VOICES RISING
YEAR III - VOL 3. Nº158
October 21,
2005
CONTENT
1 - INTERNATIONAL ADULT LEARNERS’ WEEK 2005
2 - REPORT BY IALLA II GRADUATE
3 - REGISTRATION DEADLINE FOR THE POLYCENTRIC WSF 2006
4- THE SECOND SOUTHERN AFRICA SOCIAL FORUM
5 - COURSE “ESSENTIAL SKILLS IN FAMILY LEARNING”
6 - CALL FOR INTERNATIONAL ACTIONS AGAINST GATS-WTO & THE PRIVATIZATION
OF BASIC SERVICES
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1 - INTERNATIONAL ADULT LEARNERS’ WEEK 2005
Oslo, Norway, 24 26 October
Solidarity Message to the International Adult Learners' Week 2005
By Kasiita Ismail,
ulalaki@netscape.net
Paul Bélanger
International Council for Adult Education (ICAE)
Acevedo Díaz 1600 apto. 1002
11200 Montevideo
Uruguay
Dear Dr. Bélanger,
Thank you for the work you are doing in promoting literacy and Adult
Learning in this World, on behalf of Adult learners and on behalf of
myself as adult learner l would like this opportunity to highlight few
things we are doing in adult learning programme.
As you know ICAE is the one who spear heading to declare to involve
adult learners as a direct beneficiaries of literacy and adult learning
programmes in 1990. As aware UNESCO and other Adult education
stakeholders have been holding international Adult learners' week, in
2000 it was Brazil, 2004 it was South Africa, this year it will be
Norway.
The purpose of this letter is to request you kindly to send solidarity
message to the international adult learners' week which will take place
in Norway from 24th- 26th October 2005.
I hope to hear from you soon
Best regard from ULALA.
Kasiita lsmail.
National Coordinator.
Uganda Literacy and Adult Learners' Association (ULALA).
P O BOX 22439 Kampala Uganda,
Tela;256-77465909,
Fax:256-41534160,
E.mail:ulalaki@netscape.net
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International Adult Learners Week 2005
“Education for All in an Era of Increasing Mobility: The Implications
for Adult Learning”
Oslo, Norway, 24 26 October
Provisional Programme
Monday, 24 October: Bridging Gaps through EFA in the Context of
Mobility
9:00-11:00 Registration (Coffee)
11:00-12:00 Opening
· Ms Kristin Clemet, Minister of Education
and Research, Norway
· Mr Adama Ouane, UNESCO Institute for
Education (UIE)
· Mr Sturla Bjerkaker, Norwegian Association
for Adult Education (Voksenopplaeringsforbundet)
12:00-13:30 Lunch (Registration continues)
- 13:30-15:00
Keynote speeches on EFA
· A Government Representative: Mr Tarso
Genro, Minister of Education, Brazil
· A Representative from a Cooperation Agency:
Mr Desmond Bermingham, Education & Skills, Department for International
Development (DfID), UK
· A Representative from the NGO sector: Ms
Maria Lourdes-Kahn, Asian and South Pacific Bureau of Adult Education
(ASPBAE)
15:00-15:30 Coffee
15:30-17:30 Workshops
1. EFA Policies and Practices in Adult & Non-Formal Learning
2. Cooperating for EFA with a Focus on Adult & Non-Formal Learning
3. EFA and Adult Literacy
4. Ensuring Diversity through EFA
5. EFA for Addressing Gender Equity
6. Promoting Inclusion through EFA
19:00. Dinner
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Tuesday, 25 October: Acquisition, Recognition and
Transferability of Life Skills in the Perspective of Increasing Mobility
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- 9:00-12:00 - Study Visits
- 12:00-13:30 -Lunch
- 13:30-14:30 - Keynote speeches on Life Skills
· The research perspective
· The OECD ALL Survey Results and the Results
of the Norwegian Supplementary Survey on Migrants: Mr Egil Gabrielsen,
University of Stavangar, Norway
14:30-15:00 - Coffee Break
15:00-17:00- Workshops
1. Notions and Practices of Life Skills
2. International Initiatives to Promote Life Skills
3. National Strategies for Life Skills
4. Mechanisms for Recognizing Life Skills
18:00-22:00 -Award Ceremony and Cultural Programme
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Wednesday, 26 October: Shaping Mobility: Adult Learning for
Diversity and Participation
- 9:00-11:00- Workshops
1. Learning for Diversity
2. Integrating Different Populations
3. Mobilizing for Learning and Participation through Learning Festivals
4. Influencing Policy and Provision through Learners Networks
- 11:00-11:30 -
Coffee Break
11:30-12:30- Pre-selected participants giving an account of their
view on the preceding two days of the conference.
