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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-NZ link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi all – just following up the NCUC Costa Rica meeting, some comments on this list and some reflections we’ve been doing in APC …  below is a summary of our constituency discussions and, from what I can glean, a few areas of rough consensus that are emerging:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>         </span></span></span><![endif]>There are opportunities in ICANN’s public policy development processes to bring in human rights analyses. However, it was strongly pointed out in the NCSG meeting in Costa Rica that ICANN cannot and must not make human rights policy. Rather, it should be assisted to make human rights compliant policy. Any proposal for ICANN to be a human rights policy making body was, rightly, very firmly resisted. Reaction to the idea of human rights impact assessments was raised at the joint GNSO GAC meeting with a cautious but not cold reception. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><u>Taking the idea forward<o:p></o:p></u></p><p class=MsoNormal>Avri noted that several years ago attempts were made to get human rights impact analysis done at the start of every PDP. In the end, a general rights impact analysis was included in the revised PDP guidelines which means that for every PDP issue paper that comes out, there needs to be rights analysis, which can include human rights.  Such papers will be released in initial form with a comment period and this provides a chance for groups and individuals to submit their own human rights analysis into the mix. The objectives our strategy and related activities could be:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=Textbody style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>         </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Increased understanding of different approaches to assessing human rights and development impacts of ICANN public policy <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Textbody style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>         </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Improved knowledge of how the human rights approach relates to ICANN public policy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Textbody style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>         </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Increased number of ICANN policies that are human rights compliant<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Textbody style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>         </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Support for NCUC, NCSG and improved constituency/network relationships<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><u>Suggested next steps: <o:p></o:p></u></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>         </span></span></span><![endif]>Identify who is interested and has time to help develop this in NCUC – and NCSG generally<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>         </span></span></span><![endif]>Choose an issue on which to make a strategic intervention - there are at least two or three issues on the policy programme that seem to have a strong human rights flavour:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:72.0pt;text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