[alt.wsis] Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] FW: CRIS statement to Social Movements Assembly

[Myriam Horngren]

Hi Meryem
It is online now on: http://www.crisinfo.org/ . it will be up in Spanish later on this evening or tomorrow. If you can translate into French we would circulate it as well as post it on the website as well.

Bestest,

Myriam

-----Original Message-----
From: Meryem Marzouki [mailto:marzouki at ras.eu.org] 
Sent: 01 February 2005 13:37
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Subject: [alt.wsis] Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] FW: CRIS statement to Social Movements Assembly

Hi Myriam,

Could you please let us know when this Statement will be on-line, and 
if translations are made available ? I'd like to add it to the special 
web page on "Tunisia and WSIS" maintained as part of the human right 
caucus web page 
(http://www.iris.sgdg.org/actions/smsi/hr-wsis/tunis.html).
Thanks,
Meryem

Le mardi, 1 fév 2005, à 10:46 Europe/Paris, Myriam Horngren a écrit :

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> Cc: Myriam Horngren
> Subject: CRIS statement to Social Movements Assembly
>
> CRIS Campaign statement for the Social Movements Assembly - FSM 2005
>
> Communications is a core theme at this year's World Social Forum. It is
> a
> core theme because the demand for a better, more equitable
> communications
> environment is emerging as the demand of a new social movement for
> communication rights.
>
> The information and communications sector has become a strategic part 
> of
> the
> global market economy. It is a sector characterised by gross 
> imbalances:
> increasing concentration of the media, information property rules that
> favour the big corporations, privatisation of the means of
> communication,
> and new technologies of mass surveillance.
>
> There is a growing communications divide between one third of the
> world's
> population with the power to communicate globally, instantaneously and
> the
> other two thirds who barely have access to electricity and for whom the
> Internet is an unknown world.
>
> The campaign for Communication Rights in the Information Society (CRIS)
> believes that communication is a fundamental human right and is
> mobilizing
> around a common agenda for action and has identified a series of
> communication rights priorities for 2005.
>
> 1. We are committed to defending and affirming our communication rights
> and
> freedoms. In the context of the World Summit on the Information Society
> we
> call for a campaign to put the spotlight on communication rights in
> Tunisia,
> the host country for the 2005 Summit. The Tunisian government
> systematically
> violates rights of access to information, freedom of expression, 
> freedom
> of
> association, and respect for privacy.
>
> 2. We are committed to defend communication rights against the harmful
> impact of global free trade and to promote respect for cultural and
> media
> diversity.  We therefore support proposals, under debate in UNESCO, for
> a
> strong international convention to promote and defend cultural
> diversity. We
> will vigorously oppose attempts to include the cultural and media 
> sector
> in
> World  Trade Organisation and other free trade agreements.
>
> 3. We call on social movements to work with us in building a
> communication
> rights movement from the bottom up. We invite local and grassroots
> organisations to join with us to build networks and alliances at
> national,
> regional and international levels to defend and promote communication
> rights.
>
> Calendar of Action
>
> We call on social movements to mobilise around the World Summit on the
> Information Society in Tunis in 16-18 November 2005, to assert "another
> communication is possible" and to defend freedom of expression and 
> human
> rights in Tunisia.
>
> We call on social movements to support a strong convention on cultural
> diversity and to mobilise against the inclusion of culture and media in
> international free trade agreements. We look to build alliances with
> other
> social movements in this struggle, in particular to resist information
> becoming a commodity under the  WTO-GATs-IPR regime.
>
> Dates of particular importance include the UNESCO General Assembly in
> October, WTO Ministerial Meeting Hong Kong December 2005, Summit of the
> Americas, Argentina, November 2005.
>
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