12:30-13:30- Closure
· Synthesis of the conference (by general
Rapporteur)
· Outlook by Mr Peter Smith, UNESCO ADG/ED
13:30 - Lunch
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2 - REPORT BY IALLA II GRADUATE
By Sofía Ávila, Colombia,
sofiavilab@gmail.com
ICAE Academy of Lifelong Learning Advocacy, IALLA, a place
for learning and the training of translators for social action
Over the space of three weeks, men and women from different
countries got together to develop the ICAE Academy of Lifelong Learning
Advocacy (IALLA). Through their activities and experience, all present
were involved in the subject of adult education, lifelong learning or
popular education, the reason which brought us together to share and
increase our knowledge and competitiveness in order to act in the wide
and challenging field of adult education, which in recent decades has
become a crucial point on agendas and the discussion of the wide and
varied social movement, in order for it to be established as a public
state policy.
The Institute took place between 27th July and 11th August. The location
where these talks, cultural exchange and knowledge sharing took place
was in Buskerud Folkehogskole, Norway, in the city of Darbu, in the
midst of extensive fields of wheat and near a lake which gave us a
sumptuous and relaxed surrounding and was a refreshing alternative at
the end of the day.
For three weeks we were blessed with the presence of social actors who
shared with us their empirical knowledge, the result of years of study
and political activism, commitment to the social cause and especially to
life long learning, popular education, education for adults, etc. Each
individual contributed from their own cultural, social, intellectual and
professional background to the resignification, deconstruction and
construction of new ideas, strategies and sentiments in response to our
duty as activists in the field of advocacy in the area of lifelong
learning.
In my opinion, the experience of these three weeks is a perfect example
of education as a right, as in a space for the exchange of experiences,
which make up the developing of new ideas, for the fulfilling of
individual and collective potential, the forming of new strategies of
advocacy for the transformation, but especially these three weeks
enabled us to “learn, do, be and live together”, which is fundamental in
the wide field of education for life as a concept, exercise and policy.
However, the task of training which we have taken on did not begin or
end in this Institute: it has been a crucial space for the ratification
and gestation of new projects within the area of commitment and action
on advocacy for lifelong learning as a fundamental right that is
indivisible and inalienable.
We shared many discussions, experiences, questions, doubts, and emotions
in relation to the issues that were introduced and presented, issues
that are not solved in a simple classification; for this reason and
with the aim of presenting this report in an orderly manner that is
accessible to others, I will use the following “focal points in the
development of the course” under which I organise a large part, although
not all of the content we studied, independently of its deconstruction
and reconstruction, over the three weeks of the Institute.
From the experience which the institute became I refer to four
fundamental focal points of development: i. Cognitive, ii.
Praxiological, iii. Attitudinal and iv. Methodological, each of which
is neither rigid nor schematical but rather a practical tool of bringing
together and organising the process. The Cognitive section contains the
conceptual part and all that is related to the diverse contributions of
the participants and presenters from their experiences, which
contributed to the deconstruction and formation of knowledge and ideas.
The Praxiological section refers to the propositive part of the course
in relation to the implementation of new methodologies and strategies of
action and advocacy, parting from the base of the knowledge
reconstructed here. The Attitudinal section is related to the
resignification and ratification of knowledge and commitment in our
political action. Finally, the Methodological part includes all the
technical and didactic support which supported our formative,
informative and deformative process.
