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02 OCTOBER (Saturday)
Institut des Hautes Etudes des Communications Sociales (IHECS), Rue de l'etuve 58-60, Brussels |
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9.30 am - 11.00 am
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FIRST PLENARY
Asia-Europe relations in a changing global context - the impact of the crisis in Asia and Europe
Changing contexts, realities, and relations between Asia and Europe, with focus on corporate powers
Speakers:
- MP Walden Bello (Philippines)
- John Hillary (War on Want)
- Marica Frangakis (Attac Greece)
Moderator: Fiona Dove (TNI)
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11.30 am - 1.00 pm
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SECOND PLENARY
Corporate capture of our lives and governments
Consequences and impacts of the consolidation of corporate power on the people of Asia and Europe
Speakers:
- Climate: Praful Bidwai (TNI Fellow),
- Trade: MP Charles Santiago (MSN),
- Food Sovereignty : Tom Lines (Researcher),
- Decent Work: James Howard (ITUC)
Moderator: Dorothy Guerrero (Focus on the Global South)
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2.00 pm - 5.30 pm
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WORKSHOPS ON FOUR MAJOR THEMES
Space for more detailed discussions of strategies and alternatives to the problems outlined in the morning sessions.
TRADE AND INVESTMENT view details
Speakers:
- Marc Maes (11.11.11)
- Ranja Sengupta (Third World Network)
- Joseph Purugganan (EU-ASEAN FTA Campaign)
- Ryu Mikyung (KCTU)
- Seely Ashley (ITGLWF)
Moderator: Cecilia Olivet (TNI)
DECENT WORK, DECENT LIFE FOR ALL view details
Speakers:
- PART 1:
- Georgis Altinzis (ITUC)
- Sri Wulandari (AMRC)
- PART 2:
- Dwight Justice (ITUC)
- Bismo Sanyoto (World Solidarity)
- Anannya Bhattacharjee (Asia Floor Wage Alliance)
- Cristine Ebro (Network on Transformative Social Protection)
Moderator: Gareth Richards (Journalist)
FOOD SOVEREIGNTY view details
Speakers:
- Uwe Hoering (policy analyst)
- David Pred & Seng Sohkeng (Bridges Across Borders Cambodia)
- Fathima Burnad (Natesan)
- Mae Azhar (La Via Campesina)
Moderator: Thierry Kesteloot (Oxfam Solidarity)
CLIMATE CHANGE view details
Speakers:
- Fabby Tumiwa (Institute for Essential Services Reform, Indonesia, Ms. Jutta Kill
(FERN, tbc)
- Nizamuddin Nizamani
- Lidy Nacpil (Jubilee South-APMDD)
- Nicola Bullard (Focus on the Global South)
Moderator: Dorothy Guerrero (Focus on the Global South)
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7.00 pm - 9.00 pm
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BRUSSELS NIGHT
The world in crises and alternative pathways
Speakers:
- Francois Houtart (Cetri)
- MP Walden Bello (Akbayan, Philippines)
- Achin Vanaik (Delhi University)
- Marica Frangakis (Attac Greece)
Moderators:
- Tran Dac Loi (VPDF)
- Fiona Dove (TNI)
Background:
Analysts and commentators from around the world will discuss with AEPF participants the multiple-crisis and ways out from the current failing development models.
