This session discusses principles of common security, building on lessons from the 1980s and identifying new challenges. We will look at the cases of the South China Sea to as well as Central Asia, emphasising trust building and prospects for a nuclear weapons free zone. Finally, we consider potential future...
Watch the Webinar: Since the AEPF’s main constituency comprises the exploited working classes, oppressed peoples and progressive/Left/socialist-oriented mass movements from both Asia and Europe, the central topic of this Panel Discussion will primarily focus on these two vitally important regions of the world. In fact, the Eastern Hemisphere’s immense geographical...
Watch the Webinar: In Asia, the vast majority of people are marginalized and with little or no social protection under an economic system that prioritizes profits over people and planet. In July 2020, the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called for a new social contract amidst the social and economic...
Watch the Webinar: Covid 19 has put the question of globalised supply chains back on the table. There is a broad consensus within Asian and European social movements that supply chains need to be shortened significantly in the food sector in order to provide sustainable food options for consumers, to...
Watch the Webinar: The climate crisis has been turbo-charged by an extremist ‘market knows best’ global economic system, which trade rules embed in our lives. When alternative approaches are suggested that could create a more sustainable world, all too often the reply is ‘we can’t do that because it is...
While tourism has reduced dramatically and workers are suffering all around the world, the development of new tourism infrastructure has not paused. On the contrary, in the name of COVID recovery, governments and investors are speeding up for the ‘re-start’, continuing to promote an extractive and abusive tourism model often...
Watch the Webinar Patriarchal capitalism is in the process of destroying the spirit of people and the Earth. This Open Space session explores prospects for changing our collective goal from money-making to cultivating biodiversity, as well as shifting the basis of our society from patriarchal to gynocentric. The crisis of...
18 May 2021, 09.00 AM to 12.00 PM, Jakarta Anggota NOC: Indonesia for Global Justice (IGJ), Kesatuan Perjuangan Rakyat (KPR), Solidaritas Perempuan, Indonesian Human Rights Committee for Social Justice (IHCS), Konfederasi Pergerakan Rakyat Indonesia (KPRI), Serikat Petani Indonesia (SPI), Aliansi Petani Indonesia (API), Konsorsium Pembaruan Agraria (KPA), Auriga, Koalisi Rakyat...
Watch the Webinar: This Plenary session interrogated what is needed for the urgent struggle for climate justice, and a just transition that can meet the 1.5C target. We discussed fair shares for emission cuts, real versus 'net' zero, climate finance, and the question of adaptation of food, land and agriculture....
Nuclear weapon, agent orange/dioxin and other weapon of mass destruction kill people, destroy immune, endocrine, reproductive and generic systems, even affect second, third, and fourth generation, cause great damage to nature as well. The production, stockpiling and use of weapons of mass destruction have seriously threatened peace and security in...
