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 participants of the official Saarc summit [...]

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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 as big dams, diversions and hydro [...]

Asia

 
4th GENERAL FORUM
Solidarity for Asian People’s Advocacy (SAPA)
“Forging Solidarity, Building Alternatives”
The Everest Hotel, Kathmandu, Nepal
26 – 27 March 2010

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Day 1, March 26, Public Forum
The Asian Challenge: Forging Solidarity, Building Alternatives

– The public forum started at 10:07 am. Ms. Jenina Joy Chavez started by providing an [...]

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This series of interviews presents the perspectives of activists from Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe on the issue of regional integration. All interviews were filmed by TNI at the International Conference of Governments and Social Movements - “Regional Integration: an opportunity to face the crises” - between 21 and 22 July 2009 in [...]

Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America

Meena Menon (Focus on the Global South, India) discusses regional integration and its suitability as an arena for advancing a new development model. Meena states that regional solutions are important as they bring the strengths of individual countries together to complement one-another. Through this approach neighbours begin to have a greater stake in peaceful coexistence [...]

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This report compiles the exchanges of analysis on the role of Europe in a globalized world over three interconnected issues: climate change, trade and regional integration held during two debates which took place in Belem during the World Social Forum (January 2009), and in Bangkok, Thailand during the ASEAN Peoples’ Forum (February 2009):
- Emerging crises: [...]

Activities organised by PAAR, Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America

By: ASHOK B SHARMA Posted On: 17-Nov-2009
http://www.mynews.in/News/India_to_play_a_proactive_role_in_SAARC_and_SAFTA_N30379.html

New Delhi, Nov 17: Economic integration of all the eight South Asian countries posses a challenge to the political leaders of the region. Though South Asia Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA) was operationalised from July 2006 the intra regional trade increased at a snail space from 3.2% in 1980s to [...]

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The ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) vision talks about a stable, prosperous, and highly competitive region, with equitable economic development, and reduced poverty and economic disparities. Its goal is to hasten complete liberalization and opening up of the regional economy by 2015. However, this framework of a competitive market economy which mainly benefits MNCs/TNCs in developed [...]

ACSC/SAPA (South East Asia), Asia

REGIONAL PERSPECTIVE

By Kavi Chongkittavorn
The Nation
THAILAND’S LONG STANDING plan to institutionalise the interface between Asean leaders and representatives of the more than 70 Asean civil society organisations (CSO) are crumbling. The noble objective of establishing a people-oriented Asean community will remain a pipe dream for the time being.
Last week, at the [...]

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Alexander C. Chandra

“Development”—or “economic development,” more precisely—has been a core aspiration of many of the regional integration initiatives of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). In the area of economic cooperation, for example, initiatives such as the ASEAN Free Trade Agreement, the ASEAN Investment Area, and the most ambitious economic integration project of the [...]

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