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SAAPE is concerned about the great danger thatCOVID-19 pandemic poses in South Asia. The pandemic has already made the lives of the people miserable and woeful. The world is entering in a new phase of history. The pandemic has exposed the ugly face of the neoliberalism which has miserably (...)
The Fifth General Assembly of SAAPE was held at Kathmandu, Nepal from 02 to 03 September 2016. The main theme of the Assembly was “Gender, Poverty and Constitutional Rights: South Asian People’s Struggle”. The participants from across 8 South Asian countries reflected and deliberated on the (...)
The 18th South Asian Associations for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) summit took place at Kathmandu, Nepal on November 25 and 26. The heads of the eight states of South Asia took part in the summit.
Kathmandu was a showcase of what has happened repeatedly in the three decades since the birth of (...)
Call for unified voice of SAARC countries on climate change
KATHMANDU: Speakers at a workshop on ‘Alternative People’s regionalism: Review SAARC declaration on climate change from people’s perspective’ organised in Lalitpur today, said the role of SAARC countries in the UN process on climate (...)
South Asian people’s movements (women, youth, peasants, labour, socially marginalised groups) and civil society organisations have planned a convergence from 22 to 24 November 2014 in the form of People’s SAARC or people’s assembly, parallel to the 18th SAARC Summit in Kathmandu, Nepal.
People’s (...)
First day
Islamabad: South Asian countries need to make urgent efforts to secure food sovereignty and strict legislation should be carried out to ensure provision of foods for over one billion of people of the region.
This was the consensus of Pakistani, Indian, Nepali, Bangladeshi and Afghan (...)
Press release, Dhaka, 18 January 2011
People’s SAARC Seminar
Leadership urged to shun traditional politics to curb out a new South Asia
Human right activists and civil society leaders from all eight SAARC countries at a seminar in the city today held soul searching discussions on how to (...)
4-6 September 2010
Nagarkot, Nepal
Fighting Unitedly against Poverty, Hunger and Injustice in South Asia
Context
We, the members of SAAPE from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka met at the AGM from 4-6 Sep 2010 to deliberate on the theme- (...)
Attending the latest Peoples SAARC Assembly in Delhi was a pleasant experience. The Assembly was organized in Jawaharlal Nehru University campus on 22-23 April 2010. The venue was JNU auditorium of School of Social Sciences (SSS). This scribe was among over 200 delegates from South Asian (...)
The People’s SAARC Conference was held in New Delhi on 21-23 April 2010. 26 April 2010, Lahore
A delegation of 53 Pakistani social and political activists returned to Lahore on 25th April after attending the Peoples SAARC held in New Delhi on 22-23 April 2010. While the heads of the states of (...)
Some 300 people from across South Asia from social movements, civil society organisations, labour unions, peasant organisations, women’s groups, ecologists and human rights activists gathered in New Delhi from 20th April to 23rd April, 2010 as part of the process of a ’Peoples SAARC’ to forge a (...)
The People’s SAARC Conference was held in New Delhi on 21-23 April 2010 while the heads of the states of SAARC countries are meeting in Bhutan. We the members of social movements, civil society organizations, labour unions, peasant movements, other working people’s organizations and women’s (...)
Colombo – 30 July 2008
Peoples SAARC 2008 also known as the South Asian Peoples Assembly was hosted in Colombo, Sri Lanka between 18 and 20 July 2008.
This annual regional convergence of representatives of social movements and civil society organisations, working with and among women, (...)
Colombo,
The Sri Lankan capital started wearing festive mood as the forthcoming SAARC Summit is approaching nearer to begin the preparatory meetings from July 27.
The South Asian People’s Assembly, a non-government citizen forum comprising civil society representatives from all seven SAARC (...)
The South Asian People’s Assembly (Colombo, 18-20 July) resolves to issue the Peoples SAARC Declaration at this gathering of representatives from SAARC countries.
We, members of social movements, labour unions, women’s groups and civil society organisations have gathered here in Colombo from (...)
South Asian heads of government will meet in Colombo, Sri Lanka for the annual South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) summit between 27 July and 3 August 2008. Regrettably, this SAARC summit will be no different to its predecessors in having little relevance to the needs and (...)
A two days meeting in Colombo discussed the various themes and organizational aspects for a three days People SAARC. The South Asian Alliance for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) heads of states will meet in Colombo on July 2008. A three days counter event with people’s perspective will be held on (...)
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