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Asia Europe People's Forum VI

June 2007

1 September 2006 (All day)

The Asia Europe People’s Forum (AEPF) will be held on 3-6 September 2006 in Helsinki, Finland. It is the sixth civil society forum to be held in parallel to the biannual Asia Europe Summit (ASEM), offering non-corporate, people-centered alternatives to the neo-liberalism of the official ASEM summit.

TNI Fellows Brid Brennan, Susan George, Achin Vanaik and Hilary Wainwright will attend. TNI will present new research on EU-Asia Free Trade Agreements and a Chinese edition of its acclaimed Reclaiming Public Water book.

Location

Helsinki, Finland

The Asia Europe People’s Forum (AEPF) will be held on 3-6 September 2006 in Helsinki, Finland. It is the sixth civil society forum to be held in parallel to the biannual Asia Europe Summit (ASEM), offering non-corporate, people-centered alternatives to the neo-liberalism of the official ASEM summit.

TNI Fellows Brid Brennan, Susan George, Achin Vanaik and Hilary Wainwright will attend. TNI will present new research on EU-Asia Free Trade Agreements and a Chinese edition of its acclaimed Reclaiming Public Water book. The Institute is also participating in several workshops across the AEPF’s three main themes: Peace and Security, Economic Security and Social Rights and Democracy and Human Rights.

TNI Speakers

- Monday, 4 September, 09.30-11.30 Plenary session - Peace and Security (Cluster 1): Achin Vanaik (Congress hall, 2 1/2 floor)
- Tuesday, 5 September, 09.00-11.00 Plenary session - Economic Security and Social Rights (Cluster 2): Contribution from Susan George (Congress hall, 2 1/2 floor)
- Tuesday, 5 September, 11.00 Workshop Social Movements and Political Parties (from Cluster 3): Hilary Wainwright (Congress hall, 2 1/2 floor)
- Wednesday, 6 September, 11:00 Workshop Peace activists discuss strategies and campaigns (from Cluster 1): Wilbert van der Zeijden (Room Viktor Julius von Wright, 3 1/2 floor)

TNI has co-organised the AEPF since 1996, as one a series of People’s Dialogues to foster civil society collaboration to promote needs-based rather than market-based co-operation.

For more details and the AEPF 6 programme, see www.aepf.net

Documents

- People's Vision: Building Solidarity Across Asia and Europe. Towards a Just, Equal and Sustainable WorldAEPF6 Final Declaration Helsinki, 6 September 2006

- AEPF Address to ASEM at 10. Connecting Civil Societies Presentation by Charles Santiago, Helsinki, September 2006

- Contribution from Susan George Helsinki, 5 September 2006

- Asia-Europe cooperation, not competition, is key to defending social welfare TNI Press Release, 4 September 2006 - Spanish version - Dutch version

- ASEM Warned: Don't use bilaterals to revive WTO agenda
TNI Press Release, Brussels, 31 August 2006

- Privileged Access for Business Lobbyists Undermines ASEM's Credibility
A backgrounder by Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), August 2006 - PDF version

- General AEBF information 6 August 2006

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