Hi,
I find a human rights policy based on major human rights documents of the
world very conflicting and equally amusing in an organization which grows
itself in an inherently exploitative system feeding on volunteer works.
While volunteers from around the world, who generate contents and
technologies every day, build partnerships to gather more human knowledge,
man different committees to make important decisions for the movement and
so on and without whom the Wikimedia movement would not exist at all, are
not remunerated in any way, forget ensuring minimum wage for their time and
effort or social protection, medical care etc. and the organization which
collects weath based on these people's works talk about Universal
Declaration of Human Rights whose Articles 23 and 25 say about right to
just and favorable remuneration, social protection, equal pay for equal
work etc. I would be very interested to see if this policy, mentioned as
North Star, can guide the movement addressing the conflicting and
complicated issue w.r.t. human rights in the future.
Regards,
Bodhisattwa
On Thu, Dec 9, 2021, 20:55 Richard Gaines <rgaines(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hello,
The Wikimedia Foundation’s Global Advocacy team is excited to announce the
approval of the Human Rights Policy
<https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Human_Rights_Policy#Frequently_Asked_Questions>
by the Board of Trustees on 8 December 2021. Please read our blog post
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/12/09/what-the-wikimedia-foundations-new-human-rights-policy-means-for-our-movement/>
about the policy and what it means for the Wikimedia Foundation’s work in
the coming years on Diff. We invite you to join representatives of the
Foundation’s Global Advocacy and Human Rights teams here
<http://meet.google.com/wio-vdkw-phd> for a conversation hour tomorrow,
10 December, at 10:00 AM ET (15:00 UTC) to address any immediate concerns,
questions, or suggestions regarding this policy or how it will be
implemented. The session will be recorded for later viewing and you may
submit questions by email to myself (rgaines(a)wikimedia.org) and Ziski
Putz (zputz(a)wikimedia.org) ahead of or following the conversation hour.
Additional conversation hours on this policy will be made available in the
coming weeks.
Best regards,
--
*Ricky Gaines *(he/him/his)
Senior Manager, Advocacy Audiences
Wikimedia Foundation
rgaines(a)wikimedia.org
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