THE COGNITIVE
During the institute wide and varied concepts were introduced, ideas
and outlooks of the world in relation to the current context, spaces of
advocacy action and logic in the area of education for life. In
summary: a contextualization of worldwide problems, dynamics and current
campaigns is made, through the presentation of key themes such as
The complex of Global Governance which presents to us a
vertical World where institutions such as the International Monetary
Fund, the World Bank and other of the Washington Consensus,
organizations such as the World Trade Organisation, transnationals and
governments such as that of the United States which pressurize
international agreements and national legislation with the typical
regulation of private, imperialist (from the logic of capital) and
fundamentalist interests. Gigi Francisco presents the current impacts
on the nation states and the national and international civil dynamics
in her analysis: Globalization, Development and Geopolítics.
Another relevant aspect in this contextualization is introduced from an
environmental perspective on the specific subject of global warming.
The introduction of concepts such as lifelong education, advocacy, civil
society, state, intersectionality, networks, amongst others, acted as a
support for the analysis of the context, global activism and the
identification of spaces of action in relation to advocacy in education
for life, the spaces to which special attention was given for the
exercise of active citizenship: The World Social Forum as a place of
learning and action where civil society is the main protagonist; the
conferences of United Nations where society plays a less important, even
limited, role as opposed to that of the nation states, which can be seen
in the task of establishing practices of action such as network-based
working and strategies of communication, representation, mobilization
and action which this implies.
During the development of the course the genealogy of the social
movement and of the conferences of United Nations which establish a
thread between processes of advocacy and social activism which allows us
to see, as in the case of the concepts that these change over the space
of time, conditioned by a temporality and speciality according to the
evolution of the context in accordance with the circumstances,
necessities and new paradigms. In synthesis, the revision, development
and construction of concepts is a key exercise for the learning and the
construction of knowledge, it is a tool for the analysis and
understanding of the current context and for the definition and
identification of spaces of action for social movement.
Advocacy is an effort by individuals and groups to put a problem in the
public sphere, on the political agenda (Gigi Francisco) and from these
supposed different instances they have advocated for the right to
education for life, an example of thisis the work which ICAE and REPEM
amongst others- carry out in different spaces of learning and action
such as: The World Social Forum, United Nations Conferences such as
CONFINTEAs, Global Call against Poverty, Global Campaign for Education
and the actual space which constitutes their work as a network.
THE PRAXIOLOGICAL
A fundamental part of the work which we carried out during the three
weeks of the course was the analytical and propositive part in relation
to subjects such as lifelong education, HIV/AIDS, objectives of the
millennium, the World Social Forum, United Nations Conferences, and the
concepts and issues introduced by the facilitators. The proposals and
strategies of action and advocacy in the subject of lifelong education
and the search for a better world, from civil society and within these
spaces can be classified as strategies of communication, mobilization,
training, education, work as a network (Internet working),
organisational strengthening, the securing of resources, at all levels,
with the aim of working for change and to achieve a better world with
equality and dignity for all.
These proposals were the product of work, discussions and group
plenaries, made up of the participants, who from their different
experiences and knowledge contributed, each in a different way, to the
construction of strategies and actions to advocate for a lifelong
education in the public and international sphere and in the
different spaces where civil society and the diverse manifestations of
the social movement can participate.
THE ATTITUDINAL
The course, as a space to learn, to do, to be and to live
together, was at the same time an opportunity to ratify and value
the work which we have been getting on with from our different
organisations and networks, advocating for a education for life, for
adults or popular, depending on the differences particular to each
regional, national or local context. As the course went along
relationships were consolidated, knowledge exchange flowed and each day
we became better cultural translators, our desire to contribute to the
transformation of the world increased, our conviction of our acts
strengthened and all thanks to the knowledge that we built up during
these three weeks of learning.
THE METODOLOGICAL
The methodological support for the construction of new knowledge
within the course was key to strengthen our cognitive processes. The
visual support was constant and greatly facilitated the retention of
subjects as well as promoting reflection on the subjects. The group work
promoted the strategization and was a valid exercise of interaction. The
implementation of exercises and activities enabled the reflection,
relaxed atmosphere and bringing together of different ways and the
creation of strategies and actions.
In the search for a better world education is a fundamental part of the
process. Finding and facilitating spaces for training, for exchange and
social strengthening is necessary for the promotion of human rights, the
campaign for equality and dignity and for strategizing in networks
advocacy for lifelong education. In this sense, the opportunity which
ICAE gives us is fundamental for the realization of new methodologies,
interventions and actions. The ICAE Academy for the Advocacy of Lifelong
Learning, is set up in a space of learning so that persons representing
different organizations get together with a common objective: the
promotion of a fundamental human right: the Right to Education, in
public spheres and on the agendas of the social movement and governments
and other important spaces for the exercising of active citizenship,
such as United Nations.
