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ADB challenged to ditch its Anti-People Policies and Projects, pursue Genuine Development |
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Friday, 03 May 2013 16:20 |
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APRN Statement on the 2013 Annual Governor's Meeting of the Asian Development Bank | 3 May 2013
As the Asian Development Bank’s 46th Annual Governors’ meeting unfolds today in Noida, India, the Asia Pacific Research Network challenged the ADB to abandon its anti-people and market-centric development framework that has led to massive disempowerment and impoverishment of the people.
Noting the ADB’s theme for this year’s meeting “Development through Empowerment”, APRN General Secretary Marjorie Pamintuan said “Asia’s Destructive Bank is responsible for decades of debt, destruction and disempowerment in the region, and should therefore ditch its promotion of the distorted economic model that has perpetuated poverty, pollution and displacement.”
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Last Updated on Monday, 06 May 2013 11:09 |
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Monday, 04 March 2013 18:10 |
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The 16 Round of Negotiations in the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal is taking place in Singapore, from 4-13 March 2013. Three more talks are expected this year before the trade agreement is concluded in time for the APEC Summit in Indonesia in October.
What is the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)?
The Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement is a proposed regional free trade agreement (FTA) being negotiated among the United States, Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam. U.S. negotiators and others describe and envision the TPP as a “comprehensive and high-standard” FTA, presumably because they hope it will liberalize trade in nearly all goods and services and include commitments beyond those currently established in the World Trade Organization (WTO). It has been dubbed as the “gold standard deal of the 21st century” and is seen as a move by the US to bypass the slow-moving negotiations in the World Trade Organization (WTO) and create a platform for a Free Trade Area of the Asia Pacific (FTAAP).
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 05 March 2013 11:19 |
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TOWARDS A JUST AND TRANSFORMATIVE POST-2015 DEVELOPMENT AGENDA |
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Friday, 18 January 2013 16:42 |
On January 22, 2013, IBON International, WALHI, INDIES, PCFS and APRN are inviting peoples organizations, social movements and NGOs from across Indonesia to a workshop titled “Towards a Just and Transformative Post-2015 Development Agenda”
The workshop’s objectives are: 
1. To discuss the challenge of sustainable development in the global and Indonesian context
2. To provide a background on the United Nation’s roadmap towards a post-2015 development framework
3. To present the Campaign on Peoples Goals for Sustainable Development (CPGSD)
4. To strategize how Indonesian social movements and civil society can campaign for a truly just, equitable and transformative development agenda for the post-2015 period
The Campaign for People’s Goals for Sustainable Development is a global campaign of grassroots organizations, labor unions, social movements and non-governmental organizations and other institutions committed to promoting new pathways to the future we want. Join the campaign at here.
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Last Updated on Friday, 18 January 2013 16:51 |
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APRN launches book on food and climate ahead of World Food Day |
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Wednesday, 17 October 2012 12:29 |
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Reference: Marjorie Pamintuan, APRN General Secretary-in-training |
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The Asia Pacific Research Network (APRN) launched its latest book entitled “Sowing Seeds of Hope and Change: Farmers Confronting the Food and Climate Crises” on October 15, 2012, a day ahead of World Food Day. The book launch was co-sponsored by the Andhra Pradesh Vyavasaya Vruthidarula Union (APVVU) and Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) in the People’s Food Biodiversity: Land and Food Sovereignty in Hyderabad, India. The event ran in parallel to the 11th Conference of Parties Convention on Biodiversity (COP CBD 11).
“The book discusses how farmers use local agro-ecological food production systems and methods to cope with the food and climate crises and also how they use these to resist corporate agriculture from taking over their local food production,” said Ms. Marjorie Pamintuan, APRN General Secretary-in training.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 17 October 2012 12:50 |
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SAVE THE DATES! October 15, 2012 |
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Wednesday, 10 October 2012 12:25 |
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APRN to launch food and climate book in Hyderabad, India
APRN, in partnership with Andra Pradesh Vyavasaya Vruthidarula Union (APVVU) and Asian Peasant Coalition (APC), invites you to the launch of Sowing Seeds of Change and Hope: Farmers Confronting the Food and Climate Crises on October 15, 2012, 3:00-4:00 pm at the People's Sovereignty: Land and Biodiversity at the Jeevan Jyothi, Hyderabad, India.
For inquiries, please contact Marjorie Pamintuan at
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or Chennaiah Poguri at
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'With the systematic manipulation of agro-chemical corporations and financial institutions over food production and distribution, the world now finds itself confronted by the global food crisis. This manipulation disempowered traditional food producers, and replaced their local knowledge of production. Corporate control on agriculture has proven to only serve the interest of the few, powerful individuals, agro-chemical corporations and nations. Now, the world is facing yet another crisis, the climate crisis. The impacts of climate change are affecting food production at a large scale and are also being used by corporations and financing institutions to further strengthen their claim and control in the world's resources.
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Last Updated on Friday, 12 October 2012 10:41 |
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