Declaration
Building People’s Sovereignty in South East Asia Region
Refuse and Oppose the Domination of Global Capitalism
Denpasar, Bali, 16-18 November 2011

We, Indonesian people, representations of peasants, workers, migrant workers, fisher folk, indigenous people, women, students, urban poor, consumers, human rights activists, gather in Denpasar, Bali from 16-18 [...] Continue Reading…

ACSC/SAPA (South East Asia)

The Peoples’ SAARC delegates assembled in Maldives have submitted the “Memorandum” to the 17th official SAARC Summit being held in Addu City through the office of the President of the Maldives.

The memorandum is a common aspiration primed by the representatives of various civil society organizations in the region who [...] Continue Reading…

People’s SAARC (South Asia)

Eradicate Poverty and Injustices by Building Bridges and Connecting People
PEOPLES’ SAARC-2011
Press Release
November 10, 2011, Addu City, Maldives

The 17th South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) summit that is being held in Addu City, Maldives on 10-11 November, 2011 is expected to ink several deals covering the [...] Continue Reading…

People’s SAARC (South Asia)

People’s SAARC Assembly

Thiruvanathapuram Declaration

People’s Movements Uniting South Asia

9 November 2011

We, the participants of the People’s SAARC India Assembly 2011 met in Thiruvanathapuram on 8-9 November 2011 to affirm our commitment to justice, peace and democracy in the region. We also affirm and commit ourselves to the vision of [...] Continue Reading…

People’s SAARC (South Asia)

More than 80 advocacy groups and people’s organizations from across the

Southeast Asian region submitted letter-petitions for information disclosure to the ASEAN’s Committee of Permanent Representatives (CPR) and the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR). Citing important mandates from the ASEAN Charter, the groups requested the two bodies [...] Continue Reading…

Asia

European Conference

Austerity, Debt, Social Destruction in Europe: Stop!

Coordinate our Strengths – Democratic Alternatives are Necessary and Possible!

31 May 2011

in the European Parliament (Brussels) –

in partnership with the GUE/NGL Parliamentary Group

Conclusions

This conference reflects an emergency.

It took place at a time when the Euro crisis, the crisis of the EU, is deepening in [...] Continue Reading…

Activities organized by the regional networks

The euro crisis has become the occasion to set up a neoliberal “economic governance” which will impose austerity measures in the different European countries for the next years. At the same time, the European Commission will be given enormous power to implement burdensome financial sanctions [...] Continue Reading…

European Networks

Regional Economic and Financial Cooperation Amidst Crisis:

Initiatives in Asia, Latin America and Europe

ACSC/APF, Jakarta, 04 May 2011, 3:30-6:00 p.m.

Co-organizers

Focus on the Global South; Transnational Institute (TNI); People’s Agenda for Alternative Regionalisms (PAAR)

Rationale

Three years into the global economic crisis, it is still business as usual [...] Continue Reading…

Activities organised by PAAR

By Jenina Joy Chavez, Focus on the Global South

More than five years ago, during the first ASEAN Civil Society Conference (ACSC) in Shah Alam in Malaysia, only a spattering of regional organizations interested in what the ASEAN was up to flocked to this civil society event, governed mostly by [...] Continue Reading…

Asia

In this interview economist Oscar Ugarteche, from the Economic Research Institute of the National Autonomous University of Mexico and Latindadd, argues about the need to advance regional financial mechanisms in light of the global economic crisis.

Latin America