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3 - REGISTRATION DEADLINE FOR THE POLYCENTRIC WSF 2006
This is a short message to update you about the registration
activities for the WSF 2006.
More than 200 activities have been registered for the Polycentric WSF
2006, which will be held in Bamako (Mali), Caracas (Venezuela) and
Karachi (Pakistan), on January 2006. The deadline to register activities
is October 31st. Please, it is very important that your organization do
not register on the very last minute, since the system is usually slow
and unsteady due to a great deal of accesses. Click the link below to
find how to register.
http://www.forumsocialmundial.org.br/main.php?id_menu=8_2&cd_language=1
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4 - THE SECOND SOUTHERN AFRICA SOCIAL FORUM
Report by Ana Agostino,
anajairo@mweb.co.za
The 2nd Southern Africa Social Forum took place in
Harare, Zimbabwe from 13 to 15 October 2005 under the theme “People’s
Resistance to Neo-Liberalism”. As most of you know, the World Social
Forum is not an organisation or a formally established network but "an
open meeting place for reflective thinking, democratic debate of ideas,
formulation of proposals, free exchange of experiences and inter-linking
for effective action, by groups and movements of civil society that are
opposed to neo-liberalism and to domination of the world by capital and
any form of imperialism, and are committed to building a society centred
on the human person". (From the WSF Charter of Principles and cited in
the invitation to the Southern Africa Forum).
Within that space, GEO/ICAE has actively been involved since the early
beginnings of the Forum and it forms part of the international council.
We felt that it was important to participate at the Southern African
edition and share information on the common efforts that many women’s
organisations have been developing during 2005 as part of the GCAP
feminist task force and Gender and GCAP in Africa. Within that context,
we proposed to the organisers the presentation of a workshop called
“Gender perspectives on the MDGs”.
One of the aims of the Forum is to be able to articulate, join efforts,
find areas of common work, without the need of reaching strict
agreements or common plans of action. Following that line of work,
similar proposals were brought together in common activities. So we
shared one workshop on the MDGs with Action Aid Malawi. The workshop
took place under the topic: "Eradicating poverty, MDGs. Survival
Economics." Action Aid Malawi's presentation was called "A Critique of
MDGs. Are they attainable by 2015?"
I presented GCAP, the reasons for the emergence of the Feminist Task
Force and for Gender and GCAP in Africa; made a brief presentation on
the activities of the year, and also of the achievements of women during
the World Summit in spite of it being a failure in many areas
(particularly poverty eradication). I also shared the various criticisms
that the women's movement has made to the MDGs included those presented
during the interactive hearings at the United Nations. I was able to
distribute the tool kit prepared collectively in Nairobi (thanks to
Hellen who sent them right on time!) and a debate took place on what
should be done now after the summit is over. There was a shared feeling
that a network of similar minded organisations should be formed to
follow-up on governments. I invited those present to join the existing
networks (GCAP, feminist task force, Gender and GCAP).
People present at the workshop were coming from various backgrounds and
countries: project management organisation from Zambia, fishermen
association from Mauritius, association of business women from Malawi,
informal economy association from Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt
and Development, Youth and Children Rights' Association also from
Zimbabwe, People's Health Movement (Equinet) from Tanzania and also from
South Africa and Action Aid from Malawi, among others.
There were other workshops on MDGs and poverty presented by various
organisations from different countries of the region.
I also attended two other workshops, one on Gender and one on Debt.
The one on Gender dealt mainly with sharing of experiences from women’s
organisations in the region (situations they attend to, ways of working,
limitations in terms of resources, whether the environment they work in
is conducive or restricts their possibilities of engagement, among other
topics). Salma Maoulidi from Sisters Foundation in Tanzania, member of
GEO and also active in Gender and GCAP, was one of the presenters in
this workshop and she will also send a report. It was a good opportunity
to meet many women from the region, and also to hear first hand
testimonies of their experiences.
The one of Debt analysed the situation of foreign debt in several
countries (Zambia, South Africa, Zimbabwe) and what can civil society
organisations do towards cancellation.
