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MEKONG SOLIDARITY
CALL FOR SUPPORT
ASEAN Civil Society Conference/ASEAN People’s Forum | September 2019
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The Mekong Solidarity and supporting organizations including the People's Coalition on Food Sovereignty (PCFS) issued a statement on the occasion of the ASEAN Civil Society Conference/ASEAN People’s Forum (ACSC/APF), held from Sept. 9 to 12, 2019 in Bangkok, Thailand. A total of 34 organizations endorsed this call for support.
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PCFS participated in the ACSC/APF 2019. Delegates included its member organizations from Cambodia, Manipur, Pakistan, Philippines, and Thailand as well as the Global Secretariat staff. PCFS Asia was also among the speakers of the Convergence Space on Trade, Investments and Corporate Power.
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PCFS member PAN Asia Pacific is releasing a three-part features series on the land and human rights issues and grassroots movements of indigenous peoples and farmers from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. The series is a recap of the strategizing workshop jointly organized by PANAP and PCFS with CSOs from the Mekong region, held on Aug. 12 to 14, 2019 in Myanmar. PANAP's #NoLandNoLife Features discuss recent developments, events, and trends on land and resource grabbing and related human rights issues in the region as well as the factors and forces that drive it. READ HERE: PART 1 / PART 2
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Indonesia's national police confirmed the arrest of Buchtar Tabuni, a leading West Papuan activist, for suspected treason in light of the protests demanding a referendum on West Papua's independence across Papua, West Papua and other Indonesian provinces in the past three weeks.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is promising to formally annex territory in the occupied West Bank if he wins re-election. That would make it impossible for Palestine to form a state, while discrediting any Palestinian leader who works towards reconciliation.
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Thousands of Sudanese protested outside the presidential palace in Khartoum, calling for the appointment of senior judicial officials and justice for demonstrators killed since December. Authorities have acknowledged 87 deaths resulting from the violence that day, but protest groups have put the toll at nearly 130.
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Muslim-majority Kashmir, claimed by both India and Pakistan, has been in turmoil since India stripped its portion of the region of its autonomy and statehood on Aug. 5, leading to clashes between security forces and residents and inflaming tension with Pakistan. Authorities in Indian Kashmir have arrested nearly 4,000 people since the scrapping of its special status.
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Int'l Rural Women's Day
OCT 15
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World Hunger Day
GLOBAL ACTION
OCT 16
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CSM Forum 2019 | CFS 46th Plenary Session
OCT 12-13 | OCT 14-18
Sylvia Mallari, PCFS Global Co-chairperson, will join as the representative of the Southeast Asia sub-region. She will serve for the CSM Coordinating Committee from October 2019 until October 2021.
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Millions of people worldwide joined marches and climate strikes on Sept. 20 calling for "climate justice" to be an ethical obligation and not just an environmental issue.
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The Amazon, covering 5.5 million square kilometers over nine countries, faces ever more serious threats from encroaching crop and livestock farming, mining, land occupations and illegal logging.
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The Indonesian government is failing to protect the rights of Indigenous peoples who have lost their traditional forests and livelihoods to oil palm plantations in West Kalimantan and Jambi provinces, Human Rights Watch said in a report. Loss of forest occurs on a massive scale and not only harms local indigenous peoples but is also associated with global climate change.
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Protesters want Morales to repeal a law expanding slash-and-burn farming in drought-stricken regions now alight with blazes.
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Murders of environmental activists and land defenders in the Philippines have risen sharply under President Rodrigo Duterte, an international rights watchdog said Tuesday, alleging his speeches and policies have "emboldened" the killers.
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Since October 2018, 28 victims – including land rights defenders – from Mubende district in Uganda have been illegally detained, arraigned and remanded without trial in prisons outside their jurisdiction. Their charge, they are opposed to land grabbing in their community.
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Consolidated Farming Limited Company Director Essof Alloo has disclosed that the firm will invest US$ 200 million in the project which will have a 10 thousand hectares anchor farm and an out-grower scheme.
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Malaysia's International Trade and Industry Minister Darell Leiking said negotiations in China had seen progress, with most of the issues ironed out. Another meeting will be held in Da Nang, Vietnam, at the end of this month.
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"Their intention is to explore the Tanzania market for a friendly exchanges and common development of bilateral relations and mutual development between Tanzania and China," the manager of the Tanzania Investment Centre and East Africa's Commercial and Logistics Centre Chamber of Commerce (EACLCCC) told reporters.
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A ministry official expects that the FTA with Central America will help expand trade volume and diversify Korea's export market amid the challenging environment with the U.S.- China trade war and Japan's export restrictions against South Korea.
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FROM PCFS MEMBERS AND NETWORKS
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Amid the unabated global killings of land rights defenders, including farmers, agricultural workers, and other small food producers, the Coalition of Agricultural Workers International (CAWI) and PCFS join the calls for justice and accountability in the Philippines, one of the hardest hit by such atrocity against the rural people.
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Millions of people worldwide joined marches and climate strikes Friday calling for "climate justice" to be an ethical obligation and not just an environmental issue.
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CPDE asserts that the only path to effective and sustainable development is to engage the widest possible number of development actors to a common goal which puts the rights of the people and the marginalised at the core of development, and commits to the principles of development effectiveness. It is committed to working together with governments, international organisations, business and other development actors to turn the promise of an effective development cooperation into concrete actions leading to a successful celebration of Busan+10.
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