[WSIS CS-Plenary] Desai to Civil Society: What Summit Were You at?

[Adam Peake]

Albert, Jean-Louis.

Thanks very much for the clarification.  I wasn't paying enough 
attention during the last plenary.

Adam



>Hi Adam
>During our last CS plenary during the Summit (Friday afternoon, Room C) we
>were informed of the events that happened outside of Palexpo and about the
>behaviour of the Swiss police face to people peacefully manifesting for the
>same issues we dealt with since the WSIS beginning. I therefore asked the
>Bureau to protest energically against that. The Plenary backed my proposal
>quasi unanimously. Susanna and myself volonteered to work out a press
>release following this decision, with the assistance of a couple of young
>people who testified what they lived during the manifestation.
>I do believe that this press release was necessary and a quite "natural"
>expression of our solidarity to the peaceful manifesting people. If we miss
>that there is neither need nor reason for CS WSIS organisation entailing a
>"Human rights Caucus" and discussing their different ways of expression and
>application in an IS.
>Furthermore I'd like to add that if CS wants to be consistent with itself
>and witness its credibility and respectability, we must be very rigourous in
>democratic countries in the "North" before we want to condemn threats for
>civil rights in "the South" and especially in Tunesia.
>I'm sure Adam that you'll agree on these explanations.
>Sorry for having been too long and for my approximative english
>Jean-Louis Fullsack
>CSDPTT
>
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>From: "Adam Peake" <ajp at glocom.ac.jp>
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>at?
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>>Desai to Civil Society: What Summit Were You at??
>>At the closing press conference for the World Summit on the Information
>>Society, UN Special Advisor to the Secretary-General Nitin Desai voiced
>>pointed skepticism over civil society's lambasting of the Summit's
>>treatment of protesters and alternative media. Civil Society
>>representatives had released a statement criticizing the authorities for
>  >the way they've handled the protestors: "We strongly condemn these
>  >violations of the right to assemble and freedom of expression that have
>  >cast a shadow of hypocrisy over the summit."
>
>
>Did we release a press statement after the final plenary on Friday
>afternoon?  Bit confused about what was said, where the quote comes
>from.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Adam
>
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