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| Day 2 |
03 OCTOBER Sunday
Institut des Hautes Etudes en Communication Sociale (IHECS), Rue de l'etuve 58-60, Brussels |
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9.30 am - 12.00 pm
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OPEN SPACES EVENTS
EU/Asian Free trade agreements: resistance and alternatives (Part 1) view details
Organizations:
- EU-ASEAN FTA Campaign
- Seattle to Brussels Network
- Focus on the Global South
- WIDE
- CEO
- TNI
Extractives Industry, Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples: Discussions and Responses from Civil Society view details
Organizations:
- Revenue Watch-Philippines
- CAFOD
- Philippinenbeuru
- Publish What You Pay
- Christian Aid
- 11.11.11
- Alyansa Tigil Mina (ATM)
Upholding Peoples' Food Sovereignty: Issues for Asia and Europe view details
Organization: People's Coalition on Food Sovereignty
Struggling for Climate Justice: concrete steps and strategies on climate and finance view details
Organizations:
- Ecologistas en Acción
- Jubilee South-APMDD
- PRRM
Trade Unions and Development Effectiveness view details
Organizations: International Trade Union Confederation
North-South Solidarity view details
Organizations:
- South-South People's Solidarity Network
- Action Aid
- Rosa Luxembourg Foundation
- Vietnam Peace and Development Foundation
- Institute for Popular Democracy
Asia Floor Wage : Stitching a living wage across Asia view details
Organization: Asia Floor Wage Alliance
Migrant Worker Rights Promotion & Protection: A Global Responsibility view details
Organizations:
- Clean Clothes Campaign International Secretariat
- Network of Action for Migrants
- Committee for Asian Women
Decent Work for Domestic Workers: Campaign Strategies for a strong rights based ILO Convention view details
Organizations:
- Migrant Forum in Asia
- TNI
- Task Force on ASEAN Migrant workers
People, Politics, and Poverty: Need for an alternative development paradigm view details
Organizations:
- LDC Watch
- South Asia Alliance for Poverty Eradication
Religious diversity, secularism, citizenship and democracy view details
Organizations:
- Centre Lebret-IRFED
- Bandung Spirit Network
- Pax Romana
- ICMICA
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1.00 pm - 3.30 pm
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OPEN SPACES EVENTS
EU/Asian Free trade agreements: resistance and alternatives(Part 2) view details
Organizations:
- EU-ASEAN FTA Campaign
- Seattle to Brussels Network
- Focus on the Global South
- WIDE
- CEO
- TNI
Transform the System: Illegitimate Debt and SDR Finance view details
Organizations:
- Jubilee South
- CADTM
- Eurodad
- 11.11.11
Getting Rid of the Weapons of Mass Destruction view details
Organizations:
- AEPF Finland
- Peace Union
- No to Bases
- Vietnam Association for the Victims of Agent Orange
From Copenhagen to Cancun: Pathways for a People's Protocol on Climate Change view details
Organization: Peoples Movement on Climate Change
How to guarantee Decent Work for the workers employed in interim, short-term contracts? view details
Organization: World Solidarity - ACV/CSC
Right to the City and Strategising on Transformative Social Protection view details
Organizations:
- Network for Transformative Social Protection
- People's Empowerment Foundation
The Urgent Appeal system of the Clean Clothes Campaign view details
Organizations: Clean Clothes Campaign
EU-ASEAN FTA: Its impact on the people's health view details
Organizations:
- Platform for Action on Health and Solidarity
- IBON
People's Global Action/GFMD in an era of Crises: Regional Consultative Process & New Challenges in Migration Policy Coherence view details
Organizations:
- Migrant Forum in Asia
- TNI
- Task Force on ASEAN Migrant workers
Civil society and upcoming electoral processes in Southeast Asia view details
- Euro-Burma Office
- Burma Centrum Nederland
- Asia House
Decent Work and Dalits : The case of the Manual Scavengers in South Asia view details
Organizations:
- Solidarité Dalits Belgique
- IDSN
- ICMICA
- Pax Romana
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3.45 pm - 4.30 pm
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FINAL PLENARY
A Civil Society Message for ASEM
Chair: Andy Rutherford (One World Action)
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4.30 pm - 5.30 pm
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DEBATE WITH EU and ASIAN OFFICIALS, with the participation of Belgian Prime Minister Yves Leterme |
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7.00 pm - 9.00 pm
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BRUSSELS NIGHT
The world in crises and alternative pathways
Speakers:
- Samir Amin (WFA)
- Mr. Boris Kagalitsky (TNI)
- Pedro Paez (Former Minister of Economic Cooperation, Ecuador)
- Nicola Bullard (Focus on the Global South)
Moderators:
- Tran Dac Loi (VPDF)
- Fiona Dove (TNI)
Background:
Analysts and commentators from around the world will discuss with AEPF participants the multiple-crisis and ways out from the current failing development models.
