[WSIS CS-Plenary] Should Canada go to Wsis 2 in Tunis?

[Meryem Marzouki]

Hi Rony and all,

Let me just make something clearer:

Le jeudi, 12 mai 2005, à 13:21 Europe/Paris, Ronald Koven a écrit :

> The leading Tunisian freedom of expression NGOs have urged their 
> foreign
> counterparts to support them by continuing their pressures on the 
> Tunisian
> government and by attending WSIS II, viewing it as an opportunity to 
> press
> the Tunisian government to change its repressive policies.

In fact the position of Tunisian independent NGOs is that they have 
indeed urged their foreign counterparts to support them by continuing 
their pressures on the Tunisian governement and by participating to 
WSIS II process (no boycott of the preparatory process). However, it 
has been publicly announced by them that PrepCom3 in next september is 
the deadline to assess if there have been enough progress made on the 
HR situation in Tunisia (especially with regards to 
criteria/recommendations of Tunisian independent NGOs themeselves, 
shared by missions organized by both IFEX-TMG and ICHRRD/FIDH/OMCT. 
This assessment will help everyone (form CS or governement) makes its 
own decision regarding WSIS II Summit of November, and make public this 
decision.

Tunisian independent NGO demands are at:
[EN]: 
http://www.iris.sgdg.org/actions/smsi/hr-wsis/resol-TN-0105-en.html
[FR]: 
http://www.iris.sgdg.org/actions/smsi/hr-wsis/resol-TN-0105-fr.html
[SP]: 
http://www.iris.sgdg.org/actions/smsi/hr-wsis/resol-TN-0105-es.html

IFEX-TMG recommendations can be found at:  http://www.ifex.org

ICHRRD/FIDH/OMCT recommendations can be found at: http://www.fidh.org

Meryem

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