Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières

Europe in crisis and Asia emerging: a look at social protection

MESTRUM Francine — 2012-10-27T09:10:14Z

Contribution to the plenary debate on social protection and essential services, Asia-Europe People's Forum (AEPF), Vientiane, 16-19 October 2012. Who could have imagined ten years ago the paradoxical situation we are living in today! In 2002 the first signs of the multiple crisis the EU is living in today were visible, especially at the social level. But institutionally, there was hope that the new constitutional treaty would bring solutions for old problems. At the economic level, (...) - On: Social Rights, Labor / Asia, China, European Union, Neoliberalism (Eng), AEPF (Asia-Europe), Vientiane

Rally people around bold transformative projects as alternatives and challenge to capitalism in crisis

EBRO Tina — 2011-02-16T18:49:43Z

Seize the Moment In the last few years, a string of interlocking crises has brought the logic and legitimacy of capitalism in question. But progressive forces have not used the opportunity to repudiate it, much less dare challenge it with bold, workable alternatives. This paper is thus a call and a plan of action for how the Left can seize the moment. The worsening situation of want and disparity calls for an overhaul of the dominant global socio-economic system that perpetuates this (...) - Reclaim People's Dignity / NTSP (Southeast Asia)

Inhabitants Together, A World Assembly in 2011 to Gain the Right to Live

IAI — 2010-05-12T08:40:14Z

Inhabitants of the world united for the right to the city!This was determined in the Call, approved by the plenary Urban Social Forum of Rio , summarizing the deep sense which invigorated the participation of thousands of people, social leaders, inhabitants organizations, tenants, homeless, cooperatives and communities in dozens of meetings, seminars and workshops which brought this unitary space to life. From Rio to Dakar, WAI's Promotional Unitary Committees Crossing Social Forums (...) - Urban Rights / WSF, Dakar, 2011, Urban Social Forum, WAI, IAI

Call from Rio towards the World Assembly of Inhabitants (WSF Dakar 2011)

Urban Social Forum — 2010-05-12T08:21:23Z

All cities and rural areas are experiencing a structural crisis, resulting from the implementation of urban policies in favour of global capitalism, which is expressed through a variety of problems: the loss of the social function of cities; the commercial exploitation of economic, social, cultural and environmental rights; deepening social, economic and gender inequalities; the absence of democracy and social participation in decision-making processes that are in the public interest; an (...) - Urban Rights / WSF, Rio de Janeiro, Dakar, Urban Social Forum, WAI

Reclaiming People's Dignity: Some Reflections

EBRO Tina — 2010-05-11T17:12:50Z

Presented last April 6, 2010 at the “SEA Conference on Social Protection and the Universalization of Socio-Economic Security” organized by GCAP-Philippines and Social Watch-Philippines, supported by the International Institute of Social Studies in Netherlands and Oxfam-Novib. When the economic meltdown began to unravel in 2008, Asean grassroots organisations and urban poor movements immediately gathered to confront this, realizing that the interlocking global crises of (...) - Reclaim People's Dignity

ASEAN urged to implement social protection

Philippine Daily Inquirer — 2009-10-15T12:23:05Z

MANILA, Philippines — ASEAN must put people's human rights, particularly to social protection for the poor who are most affected, at the center stage of its response to both the global financial meltdown and the series of disasters that have visited some member-nations of the regional bloc. This was the call made by 30 southeast Asian grassroots leaders in the two-day regional roundtable strategizing meeting at the Asian Institute of Management, a couple of weeks before the (...) - Reclaim People's Dignity / ASEAN

Updates on AEPF campaign on transformative social protection

dela CRUZ-CARDENAS Maris — 2009-09-24T22:08:27Z

Dear Pierre, Warmest wishes! As you know, we are embarking on a regional campaign on social protection as a democratic and human rights response to the crisis. This campaign began to take shape after the caucus of representatives of urban poor movements at AEPF-7 in Beijing. We believe that this social protection initiative is a transformative one. Aside from asserting the people's right to live with dignity - in particular, this is pursuing the rights to employment, food, and (...) - Reclaim People's Dignity

A call for the campaign “Reclaim People's Dignity”

2009-09-24T21:57:27Z

Dear Friends, Warm greetings! We seek to start a campaign pursuing an agenda for transformative and institutional social protection as a democratic and human rights response to the current crisis. Based on international human rights laws and instruments, to which most of our governments are signatories, this campaign, which we're calling “Reclaim People's Dignity,” began to take shape after the caucus of poor people's movements at an Asia-Europe civil (...) - Reclaim People's Dignity / ROUSSET Pierre (Eng)

Reclaim People's Dignity – Transformative Social Protection: A Democratic and Human Rights Response to the Crisis

Collective — 2009-09-24T21:31:53Z

WHEREAS the current financial and economic crisis is the worst that could be experienced in systemic boom-and-bust cycles since the Great Depression of the 1930s, occurring alongside crises in food security, energy, and climate change, causing 230 million to lose their jobs by the end of the year (ILO estimates) and pushing millions of workers and peasants back to hunger, poverty, and deprivation; WHEREAS this multiplicity of interlocking crises and its social costs are unfolding into a (...) - Reclaim People's Dignity

Workers Creating Hope: Factory Occupations and Self-Management

HATTINGH Shawn — 2009-07-01T15:00:25Z

Introduction In most countries, political leaders and bosses are using the global economic crisis to once again unleash an attack on workers and the poor. As part of this, we have seen corporations around the world trying to make workers pay for the crisis by retrenching tens of millions of people. In the most extreme cases, workers arrive at their companies in the morning and are told they no longer have a job. With all these retrenchments, corporations are not just taking away jobs (...) - On: Social Rights, Labor / Forms of struggle