[NCSG-Discuss] On Diversity and Discrimination

[Edward Morris]

ICANN has multiple lawsuits in play involving the adult entertainment
industry. I think it would be fantastic to have a civil society
organisation representing sex workers to draw upon if the issues involved
in the lawsuits percolate down to our level.

Ed

On Sunday, February 3, 2013, David Cake wrote:

> Industry organisations for commercial operators are not within our
> charter, but advocacy organisations are.
> Cheers
>         David
>
> On 04/02/2013, at 1:27 PM, Andrew A. Adams <aaa at meiji.ac.jp <javascript:;>>
> wrote:
>
> > You wrote:
> >> I have friends who run sex worker activism NGOs (including one that is
> >> sex worker run by charter). Next time I see them I'll ask if they want
> >> to join NCUC. I think they'd be perfectly welcome here, and would fit
> >> in, but I'm not sure how much of a policy priority ICANN issues might
> >> be for them (but hey, .xxx, IFFOR, legal restrictions on advertising
> >> in some jurisdictions, etc - maybe they do have enough to justify
> >> their participation, I don't know).�
> >
> > I'm not sure all of these fall within our charter. Remember, there's a
> rider
> > preventing non-profit organisations that are just representatives of
> > for-profits (e.g. Chambers of Commerce) from joining NCSG.
> >
> > --
> > Professor Andrew A Adams                      aaa at meiji.ac.jp<javascript:;>
> > Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration,  and
> > Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics
> > Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan       http://www.a-cubed.info/
> >
> >
>
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