[WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [WSIS-CT] Fw: final version of press release

[Adam Peake]

Hope this oversight will be corrected.

Civil society must support people with disabilities.  They have been 
missing from too many of our declarations and statments.

Recall the press relase, re-issue it.  Just include PWD.

Thanks,

Adam



At 8:17 PM +0900 9/26/03, Hiroshi Kawamura wrote:
>FYI
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Hiroshi Kawamura" <hkawa at attglobal.net>
>To: <bureau at geneva2003.org>
>Cc: "Monthian Buntan" <mbuntan at anet.net.th>
>Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 8:12 PM
>Subject: Re: final version of press release
>
>
>>  WHY PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES ARE IGNORED?
>>
>>  Even the Draft Declaration of Principles includes People with
>disabilities.
>>  CS MUST not put 600,000,000 people with disabilities in "etc".
>>
>>  I strongly protest the current Press Release and propose to include
>"persons
>>  with disabilities" immediately after the "Indigenous peoples" in para 2 of
>>  the release.
>>
>>  Hiroshi Kawamura
>>  Disability Focal Point
>>
>>  ----- Original Message -----
>>  From: "Beatriz Busaniche" <busaniche at caminandoutopias.org.ar>
>>  To: <bureau at geneva2003.org>
>>  Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 9:11 AM
>>  Subject: final version of press release
>>
>>
>>  > Text of press release
>>  > 27 September 2003
>>  >
>>  > WSIS process at PrepCom III
>>  >
>>  > Civil Society announces today that if governments continue to exclude
>our
>>  > principles, we will not lend legitimacy to the final official WSIS
>>  documents.
>>  >
>>  > Civil society is already shaping information societies to achieve
>social,
>>  > cultural, educational, political, and economic benefits for all.
>>  > Communication rights are part of human rights. Human rights must be the
>>  > framework for information societies. Without this, the WSIS vision of
>"an
>>  > information society" is meaningless.
>>  >
>>  > In the WSIS process, we have seen that, thus far, our main principles
>are
>>  > not reflected in the results. Even though the process has been
>frustrating
>>  > and inconsistent, with civil society included and excluded at the whim
>of
>>  > governments, our experience has been one of closer engagement than has
>>  been
>>  > the case at other United Nations conferences.  We hope that this is an
>>  > experience that can be built on to ensure much closer involvement of
>civil
>>  > society in the design and development of information societies.
>>  >
>>  > While the spirit of the documents is market focused, civil society and
>  > some
>  > > governments, especially from the south, will continue to support the
>  > rights
>  > > of citizenship and promote the concept of cooperation instead of
>  > > competition.
>  > > Even if the outcomes of the WSIS do not reflect, at the end of the
>>  process,
>>  > our principles, visions and perspectives, we will continue to be key
>>  actors
>>  > in the definition of the nature and direction of information societies,
>>  one
>>  > whose focus would be people's rights. We will insist that the proposal
>of
>>  > the WSIS includes our priorities such as development and justice for the
>>  > south, human rights, gender equity, community media, education, public
>>  > goods, free software and open access to scientific and technological
>>  > information, privacy, democratic and transparent internet governance,
>>  > cultural and linguistic diversity, excluded minorities, indigenous
>people,
>>  > etc.
>>  >
>>  > We now have a stronger position, because as the days have progressed
>>  > meaningful communication has emerged. But much remains to be done.  For
>>  our
>>  > part, civil society, we are now in the process of drafting a framework
>>  > document that will lay down our vision of inclusive, participatory,
>>  > sustainable, equitable and just information societies.
>>  >
>>  >
>>  > --
>>  > Beatriz Busaniche
>>  > busaniche at caminandoutopias.org.ar
>>  > www.caminandoutopias.org.ar
>>  >
>>  >
>>
>
>
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