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| Day 3 |
04 OCTOBER Monday
Residence Palace, (Rue de la loi 155 – 1050 Brussels) |
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9.30 am -11.00 am
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POLICY DIALOGUES
ON DECENT WORK (Maelbeek Room)
Speakers:
- Frank Siebern-Thomas (Policy Coordinator, DG Employment)
- Ann de Jonghe (World Solidarity Movement)
- Anannya Bhattacharjee (Asia Floor Wage Campaign)
ON TRADE (Polak Room)
Speakers:
- Peter Berz, Deputy Head of Unit for relations with South Asia, Korea and ASEAN
- MP Charles Santiago (MSN)
- Ranja Sengupta (Third World Network)
FOOD SOVEREIGNTY (Passage Room)
Speakers:
- Leonard Mizzi (Head of Unit, EC DG on Agriculture-Unit A3)
- MP Walden Bello (Philippines)
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11.15 am – 12.30 pm
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POLICY DIALOGUE
ON CLIMATE CHANGE (Polak Room)
Speakers:
- Praful Bidwai (TNI Fellow)
- Bas Eickhout (MEP for the Greens)
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11.30 am - 1.00 pm
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POLICY DIALOGUE
ON SOCIAL PROTECTION (Maelbeek Room)
Speakers:
- Francesca Mosca (Director, EC EuropeAid Cooperation Office)
- Sandeep Chachra (Action Aid-India/Network for Transformative Social Protection)
- Bart Verstraeten (WSM/European Working Group on Social Protection
- Prof. Keon de Feyter (Antwerp University)
- MP Tian Chua (Malaysia)
- Rafendi Djamin (Indonesian Representative, ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights)
Chair: Paul Graham Meadows (Former Director General, DG Regional Policy, European Commission)
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12.00 nn - 1.00 pm
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PRESS CONFERENCE (Polak Room)
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1.00 pm
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PUBLIC ACTION on EU-Asian commercial relations
Schuman Square (tbc)
Coordinated by the Belgian Platform on Health and Solidarity
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2.30pm - 5.30 pm
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POLICY DIALOGUE ON PEACE AND SECURITY
Moderators:
- Kalle Sysikaski (Finnish AEPF Committee)
- Varsha Berry (Focus on the Global South)
Speakers:
- Achin Vanaik (Delhi University)
- Colin Archer (International Peace Bureau)
- Jan Oberg (TTF)
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BRUSSELS LOBBY TOUR
Visiting Brussels Corporate Lobby Agencies
Organization: CEO
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SIDE EVENT
Round table - Route map for companies to an Asia Floor Wage
Organization: Asia Floor Wage Alliance |
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7.00 pm - 9.00 pm
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SIDE EVENT
Collusion, capture, complicity. Big business lobbying in China, India and the EU
Mundo B, Rue d'Edimbourg 26, 1050 Brussels, metro "Porte de Namur"
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| Day 4 |
05 OCTOBER Tuesday CLOSING EVENT
DIALOGUE at the European Parliament, Rue Wiertz, 60, Brussels (Entrance at 9.00 am, programme starts 9.30 am) |
| 9.00 am - 12.00 nn |
Beyond Free Trade: Alternatives for EU-Asia relations"?
Dialogue in Room A3G2, entrance Altiero Spinelli, side of the Luxembourg place
Asian MP's:
- Walden Bello (Akbayan, Philippines),
- Charles Santiago, Deomcratic Action Party, (Malaysia)
Members of the European Parliament:
- Helmut Scholz, coordinator of INTA Committee for the GUE/NGL
- Yannick Jadot, coordinator of the INTA Committee for the GREENS-EFA
- Joe Higgins, member of INTA Committee for the GUE/NGL
- Ska Keller, member of DEVE Committee for the GREENS-EFA
CSO Representatives of Trade Campaigns:
- Ryu, Mikyung, International Director, Korean Confederation of Trade Unions
- Ashim Roy - New Trade Union Initiative (NTUI) India
- Joseph Puruganan – Co-ordinator, EU-Asean Trade Campaign
- Marc Maes, Trade Policy Officer, 11.11.11
- Brid Brennan, Programme Co-ordinator Transnational Institute
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1.00 pm - 2.30 pm
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SIDE EVENT
Transparency and social labeling: Tools for Decent work in the global garment industry
Organizations:
- Belgian Decent Work Coalition
- Clean Clothes Campaign
Square de Meeûs, 18 – 1050 Brussels
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| Day 5 |
06 OCTOBER Wednesday
International Trade Union House (Koning Albert II-laan, No. 5 / 2, Brussels) |
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9.00 am - 5.00 pm
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SIDE EVENT
Rosa Luxembourg Foundation Public Seminar: Analysis of Transformatory Projects in Different World Regions
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