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Alternatives and Regional Integration |
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Alternative Regionalism
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A historic mobilisation of governments and social movements took place in Cochabamba, Bolivia in December 2006. The Presidents of eight countries held the Summit of the South American Community of Nations (SACN) while the social movements and civil society organisations from all over the Latin American continent gathered (more than 30,000 participating in the final day) for the Social Summit for the integration of the Peoples (People’s Integration). During the days of these simultaneous Summits (and in the inter-action between both Summits) a decisive shift was made (effort was made) to move the Latin American continent away from the model of neoliberal globalisation towards a new model of development and regional integration from below.
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Establishing an AEPF Climate Justice Working Group |
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Ecological Justice
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Why a Working Group on Climate Justice in AEPF?
This year's G8 Summit, which was held in L'Aquila, Italy from July 8 to 10 offered one more opportunity for leaders from major economies to break the climate deadlock by demonstrating their political will in solving the climate crisis and produce something substantial on the table on key issues of technology cooperation and financing. Unfortunately, that opportunity was once more missed. For those following the negotiations in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), this is not surprising for the divide between the interests of developed and developing countries are huge and the contradictions related to offered solutions are getting bigger.
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Asia-Europe Caucus for Democracy and Human Rights |
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Democratisation and Human Rights
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The Asia Europe People's Forum in cooperation with Développement et Civilisations Lebret-Irfed, FORUM-Asia,Indonesian Partnership on Local Governance Initiative, Institute for Popular Democracy, and One World Action will be holding the Asia-Europe Caucus for Democracy and Human Rights on June 6-8, 2008 in the Philippines.
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