Dear Fernando,
The United Nations adheres to a set of fundamental Human Rights Treaties as the backbone for all issues related to human rights, rule of law and democracy.
In principle these are reflected in all international treaties including UNCAC.
Participatory democracy is based on a trias politica with a varying number of legal instruments and other recourses for checks and balances.
In matters where decisions have to be made votes must be carried by a majority, but the will of the people at large is expressed through polls, referenda and other consultative events where all the people cast ballots.
Being a bearer of a European Union passport, Dutch of nationality and Caribbean/Latin American in terms of residence I must stress the need to tread carefully.
Our task as the WG as I see it,is to come up with a constitution for the Coalition with some additional documents which must be put to the vote by all members of the Coalition.
Our work should reflect at all times the best intention to capture all the essence required to run the coalition in a way which best meets the set mission and objectives, while at the same time guaranteeing the highest level of internal integrity and transparency towards the outside world.
In short we must practice what we preach to the outside world.
We must not overstep the task we set ourselves, we volunteered to do this but were not elected to do so by the UNCAC Coalition at large.
So the best we can come up with is a set of documents, procedures etc. where based on consensus, which may include casting votes where deemed necessary, but in the end the final word will be up to all the current members of the UNCAC Coalition.
I admire your drive to stick to rules and procedures, but bear in mind that participatory democracy is much more than just that.
So in the current tasks we have set ourselves we are allowed a bit more flexibility, the end products decided upon by the general body of all UNCAC Coalition members we can be more rigid.
The point I am trying to make that we cannot expect with 100% certainty to reach a majority outcome vote on every single issue we may want to vote on at this stage, some final votes may have to be settled by all the members.
Milton Ponson, President
Rainbow Warriors Core Foundation
(Rainbow Warriors International)
Tel. +297 568 5908
PO Box 1154, Oranjestad
Aruba, Dutch Caribbean
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--- On Sun, 8/29/10, Fernando Di Lascio <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Fernando Di Lascio <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: RES: Coalition Basic Document
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Sunday, August 29, 2010, 10:58 AM
Dear fellows of the WG - CC.
As I see it, in a WG as
ours, a fundamental principle must prevail: The will of the majority.
Thus, each chapter of the
document on which the Coalition, and the rules for the election of the
Coordination Committee - CC will have to be approved by the majority. Firstly
in our WG and then in the Coalition.
Therefore, criterias and
dates for the vote of each stage can and should be established.
Best
wishes,
Fernando
De: Coalition WG on Coordination Committee
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] Em nome de Gillian Dell
Enviada em: domingo, 29 de agosto de 2010 08:02
Para: [log in to unmask]
Assunto: Re: Coalition Basic Document
Hallo WG members,
It's
great to see so many ideas flowing for our constitutive document. I hope there
is not a problem with Amalia's email--Amalia could you advise about the message
below?
In
terms of keeping track of the WG discussion, please note that there are
currently six main documents as grouped below:
(i)
Original draft that was circulated by me
(ii)
Ifthekar's, Fernando's and Robert's proposed revisions to that draft
(iii)
Eric's proposed additional core principles
(iv)
Elina's suggested additional vision and values
In
addition, I've received a positive feedback from Maud as well as some comments
and proposed revisions from Oluajo.
Further,
Milton has raised the important issue of languages and referenced some
CIVICUS standards, which I think might better be addressed in subsequent sections--but I'm
happy to look at any suggested text for the section we are currently working
on.
(Please
let me know if I left someone out.)
As a proposed next step, I
suggest that I take these and any other comments received by Tuesday and
incorporate them into a REVISED draft segment-- including annotations or
accompanying commentary-- and circulate this section to the WG again at the end
of the discussion process, in the fourth week, along with revisions to other
parts of the document that we will be discussing.
I
suggest that we also add a week to the timetable to allow for a full
discussion of the final draft prior to the discussion of Next steps.
Does
that sound like it would work?
Best
wishes,
Gillian
From:
Coalition WG on Coordination Committee on behalf of Kostanyan Amalia
Sent: Sun 29/08/2010 11:33
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Legitimate Transparency and Accountablity in CSO networks
Chem nayel, bayc karogh e henc dra masine, vor menq verjers
khosum einq.
From: Coalition WG on Coordination Committee
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of CorruptionWatchAruba
Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 9:03 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Legitimate Transparency and Accountablity in CSO networks
Civicus, a
global civil society organizations' watchdog has developed guidelines for
Legitimate Transparency and Accountability for CSOs and CSO networks.
See:
http://lta.civicus.org/component/content/article/48-legitimacy-accountabilit%20y-and-transparency-guideline
and LTA Home: http://lta.civicus.org/.
Good idea to take a look at these and make sure we stick to the same
guidelines.
Milton Ponson, President
Rainbow Warriors Core Foundation
(Rainbow Warriors International)
Tel. +297 568 5908
PO Box 1154, Oranjestad
Aruba, Dutch Caribbean
Email: [log in to unmask]
CorruptionWatch Aruba is
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International, focusing on monitoring the rule of law, functioning and
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