THE 2012 SADC PEOPLE’S SUMMIT REPORT
“Reclaiming SADC for People’s Development – A People’s SADC Myth or Reality?”
Table of Contents
About SAPSN
Contextualization
1. Introduction
2. Opening and Introductory Remarks
3. Key Note Addresses: A People’s SADC Myth or Reality
3.1 From Liberation Struggles to the Building of Social Movements in SADC Countries
4. Democracy and Human [...]
Africa, SAPSN (Southern Africa)
We the more than 250 representatives of grassroots movements, community-based organizations, peasant and small farmers movements, faith based organizations, women’s organizations, labour, student, youth, economic justice and human rights networks and other social movements met in Mumemo centre, Maracuene, Mozambique, from 15-16 August at the eighth People’s Summit incorporating the People’s Dialogue organized by the [...]
SAPSN (Southern Africa)
Europe is in crisis because it has been hijacked by neoliberalism and finance. In the last twenty years – with a persistent democratic deficit – the meaning of the European Union has increasingly been reduced to a narrow view of the single market and the single currency, leading to liberalisations and speculative bubbles, loss of [...]
European Networks
Letter from ACSC/APF 2012 Steering Committee on civil society inputs on ASEAN Human Rights Declaration (AHRD)
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Aspirations of Civil Society’s during the ACSC/APF 2012 on ASEAN Human Rights Declaration
1. We are deeply disappointed at the secret, exclusionary and opaque drafting process of the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration (AHRD). The ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on [...]
ACSC/SAPA (South East Asia), Regional Networks
We, more than 1,200 delegates representing various civil society organizations and movements of workers from rural and urban sectors as well as the migrant sector, peasants and farmers, women, children, youth, the elderly, persons with disabilities, urban poor, Indigenous Peoples, victims of human rights violations, domestic workers, lesbian gay transgender/transsexual intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) people, [...]
ACSC/SAPA (South East Asia), Regional Networks
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 November 2011. We organize series of [...]
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 have created a parallel process called [...]
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 areas of food security, collective response [...]
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 an alternative political, social, economic and [...]
People’s SAARC (South Asia)
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 on countries which do not adopt [...]
European Networks