Migrants & Refugee Rights & Realities 2021: Reflections & Strategies

May 22, 2021 12:30 pm - May 22, 2021 2:00 pm

Reviewing & levelling off on the refugee “crises” and the predicament of the migrants, their rights & realities. Specific impacts in relation to the pandemic. Trends, specifically highlighting the conditions of women and children migrants, government policies, international obligations, strategies, responses & demands by civil society to define next steps...

Re-thinking Social Justice Post-COVID

May 22, 2021 12:30 pm - May 22, 2021 2:00 pm

Watch the Webinar:  This session gives a comprehensive overview of a year long process in which academics and social movements in Europe and Asia have built a new narrative on social protection, social justice and social commons, bringing together an innovative approach to universal health care, labour law and public...

Asia Europe Youth Campaigns Fair

May 22, 2021 12:30 pm - May 22, 2021 2:30 pm

Watch the Webinar The event aimed to provide youth and student movements and organizations from different countries with the opportunity to establish and deepen links with each other and get to know each other’s contexts. Through a roundtable and open mic sharing, they will talk about what they consider as...

A Just Minerals Transition in Asia and Europe

May 22, 2021 12:30 pm - May 22, 2021 2:00 pm

A central demand of climate movements has been to move to ‘100% renewable energy’, yet there is potential for widespread destruction and human rights abuses by the extraction of so-called 'transition minerals'. Based on newly published research (with case studies from Indonesia & the Philippines) we will explore this extractivism...

Major Powers’ Policies

May 22, 2021 12:30 pm - May 22, 2021 2:00 pm

This session looks at Biden’s foreign policy and its implications on Asia-Pacific, considers NATO 2030 according to the International No to War No to NATO Network, discusses China’s foreign policies in the context of COVID-19, and looks at the conflict in the Indo-Pacific. 1. Biden’s foreign policy and its implications...

The political economy and the transboundary movements of hazardous waste to developing countries – Shipbreaking in South Asia

May 21, 2021 12:30 pm - May 21, 2021 2:00 pm

Shipbreaking is a hazardous industry with devastating human and environmental impacts. The vast majority of ships end up on beaches in South Asia, where ship owners can earn the most profit at the end of ship’s operational life. The discussion will be focused on how the widespread shipbreaking practice is...

Housing: Developing New Strategies

May 21, 2021 12:30 pm - May 21, 2021 2:00 pm

Watch the Webinar This strategy roundtable on housing and the Right to the City focuses on developing a coherent social justice approach that brings housing into our strategies, connecting with other habitat-related rights such as social protection, the environment, gender and land use. Housing: Strategy Round Table on Housing and...

Rogue Capitalism and People’s Struggles: Pushing Back Against the Financialization of Territories and Nature

May 21, 2021 12:30 pm - May 21, 2021 2:00 pm

Watch the Webinar: Rural and urban communities around the globe are facing a dramatic increase in dispossession and destruction of their lands, rivers, pastures, forests, oceans, and homes. What is the reason for this dramatic increase? It is finance capitalism. Over the last decades, economies have increasingly become dominated by...

The Effectiveness of the Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

May 21, 2021 12:30 pm - May 21, 2021 2:00 pm

The TPNW entered into force on January 22, 2021. It is a milestone in human history, prohibiting all activities involving nuclear weapons. However, humankind remains under the dark shadows of nuclear threats. Nuclear weapon states and nuclear umbrella states have turned their backs to the TPNW, clinging to nuclear deterrence....

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