Open Statement to the APEC Leaders Meeting Mr John Howard and the other representatives of our governments,
Stop making claims that APEC reduces poverty in our countries. We see the reality of grinding poverty and misery every day: * Some 900 million people in this region live below a (problematic) poverty...
It is difficult for APEC veterans to take the whole circus very seriously. It has always been a poor relation (in liberalization terms) to the regional initiatives in Europe and North America that its instigators (led by Australia) intended to match. It continues to limp...
MANILA, Philippines -- A prominent New Zealand intellectual and activist has asked her country’s Prime Minister Helen Clark to personally ask President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to order an end to extrajudicial killings and other human rights violations in the country.
In a letter to Clark dated March 16, a copy of which...
More than 100 representatives from trade unions, labor centers, labor institutions and advocates gathered for the Jobs and Justice Conference last December 7 and 8, 2006 at St. Theresa’s College, Cebu City Philippines.
The conference was organized by the Asia Pacific Research Network (APRN) together with its members, the Ecumenical Institute...
APRN is co-organizer to three events in the upcoming World Social Forum (WSF) 2007. The WSF will be held in Nairobi, Kenya on January 21-24, 2007.
First among these activities is the two-day, multi-event “Asserting Food Sovereignty” scheduled on January 21-22. This event will include public forums, speak out, simultaneous...
