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Call for a just transition movement in Europe

July 4th, 2010

System change, not climate change!
A just transition towards a good life for all

European Social Forum, Istanbul, 4 July 2010

The newspapers may speak of financial and economic crises, but when we look around ourselves, we don’t see derivates and financial markets – what we see is the destruction [...] Continue Reading…

European Networks

CALL TO ACTION: Regulate Global Finance Now!

June 15th, 2010

The global financial crisis is spilling over into our lives, threatening jobs, savings, pensions and public services everywhere! Today’s crisis isn’t just another economic downturn – it’s a systemic crisis bursting across the globe: a crisis of unregulated financial markets driven by neoliberal ideology that have sold out long-term [...] Continue Reading…

European Networks

Statement of the “Forum Social Europe–European Network of Trade Unionists”

June 10th, 2010

“Forum Social Europe – European Network of Trade Unionists” (FSE) met in Brussels on 9-10 June to discuss the political and social consequences of the economic crisis in Europe and the need for trade unions and other social forces to respond.

The meeting heard reports from a number of [...] Continue Reading…

European Networks

The people’s ‘Saarc’ (By Kuldip Nayar)

April 30th, 2010

The Saarc (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) summit will be over by the time these lines appear in print. But we can say that it was another attempt to scale the mountain of difficulties.

The 15th people’s Saarc meeting was held in Delhi recently to impress upon the [...] Continue Reading…

Asia

People’s SAARC Conference held in New Delhi on 21-23 April 2010

April 26th, 2010

Press Release

26 April 2010, New Delhi

Some 300 people from across South Asia from social movements, civil society organisations, labour unions, peasant organisations, women’s groups, ecologists and human rights activists gathered in New Delhi from 20th April to 23rd April, 2010 as part of the process of a ’Peoples SAARC’ [...] Continue Reading…

People’s SAARC (South Asia)

People’s SAARC Declaration (April 2010, New Delhi)

April 26th, 2010

We the members of social movements, civil society organizations, labour unions, peasant movements, other working people’s organizations and women’s groups have gathered here in Delhi from 20th April to 23rd April, 2010 as part of the process of Peoples SAARC to forge a vision for a [...] Continue Reading…

People’s SAARC (South Asia)

Statement on Bhutanese Refugees’ Right to Repatriation

April 26th, 2010

People’s SAARC 2010

Seminar on the Right to Repartition of Bhutanese Refugees: Sharing testimonies by Bhutanese refugees with south Asian representatives

25-26 April 2010, Birtamod, Jhapa, Nepal

Organized by: South Asia Alliance for Poverty Eradication (SAAPE) and the Bhutanese  Refugees Repatriation Committee

We, more than 50 Bhutanese refugees representing all seven refugee camps [...] Continue Reading…

People’s SAARC (South Asia)

‘Rivers, people and climate change in South Asia’

April 23rd, 2010

Statement to the plenary meetings of Assembly towards Union of South Asian Peoples held at New Delhi on 22-23 April 2010

South Asian countries share a number of rivers with each other and with other nations beyond the region. It is evident that current water technologies adopted by governments such [...] Continue Reading…

Asia

Statement Adopted by Trade Unions from South Asia, 21 April 2010

April 21st, 2010

A South Asia labour movement interaction workshop was organised on as part of broader People’s SAARC summit held in New Delhi from the 21-23 April 2010. Posted below is the full text of the statement adopted at the meeting of trade unions on the 21st April 2010

Constitution Club, New [...] Continue Reading…

People’s SAARC (South Asia)

SAPSN Statement on the Climate Crisis

April 19th, 2010

25 March 2010, Windhoek

Climate change is one of the biggest catastrophes facing humankind as result of unsustainable economic growth and consumption and production patterns, largely from the GLOBAL NORTH. The dominant economic growth paradigm is turning the earth into a hostile environment with increasing droughts, floods, water-scarcity and [...] Continue Reading…

SAPSN (Southern Africa)