The methodology of the Forum is based on multiple activities that take
place simultaneously and are presented and coordinated by organisations
which propose them. The areas covered in these various workshops were:
- Poverty eradication
- Land and rural struggles, housing and evictions
- Constitutionalism
- Trade Justice
- African States
- Gender
- Labour
- HIV/AIDS and Health
- Media
- Housing
- Youth
On Friday afternoon there was a plenary discussion on the future of the
WSF in general and the Southern Africa Social Forum in particular. The
debate concentrated mainly on how to move forward in terms of concrete
alternatives to neoliberalism, and whether the Forum should be a space
of debate and encounter or if concrete proposals should also be
formulated and implemented. It is an open discussion that will continue
at the Africa Forum (from 24 to 29 January 2006 in Bamako, Mali) and at
the WSF, of which the next edition will take place in Nairobi, Kenya, in
January 2007.
All workshops and other activities had rapporteurs and a session was
dedicated to have report backs from the thematic sectors. I will send
these reports when I have them.
As many of you know, the situation in Zimbabwe is not easy, and it was a
great achievement to have the Forum in Harare. Day to day life is a
struggle, mainly due to the lack of fuel and all the limitations that
result from this. Moving around in Harare is quite difficult so it was
very encouraging to see how many people had made the effort to be there,
to participate, to get involved. Many women shared their difficulties at
the workshops and debates took place on how to make regional solidarity
a concrete experience. Zimbabwe and other Southern African countries are
facing food shortages, lack of essential goods such as medicines, and
there are also limitations in terms of freedom of expression. Precisely
because of that, many participants celebrated the opportunity of meeting
so many other people from the continent and having open debates within
the framework of the Social Forum.
The Africa Social Forum will be a great opportunity to present women's
views on the challenges we took on this year and how we see the process
ahead after all the events of 2005 are over, but the reality we want to
work on, enhance, and bring closer to our dreams, is still challenging
us. Moreblessings (Afrodad) and Idaishe (Mwengo) from Zimbabwe were very
active at the Forum and we agreed upon that it will be very good to
start working soon towards the January meetings in Bamako. Please let us
know if any of you are planning to go, so that we can start working on a
common strategy.
As the motto of the Forum says, another world (another Southern Africa)
is possible, and we want to be active dreaming it and building it!!!
Warm greetings,
Ana Agostino
GEO/ICAE, South Africa
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5 - COURSE “ESSENTIAL SKILLS IN FAMILY LEARNING”
Radu Szekely, Finland,
radu.szekely@vnf.fi
Dear Colleague,
We have the pleasure of inviting you to take part in the course
'Essential Skills in Family Learning', which will be organised in
Karjaa, Finland, between 17 and 22 February 2006. The course has been
registered in the Comenius/Grundtvig Catalogue of the European
Commission under the number FI-2006-004, and it is therefore eligible
for grants that would cover your travel, subsistence, and participation
costs. Please contact us or your Socrates National Agency for details.
We would also kindly ask you to forward this information to other
organisations or persons that might be interested.
Yours sincerely,
Radu Szekely
P.S. The course is now on its second run, following the successful
evaluation received from participants in August. Below are just a couple
of the comments made by participants post-course:
'Fantastic efforts and input from the course team. The diversity and
delivery of the programme gave me a stimulating wealth of knowledge that
is both memorable and immediately applicable. Overall a very enriching
experience, which will have wide-ranging consequences in other European
countries.'
'Thank you so much for everything. I have participated in many courses
abroad, but only rarely found people so kind and efficient as you. Thank
you and hasta luego!'
'Very valuable and enjoyable.' (Julia Bowles, The United Kingdom)
'The training team helped us feel as if we were members of the group on
an equal basis. I was happy and lucky to have been here. Keep up the
good work!'
For more information about this course, please contact:
Radu Szekely
Lecturer, MA
Coordinator of International Affairs
Västra Nylands folkhögskola
Strandpromenaden 1
FI-10300 Karjaa, Finland
tel: +358-19-2226041
fax: +358-19-2226011
www.vnf.fi
radu.szekely@vnf.fi
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6 - CALL FOR INTERNATIONAL ACTIONS AGAINST GATS-WTO & THE PRIVATIZATION
OF BASIC SERVICES
Jubilee South APMDD Secretariat
Lidy Nacpil, lidy@jubileesouth.org
Dear Friends,
Once again we are circulating the Call for International Actions Against
GATS-WTO and the Privatization of Basic Services, this time with the
list of signatories thus far.
