Dear colleagues, We are writing to seek your organisation's signature for a joint civil society letter https://crm.ishr.ch/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=379&qid=47521 defending a strong Human Rights Council resolution on civil society space. The letter is attached.
As you may be aware, Chile, Ireland, Japan, Sierra Leone, & Tunisia have proposed a draft resolution on protecting and promoting civil society space at the 32nd Session of the UN Human Rights Council. It was developed through broad consultation with States and civil society and in the past was adopted by consensus. The draft resolution is based on the UN High Commissioner's report on civil society space https://crm.ishr.ch/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=381&qid=47521 , and highlights the important role civil society actors play in contributing to peace and security, human rights and sustainable development. It also includes a number of positive measures on promoting and protecting civic space and requests OHCHR to develop a report on the participation of civil society across the UN and regional and international organisations. The letter will be updated tomorrow lunchtime, to react to an expected attack on the resolution from some states, aimed at weakening the resolution. Advanced sign-on ensures a swift and collective voice against this attack on the resolution, and in support of the UN taking action to defend civil society space. We invite you to sign on using this link, provided by ISHR, which has initiated this letter with ARTICLE19: https://crm.ishr.ch/en/civicrm/event/register?reset=1&id=79 (please do not reply to this email to sign, but use the link only). We intend to *circulate a final letter to signatory organisatons by 4 PM on 28 June 2016*. Organisations that sign on now, which we encourage, will have a period of 2 hours to opt-out once the letter is finalised. We intend to send the letter to States in the evening of Tuesday, 28 June. For any questions, contact Andrew at Article 19 (and...@article19.org) or Michael at ISHR (m.ineic...@ishr.ch). Thank you and kind regards, Niels -- Niels ten Oever Head of Digital Article 19 www.article19.org PGP fingerprint 8D9F C567 BEE4 A431 56C4 678B 08B5 A0F2 636D 68E9 -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
