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Welcome to
SAAPE Homepage
SAAPE is a network of like-minded NGOs,
mass-based organisations, academics, trade unions, community
based organisations and the like from Bangladesh, Bhutan,
India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, working
together towards the eradication of poverty and protection
of human rights and social justice in the region. The
Secretariat is based in Kathmandu at Rural Reconstruction
Nepal. More>>
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Join
the International People's Solidarity Days
July 4-8, 2008, Hokkaido, Japan
 The
G8 Summit will be held this year from July 7-9 in Toyako,
Hokkaido, Japan. This will be a culmination of a series
of ministerial preparation meeting beginning in March.
The G8 Action Network, a network of various Japanese
organizations and movements, is calling on all social
movements, peasant organizations, women, migrants, urban
and rural poor, fisherfolk and civil society from all
over the world who are resisting free trade in its many
forms, war and militarism, the privatization of essential
services and natural resources, illegitimate debt and
the domination of global finance, and fighting for and
building real people based solutions to global warming,
to come and join in the week of action against the G8
here in Japan. More>>
Public Forums
SAAPE
and LDC
Watch, along with other networks and groups, have
planned different public forums on illegitimate debt,
ecological debt, climate justice and food crises during
the G8 Summit in Hokkaido, Japan. If any of you will
be there, please do not miss these events as well.
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Towards
A South Asian Union
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18, 19 and
20 July 2008, Colombo, Sri Lanka
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South
Asian heads of government will meet in Colombo, Sri
Lanka for the annual South Asian Association for Regional
Cooperation (SAARC) summit between 27 July and 3 August
2008.
The main theme of Peoples SAARC 2008
is “Towards A South Asian Union” while
the sub-themes include women’s rights; demilitarisation,
denuclearisation and democracy; right to food, livelihood,
health, education and social security in the context of
alternatives to neo-liberalism; environmental justice
and natural resource rights; and South Asian solidarity
with anti-imperialist struggles worldwide. A mass rally
for peace and justice in South Asia will form part of
the closing ceremony.
More>>
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The Federal Democratic
Republic of Nepal must ratify immediately the Optional
Protocol on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR)
On the occasion of adoption
of the Optional Protocol on ESCR, the National Network
on Right to Food (RtFN), Nepal welcomes the decision
of the Human Rights Council on 18th of June 2008 in
Geneva, Switzerland adopting the Protocol. The adoption
of the Optional Protocol is an important achievement
for the materialisation of International Covenant on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). The Optional
Protocol is the result of several years of work by governments,
civil society, HR experts and the UN human rights bodies
to remedy a long-term gap in human rights protection
under the international system. An inter-governmental
Working Group has deliberated on the scope and content
of the draft Optional Protocol since 2004. The Optional
Protocol adopted by the Council includes a number of
provisions, including that the States Parties to the
Covenant joining the Protocol recognize the competence
of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights to receive and consider communications alleging
violations of the economic, social and cultural rights
set forth in the Covenant. More>>
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Press Release
Small farmers must not be left
alone
SAAPE calls on EU
summit to guarantee food sovereignty and to support
small-scale sustainable farming in the developing
world
19 June 2008
BRUSSELS - Against the
backdrop of the global food crisis and in the aftermath
of the FAO emergency session, the EU Summit will discuss
today implications and challenges for the Common Agricultural
Policy (CAP) and development aid. SAAPE, the South Asia
Alliance for Poverty Eradication, calls on the EU to
invest a greater percentage of their development assistance
ODA (as opposed to the current 4%) in agriculture and
rural development focusing on small-scale farming based
on sustainable and local food production and to recognize
countries' rights to food sovereignty. More>>
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Roundtable
meeting: EU Budget Review - Consolidation of the Budget
for Development Co-operation
Brussels, 10/06/08:
Eurostep and the South Asia Alliance for Poverty Eradication
(SAAPE) today organised a roundtable meeting EU Budget
Review: Consolidation of the Budget for Development Co-operation
in the context of the ongoing EU Budget review and
the Commission's call for submission of public inputs.
The roundtable resulted in interactive
deliberations between civil representatives from South
Asia, Latin America and the European Neighbourhood Policy
countries, and members from the Commission, the Parliament,
Member States, African embassies and European NGOs. Click
here for detail information>>
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ADB
strategy 2020: selling Asia to the private sector
Civil society organizations have
released a sign-on statement that rejects the Asian Development
Bank's (ADB) strategic framework for a "New Asia."
"Strategy 2020" and the "Long Term Strategic
Framework", the two plans put forth by the ADB, were
criticised in the statement as being a continuation of
the ADB's policy of pushing the privatization of services
within Asia. Full
text of the Statement>>
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Peasants
Conference demands land rights
On 17 April 2008, the international
day of peasants, a massive peasant conference in Okara
gave two months to the government of Pakistan Peoples
Party to fulfill the promises they made while in opposition.
Held at Village 15/4L Military Farms, over 5000 participated
in the conference organized by Anjaman Mozareen Punjab
(AMP). Peasants came from all over the districts while
representatives of different peasant and political organization
came from all over Pakistan. More>>
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Last updated on 4 July,
2008
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प्रतिवेदन
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दक्षिण
एसियाली
जनसभा जनसार्क
२००७
काठमाडौं,
नेपाल
मार्च २३-२५
२००७
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