If you have not signed up, please do so, and help circulate the call.
The first of the two days of action, October 19, is only a few days from
now and we hope you are already preparing for your protest activity on
that day. October 19 is the first day of the WTO General Council meeting
in Geneva.
Statements can be faxed to the offices of the WTO. The numbers are:
Fax: (41-22) 731 42 06 (Number for General Inquiries)
Fax: (41-22) 739 54 58 (Number for Information and Media Relations
Division)
Fax: (41-22) 739 54 60 (Director General's office)
Fax: (41-22) 721 42 06 (Secretariat)
The next date for International Actions is December 14, during the week
of the HK WTO Ministerial Meeting.
Please do send us copies of your statements and information on your
plans and actions. We will do a summary and circulate.
Thanks!
Jubilee South APMDD Secretariat
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Call for International Actions against GATS WTO & the Privatization of
Basic Services
Services Out of WTO, WTO out of Services! No to GATS! No New Deal in
Hong Kong!
In the run up to the December 2005 Ministerial Conference of the World
Trade Organization (WTO) in Hong Kong, trade negotiators are under
intense pressure by their respective governments to achieve a
"successful" outcome in the negotiations for the Doha Development Round,
which includes expansion of the General Agreement on Trade in Services
(GATS). As WTO leaders have tried to ensure by stealthily hatching the
July Framework in 2004, services liberalization agreements should be
accelerated and national polices must be made with greater flexibility,
such that more markets are pried open to global trade not just in
manufactured goods but in services as well.
In truth, there is more than just the acceleration of services
liberalization in GATS. Contrary to how it is packaged, GATS is not the
trade agreement that it is but one-sided investment tool that gives
global corporations increasingly unhampered access to markets and human
services, and grants them as much if not even greater rights than
citizens to exploit such access. The WTO and the European Commission
have said as much,respectively flaunting GATS as the first multilateral
agreement on investments and principally as an instrument of business.
Practically all sectors, from water delivery and transportation to
health and education are considered services under GATS. Any barrier to
global capital in these sectors, including national safeguards against
inhuman working conditions or environmental degradation will be steadily
demolished. In fact, the very sovereign rights of nations to protect the
interests of citizens and uphold their welfare, above all, have no place
under the GATS framework.
Other agents of global corporate domination -- the World Bank and the
International Monetary Fund -- have long imposed policy conditionalities
of liberalization, deregulation and privatization upon South countries,
with disastrous and fatal outcomes for entire populations and economies
of the
developing world. Governments have been pressured to deregulate and
privatize public services, like water, power and health, depriving
millions of the basic requirements for a decent life. Poor farmers,
workers, women and children severely suffer the adverse impacts of
surrendering control of public services to private corporations.
GATS-WTO further limits developing countries' chances of development and
survival. Water resources and services, recognized as crucial to
development, are particularly in danger of commodification and
privatization. European water giants have already been making large
investments in many countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The
interests of firms like Suez, Vivendi and Thames Water are clearly
behind the European Union's push for the inclusion of water services in
the coverage of GATS.
Experiences across South countries show that the basic rights of
people,especially the poor and the marginalized, are being progressively
eroded by governments surrendering such critical services sectors as
health, water, power, housing and education to private big business.
Many countries in the South have suffered outbreaks of cholera and other
gastro-intestinal diseases because safe water and basic health care are
increasingly being made accessible only to those with the capacity to
pay.
GATS proponents deceitfully argue that governments can choose to keep
certain sectors closed and that privatization of basic social services
is not a GATS requirement. But GATS has very clear bias for private
business and non-transparent WTO mechanisms favor developed nations, and
processes allow them to apply intense pressure on developing countries.
It is most urgent to raise our voices and create a strong wave of
international opposition against GATS and the WTO. From now to December,
let us mobilize in our own countries and manifest our protests in
various ways.
