Statements

CPG STATEMENT ON GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS

Written by April Porteria

CPG STATEMENT ON GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS

Bali, Indonesia

22 March 2013

We, members of the Campaign for People’s Goals for Sustainable Development, coming fromgrassroots organizations, labour unions, social movements and non-governmental organizations, make the following statement on the occasion of the fourth and final meeting of the High-Level Panel on the Post-2015 Agenda, in Bali, Indonesia.

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Agartala Indigenous People's Consultation on Dams and Resources Protection in India

Written by April Porteria

The indigenous peoples of Agartala in the North East region of India, met last February 10-11, 2013 to condemn the introduction of more than 200 mega dams and other unsustainable development policies and projects in the region without their free prior and informed consent. The consultation was organized by the Borok People Human Rights Organization, Committee on the Protection of Natural Resources in Manipur, North East Dialogue Forum, Citizens Concern for Dams and Development, Siang Peoples Forum, Mapithel Dam Affected Villagers Organization, People's Movement for Subansiri Valley, Civil Society Women's Organization, All Loktak Lake Areas Fishermen Union, Affected Citizens of Teesta, Centre for Research and Advocacy, Save Sikkim, Initiative for Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples, People's Right to Information and Development, Implementing Society of Mizoram, Federation of Khasi, Jainta and Garo People, All Assam Students Union, Save Mon Federation, All Zeliangrong Students Union, Hmar Inpui United Committee on the Protection of Natural Resources, All Tribal Students Union Manipur, Manab Adhikar Sangram Samiti and the Naga Women's Union.

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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FISHERIES AND GLOBALIZATION STATEMENT

Written by Shanthi

Representatives of 32 organizations of traditional small-scale fishermen and fisherwomen from marine and inland fisheries and their advocates, from 15 countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America met from 19 – 21 September 2012 in Iloilo, Philippines to discuss the destructive impacts of globalization on the fisheries sector and to strategise to develop advocacies for sustainable fisheries sustainable fisheries that uphold the rights and welfare of small-scale fisherfolk and all other oppressed and marginalized sectors of society, and strengthen international solidarity.

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Farmers demand more action, less talk!

Written by Shanthi

CONFERENCE OF THE PARTIES TO THE CONVENTION ON BIOLOGICAL pERSITY

Hyderabad, India, 8 – 19 October 2012: As the 11^th Conference on Parties of the Convention on Biological persity (CBD) draws to a close, the People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty (PCFS) challenges the twenty years of the CBD as offering a façade for the protection of biopersity through its failure to prevent the corporate takeover of nature.

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