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• Reclaim People's Dignity (Movements)

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

  7 February 2011, by EBRO Tina

  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 (...)

• Reclaim People's Dignity (Movements)

  Reclaiming People’s Dignity: Some Reflections

  6 April 2010, by EBRO Tina

  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 (...)

• Reclaim People's Dignity (Movements)

  ASEAN urged to implement social protection

  13 October 2009, by Philippine Daily Inquirer

  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 (...)

• Reclaim People's Dignity (Movements)

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

  16 September 2009, by BELLO Walden, CHENOY Anuradha M, CHENOY Kamal Mitra, LIM Paul Joseph, ROUSSET Pierre, SCHMIDT Johannes Dragsbaek

  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 (...)

• Reclaim People's Dignity (Movements)

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

  15 September 2009, by Collective

  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 (...)

• Reclaim People's Dignity (Movements)

  Updates on AEPF campaign on transformative social protection

  9 September 2009, by dela CRUZ-CARDENAS Maris

  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 (...)