3: China Blocks Open Discussion at WSIS with Procedural Maneuvering
September 20, 2005
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and its member organization, Human Rights in China (HRIC), denounce the decision of the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS), a
process that claims to include the broadest possible participation, to block open discussion on supporting independent NGO voices.
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/951


NEWSROOM/WSIS [TUNISIA AND COMMUNICATION RIGHTS]

Ligue Tunisienne pour la défense des Droits de l'Homme: Conférence de presse à Genève
Tunis le, 29 septembre 2005
A l'occasion du Prepcom3 du Sommet Mondial de la Société d'Information (SMSI), une conférence de presse autour de la liberté de presse en Tunisie s'est tenue, lundi 26 septembre 2005 au Club de la presse à Genève.
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/947

U.N. Defends Having Tech Summit in Tunisia
By NICK WADHAMS
Associated Press Writer
September 28, 2005, 9:20 PM EDT
UNITED NATIONS -- Facing heated protest, the United Nations on Wednesday defended Tunisia's hosting of a U.N. summit about Internet access in the developing world, even though the north African nation has been repeatedly accused of rights abuses that include blocking Web sites it dislikes.
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/946

NGOs Complain of Summit Host Tunisia's Rights Record Gustavo Capdevila
GENEVA, Sep 28 (IPS) - One of the biggest clouds looming over the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) is the human rights record of Tunisia, which will host the second phase of the Summit, scheduled for Nov. 16-18.
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/952

Crédibilité des Nations Unies remise en question alors que le SMSI approche
Un communiqué de presse de l'IFEX-TMG
26 Septembre 2005
Des experts en liberté d'expression mettent en question la crédibilité d'un sommet mondial des Nations Unies sur la société de l'information en Tunisie
Genève - "La Tunisie n'est pas un endroit approprié pour organiser un sommet mondial des Nations Unies" d'après le dernier rapport du Groupe d'observation de la Tunisie (TMG) rendu public deux mois avant la tenue du Sommet Mondial sur la Société de l'Information (SMSI) à Tunis les 16, 17 et 18 novembre 2005.
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/949

Credibility of the UN in doubt as WSIS looms
Freedom of expression experts question credibility of UN World Summit on the Information Society in Tunisia.
26 September 2005, IFEX-TMG press release.
Geneva - "Tunisia is not a suitable place to hold a United Nations World Summit" according to the latest report of the Tunisia Monitoring Group (TMG) released two months before the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), scheduled to take place in Tunis, 16-18 November 2005.
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/950

Journalist Hamadi Jebali wages second hunger strike in five months
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), New York
23 September 2005
The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned about the health of imprisoned Tunisian journalist Hamadi Jebali, who has been on a hunger strike for eight days to protest 14 years of unjust imprisonment. CPJ today called for his immediate release.
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/948





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CRIS CHARTER
La Carta de CRIS
Nuestra visión de la Sociedad de la Información se fundamenta en el Derecho a Comunicar como un medio de acrecentar los derechos humanos y fortalecer la vida social, económica y cultural de las personas y las comunidades. Para lograrlo, resulta fundamental que las organizaciones de la sociedad civil se unan para cooperar en la construcción de una sociedad de la información basada en principios de transparencia, diversidad, participación, justicia social y económica, e inspiradas por la equidad de género y la perspectivas culturales y regionales.
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La Charte de CRIS
Notre vision de la «société de l'information» est basée sur le droit de communiquer qui est considéré comme un moyen pour étendre les droits de l'homme et améliorer la vie sociale, économique et culturelle des personnes et des communautés. Pour cela, il est essentiel que les organisations de la société civile se réunissent afin d'aider à la construction d'une société de l'information basée sur les principes de transparence, de diversité, de participation et de justice économique et sociale et inspirée par une approche équitable du rapport des sexes, de la culture et des aspects régionaux.
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The CRIS Charter
Our vision of the 'Information Society' is grounded in the Right to Communicate, as a means to enhance human rights and to strengthen the social, economic and cultural lives of people and communities. Crucial to this is that civil society organisations come together to help build an information society based on principles of transparency, diversity, participation and social and economic justice, and inspired by equitable gender, cultural and regional perspectives.
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