Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
LAHORE: Small farmers from Europe and Asia have agreed on building solidarity among small-scale food producers, resisting trans-national food companies and industrial agriculture to elevate human rights for rural people and strengthen agro-ecology.
This agreement was reached in a webinar (...)
A three days International Conference in Lahore (Pakistan) was successfully organised by the Asia Europe Peoples Forum (AEPF) , in coordination with Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee and Crofter Foundation on the theme of “Towards a just transition: Food sovereignty, post-extractivism and climate (...)
Report on the International Conference by the AEPF Social Justice Thematic Cluster held in Kathmandu, 4-6 April 2019
Participating Organizations: Transform! Europe, Attac France, Global Social Justice, IT for Change, Action Aid, World Solidarity Movement, Home Based Workers Concern Society, (...)
Message of the Asia Europe People’s Forum 12 to the Asia Europe Meeting 12
AEPF 12 Statement
Brussels 18th October 2018
Presented on behalf of the AEPF by Dorothy Guerrero a Filipina immigrant, working for a British civil society organisation Global Justice Now We proudly share with you (...)
Dear Friends,
I was assigned to make this short speech below at the Opening Session of the 11th ASEM Summit, on behalf of AEPF 11 and the Asia Europe People’s Forum (AEPF) International Organizing Committee. AEPF holds biennial civil society events prior to the ASEM Summit.
Fifty one (...)
Save The Date for the 11th Asia-Europe Peoples’ Forum (AEPF11): Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 4-6 July 2016
A call to social movements, frontline communities, and campaigning networks, and progressive NGOs, academics, and parliamentarians across Asia and Europe.
------------------------- Building (...)
The Asia-Europe People’s Forum (AEPF) expresses its shock and grief at the death and destruction caused by the recent blasts in Lahore and Brussels. We offer our deepest condolences to the loved ones left behind by the senseless acts that killed dozens of innocent people and injured hundreds of (...)
‘SOVEREIGNTY AND LIFE IN DIGNITY, NOT AUSTERITY FOR GREECE’
AEPF statement of solidarity with the Greek people and government
5 JULY 2015
We from the Asia-Europe People’s Forum – a strategic civil society network of Asian and European social movements working for social, economic and ecological (...)
A call to social movements, frontline communities and campaigning networks, and progressive NGOs, academics and parliamentarians across Asia and Europe:
Join the 10th Asia-Europe Peoples’ Forum “Towards a Just and Equal Asia and Europe - Building States of Citizens for Citizens” Milan, (...)
The 9th Asia Europe People’s Forum (AEPF9) took place with 1000 participants -most of them from South East Asia – in October 2012 in Vientiane, Laos. The AEPF seemed to be a symbol that Laos is not only opening up for the market and investors but for civil society as well.
The small country had (...)
Nuclear activities endanger people, democracy, freedom and the environment. After the Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters, the fight against greenhouse gases must not be a pretext to maintain nuclear energy. There is a especially strong interrelation between Europe and Asia on this issue, (...)
The 9th Asia-Europe People’s Forum (AEPF9) Final Declaration calls the ASEM governments to build a nuclear free world. On “Sustainable Energy Production and Use”, the 5th “Key Recommendation” states: “Commit to progressing, with urgency, to a nuclear power free world. This will require (...)
We, over 1,000 women and men, representing people’s organisations and citizens from Asia and Europe joined together from 16th to 19th October 2012 in Vientiane, Laos at the 9th Asia Europe People’s Forum under the title “People’s Solidarity against Poverty and for Sustainable Development: (...)
At the 9th Asia Europe People’s Forum we focused on developing strategies and demands to the governments which meet at the 9th ASEM meeting in Laos in November.
Over 1000 citizens from Asia and Europe joined together from 16th to 19th October 2012 in Vientiane at the 9th Asia Europe People’s (...)
Highlights of the Discussions
Access to energy, to climate change and poverty are inter-linked. Energy is essential to both production and sustaining life. The current development paradigm characterized by overproduction and consumption without regard for the earth’s capacity is incompatible (...)
Highlights of the Discussions
The workshop discussed how the three current global crises i.e. financial crisis, ecological/climate crisis and food security crisis are corresponding and interrelated, and that these ongoing crises are leading to uprising and violence around the world. Green (...)
Highlights of the Discussions
We are facing a global water crisis. Never has there been such pressure on water resources and such water scarcity as we have now.
In this context of scarcity and crisis in resources, here are the key issues that came out from the workshop:
First, a number of (...)
Highlights of the Discussions
"A silent coup d’ etat is taking place now because of corporate power”—this was a quote from a participant that underscored one of the main issues discussed in the workshop.
Transnational Corporations have become so powerful that only few of them now control 40 (...)
VIENTIANE, Laos — Civil society participants to the Asia-Europe People’s Forum here are demanding that their governments provide a “rights-based, universal, state-underwritten, legislated, and comprehensive” social protection system after the results of a workshop showed at least seven in 10, or (...)
9th Asia–Europe People’s Forum
Vientiane, October 2012
Plenary on ‘Social Protection and Access to Essential Services’
Introduction: Multiple Crises
A multiple crisis has been buffeting affluent states such as the US and those of the European Union for the past five years. While the main focus (...)
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