[WSIS CS-Plenary] Shirin Ebadi Nomination - Deadline for supports

[Laina Raveendran Greene]

Good ideas Jacqueline and Conchita, offering ideas from the caucuses but
leaving it up to the speaker to pick up what she feels appropriate. To be
fair though to Ms Ebadi, this should apply to all CS speakers. We cannot put
the full burden on her to speak CS ideas. Perhaps we could share these
thoughts with all CS speakers, and hope some or all of them will pick up the
relevant points we feel should go through to governments. 

Laina 

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I agree with Jacqueline that each Caucus provide a brief for Ms. Ebadi so
that she will have a feel of what CS wants.  It will then be foro her to
pick and choose in order to have a commonb  thread that would run across her
statement.

conchita




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Vittorio
I agree with you - maybe the easiest way would be to prepare a
briefing paper for the speakers, that explains the issues and the CS
positions. Then we would have to trust them to speak appropriately.
Jacqueline

On 10/17/05, Vittorio Bertola <vb at bertola.eu.org> wrote:
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> KovenRonald at aol.com ha scritto:
> > Dear All --
> >
> > Everyone of us has his hobbyhorses, favorite essential topics. I think
> > it is really out of bounds for us to ask someone like Shirin Ebadi to
> > reflect them. She must be free to express what she thinks is important.
> > The authoritarian atmosphere of our limited version of "civil
> > society,"defining what is sayable and not sayable is getting truly
> > suffocating. It's time -- past time -- for us to tell people that they
> > are free to say what they think and decide for themselves what they
> > consider important.
>
> I think you are starting from a good point but getting to wrong
conclusions.
>
> I agree that we should not ask Ms. Ebadi to make her speech a collection
> of each group's pet issues; I actually said the same just a few days ago
> on a similar matter, when specific groups would require mention of their
> specific issues into a generic text. Moreover, you definitely can't
> treat such a high level person as if she were our spokesperson, hired to
> read someone else's speech.
>
> At the same time, people and organizations here have been spending four
> years of their lives pushing some specific issues and proposals, and the
> opening speech of the final Summit is an important chance to increase
> such push. Chances of success for civil society campaigns are directly
> related to the amount of coordination, unity and constant visibility
> that is given to our proposals. Thus it would be a disaster if Ms.
> Ebadi, in her autonomy, missed some vital points or even spoke against
> them - maybe just because we didn't have a chance to brief her on what
> has been going on in this process.
>
> The same applies to the other speakers, who - remember - are not there
> in their personal capacity, but speaking on behalf of the entire set of
> civil society participants. I wouldn't feel comfortable in hearing any
> of them, say, praising President Ben Ali for his benevolent attitudes to
> his people or taking stances that go against our own declaration of
> principles agreed in Geneva.
>
> I think that if we all are reasonable, we can find ways to preserve the
> delicate balance between the independent thoughts of an individual and
> his/her role as a representative of a much broader movement. For
> example, we might schedule briefing sessions in which they listen to
> everyone and present what they plan to say. We might ask them to post
> drafts of their speeches for public comment, some days in advance. We
> might map them to topics and ask them to subscribe to relevant caucuses
> to discuss the intervention in the next couple of weeks.
>
> I don't think these are unreasonable requests, nor attempts to "define
> what is sayable or not sayable" or censor our own speakers. But if we
> end up with 10 or 15 people going up to the lectern and saying just the
> first thing that came up in their minds, without any kind of
> coordination among themselves or with past activities, we will have
> missed a huge opportunity and done quite a bad job.
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