The Parliamentary Interface was an important opportunity to engage and interact with 8 progressive Parliamentarians from across Asia and Europe. The AEPF presented our People’s Charter for Parliamentarians and our six thematic People’s Agendas for change. Parliamentarians shared responses and suggestions on how we can collaborate to turn these visions...
The 'I Commit – We Commit' Plenary screened a multilingual video of People’s Pledges to our collective commitments. Participants had the opportunity to share what they are committing to and to how, with responses and additions from AEPF13. This session also showcased campaigns and activities that people and organisations can...
This Plenary launched our study on how and why dissent is being throttled, giving examples of laws and mechanisms used to curb dissent. We raised voices of the oppressed from across our regions, cultivated relationships between rights defenders and called for a global coalition to revitalise the universal rights to...
Watch the Webinar: This session covers human rights violations in Laos, including the lack of justice in the Lao PDR, land rights and land grab, evironmental destruction in the Mekong region and larger implications. - Human rights Violations in Laos - Lack of justice in the Lao PDR - Land...
Watch the Webinar: This session focuses on the profiling of Asian migrant workers in Europe, particularly Asians' roles in health and social care services, given the worsening 'Sinophobia' resulting from the virus originating in China. We also explore the consequences for migrant workers as a result of the pandemic and...
Watch the Webinar: This session is about re-imagining how the world should be, through visions of the youth for our future. We focus on alternatives and actions for peace, justice and the planet. Organisers: International Peace Bureau Youth
This Open Session highlights lessons for movements struggling against the neoliberal domination of agriculture under Covid-19 and beyond. We aim to deepen cooperation between movements in Asia and Europe, and focus on policies that put food sovereignty over monopolies. The COVID-19 has pandemic further exposed the unsustainability of the current...
Watch the Webinar: Democratic regression in Asia and Europe has meant the contraction of democratic spaces within campuses. Webinar speakers discussed how pressures from state and non-state forces on campus movements in Asia and Europe have affected their ability to build and sustain academic freedom within and without their campuses....
This Plenary analysed different perspectives on peace and security in Asia and Europe over the last two years, focusing on how international security is linked to national developments of major states as well as to human well-being, especially global health, economic insecurities and climate change. We also discussed urgent steps...
