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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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Abolition of Child Labour, Social
Exclusion and the Girl Child
One of our SAAPE
members, Shobha Raghuram was Member of the Working
Group on 'Education and Child Labour' set up by the National
Commission for the Protection of the Child, Govt of India
(December 2007 –May, 2008). During this time a comprehensive
report was prepared and presented to the NCPCR.
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PDF version
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Seminar
on 'LDC and Brussels Plan of Actions (BPoA)' at National
Press Club, Dhaka, Bangladesh
29 August 2008
LDC Watch, South Asia
Alliance for Poverty Eradication (SAAPE) and Equity
and Justice Working Group (Equity BD), Bangladesh jointly
organized the seminar on 'LDCs and Brussels Programme
of Action (BPoA)' in Dhaka.
In the introductory speech,
Dr Arjun K Karki of LDC Watch said there were 24 least
developed countries in 1971. ‘But now the number
of LDCs has increased to 49 and the rich countries are
responsible for their deterioration,’ he said.
‘We were not poor. We were systemically made poor.
LDCs must apply ‘2P’ strategy i.e Pressure
and Partnership to gain benefit from the international
Programme of Actions and multilateral development processes.
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Bhutan
human rights record
New Delhi, August 06: Asian
Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) said Bhutan is one of
the front runner of human rights violations in South
Asian region in the year 2007. In the report published
by the organizations recently, Bhutan has been ranked
third in terms of rights violations among the seven
nations in the region.
ACHR states that Sri Lanka (with 52
points) is the worst human rights violator in South
Asia followed by Bangladesh (45 points), Bhutan (43
points), Pakistan (41 points), Maldives (23 points),
Nepal (24 points) and India (24 points). More»
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The question remains
BY NIRA GIRI TAMANG
During the 14th SAARC Summit
in Delhi in 2007, the then prime minister of Bhutan, Khandu
Wangchuck defended the institution of the monarchy as
if the king had come down from a heavenly abode. For commoners,
SAARC is a platform to commit and demonstrate national
and collective development goals. Lauding the monarch
beyond limits reflects a farcical democratic transition.
The leaders either have lost their conscientiousness or
are overtly colluding with the king to defeat the legitimate
aspirants of democratic change. Organizations that are
working for democratic transition and banned by Bhutan
have accepted the king as ceremonial head. There is no
reason to feel insecure if one truly believes in democracy.
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Hopes, fears over promises
from association of south Asian countries
by Melani Manel Perera
SRI LANKA
At the summit in Colombo, heads of state and government
leaders of member countries have promised to work
together to lower food prices, combat hunger, and
assist agriculture. But many observe that concrete
actions are still lacking.
Colombo (AsiaNews)
- Favorable comments, but much skepticism toward the
declaration released by heads of state and government
leaders who met in Colombo on August 2 and 3 for the
15th summit of the South Asian Association for Regional
Cooperation (SAARC). More»
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The People's SAARC
2008 Concludes
July
20, Colombo.
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Inaugral
Session
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As the largest people's assembly
in South Asia, right before to the official SAARC
Summit, the People's SAARC 2008 has been convened
from 18 to 20 July 2008 in Colombo, Sri Lanka with
a grand success. Hundreds of women, workers, peasants,
urban and rural poor, youth and students, cultural
activists, scholars, politicians and representatives
of marginalised and excluded social groups and communities
from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives,
Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka gathered in Colombo,
Sri Lanka to manifest their common aspirations and
agendas and solidarity under the them of "Towards
South Asian Union".
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Participation
of SAAPE delegates at the CSO events organised in Hokkaido,
Japan from 4-9 July 2008 in relation to G8 Summit
 The
34th G8 summit took place in Toyako on the northern
island of Hokkaido, Japan from July 7-9, 2008. The G8
is an unofficial forum bringing together the heads of
the richest industrialised countries: France, Germany,
Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States
of America, Canada (since 1976), Russia (since 1998)
and the President of the European Commission (since
1981). It must be noted that the G8 countries represent
14% of the world's population but control 2/3rd of global
industry, 75 % of the world's military budget and almost
all nuclear weapons except Israel, India and
Pakistan. More»
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Scientific
Agrarian Reform must for Sustained Economic Revolution
South Asia Regional
Conference on Food Sovereignty, Agrarian Reforms and
Peasants Rights Concluded
 9
July 2008. Peasant leaders from different countries
of South Asia participating in South Asian Regional
Conference on Food Sovereignty, Agrarian Reform and
Peasants' Rights organised in Kathmandu, Nepal on
8-9 July 2008 have concluded that without Scientific
Agrarian Reform, there are remote chances of achieving
sustained economic revolution in the countries of
the region where agriculture is the mainstay of the
majority people living in rural areas. Therefore,
they urged the governments of the South Asia region
to devise policies for scientific agrarian reform
to fight against poverty and hunger and assure fundamental
rights of all citizens to food, energy, health and
education, including other economic, social and cultural
rights. More»
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NGOs fight
to make their voices heard
July 6 2008. Recent
G8 summits have not been kind to rabble-rousers.
Ever since street violence marred the 2001 meeting
in Genoa, Italy, and terrorists attacked the US
that same year, summit organisers have swept their
charges off to ever more remote locations. Islands,
forests and highland retreats have been popular.
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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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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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Last updated on 1 September,
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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