We call on social movements, people's organizations and non-government
organizations to hold regionally coordinated actions on October 19 to
protest against GATS and privatization, at the start of the WTO General
Council meeting in Geneva.
At the forthcoming 6th Ministerial Conference in Hong Kong, let us raise
our voices, collectively pool our strengths to mobilize against GATS,
and mark December 14 as the International Day of Protest Against GATS
and privatization!
Signed:
(Please sign on and circulate widely. Send signatures and information
about your planned actions to
<mailto:secretariat@jubileesouth.org>apmdd@jubileesouth.org &
<mailto:secretariat@jubileesouth.org>secretariat@jubileesouth.org)
ASIA/PACIFIC -Regional
Jubilee South - APMDD
Asian Regional Exchange for New Alternatives
Focus on the Global South- India, Thailand, Philippines
Via Campesina - Asia
Asia Forum for Human Rights and Development
Asian Migrants Center
Migrant Forum in Asia
NGO Forum on ADB
Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development
Documentation for Action Groups in Asia
International Gender and Trade Network - Asia
AFRICA - Regional
Africa Jubilee South
AFRODAD
ARGENTINA
Dialogo 2000
AUSTRIA
Center for Encounter and Active Non-Violence
AZERBAIJAN
Center for Civic Initiatives
BANGLADESH
Community Development Library
Lokoj Institute
Bangladesh Agricultural Farm Labor Federation
Bangladesh Sramajibi Kendra
Karmojibi Nari
Bangladesh Jatiya Sromik Jote
Jatiya Krishok Jote
BanglaPraxis
Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication
VOICE
WARBE
BELGIUM
11.11.11 Coalition
International Young Christian Workers (IYCW)
BRAZIL
Jubileo Sul - Brazil
CANADA
KAIROS : Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives
CAMBODIA
Womyn's Agenda for Change
Partnership for Development in Kampuchea
CAMEROON
Centre for Promotion of Social and Economic Alternatives
CHAD
Association Tchadienne por la Non-Violence (AINV)
COLOMBIA
Mesa de Trabajo Mujeres y Economia
Asociacion Nacional de Empleados de la Republica
COTE D' IVOIRE
Forum National Su La Dette Et La Pauvrete'
CUBA
CIEM
ECUADOR
Accion Ecologica
Alianza De Los Pueblos Del Sur Acreedores De Deuda Ecologica/ Southern
Peoples Ecological Debt Creditors Alliance
Comite Trabajadores Petroindustrial
Comite de Empresa Trabajadores Electrica Loja
CETAPE - Por La Unificacion Sindical
EL SALVADOR
Red Sinti Techan ( Maiz del Pueblo)
FINLAND
Network Institute for Global Democratisation- NIGD
FRANCE
Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières (ESSF)
HAITI
PAPDA
HONDURAS
Bloque Popular
HONG KONG
HKPA- Hong Kong People's Alliance on WTO
Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions,
Hong Kong Christian Industrial Committee
Justice & Peace Commission of the Hong Kong Catholic Diocese
Filipino Domestic Helpers General Union
Zt Teng
INDIA
Bharat Gyan Vigyan Samiti
National Confederation of Officers Associations of Central Public Sector
Undertakings
India Social Action Forum
People's Monitoring Group on Electricity Regulation
The Association of Karnataka Farmers
Centre for Organization, Research and Education
River Basin Movement
Rural Volunteers Centre-Assam
All Assam Krishak Mukti Sangram Samitee
Bhumi Putra Bhumi Adhikar Suraksha Mancha-Assam
INDONESIA
Koalisi Anti-Utang
International NGO Forum on Indonesian Development
KRUHA - People's Coalition for the Rights to Water
Working Group on Power Sector Restructuring
Transportation and Delivery Workers Federation
Migrant CARE
Institute for Global Justice
ITALY
Redazione A Sud
JAPAN
Anti WTO / ATTAC
Jubilee Kyushu on World Debt and Poverty
Peace Boat
KOREA
Korean People's Action Against FTAS and WTO (KOPA)
Korean Confederation of Trade Unions
Federation of Korean Trade Unions
Korean Public Services Union
Korean Government Employees' Union
Korean Labour Social Network on Energy
People's Health Coalitions for Equitable Society
Korean Catholic Farmers Movement
Korean Education Solidarity
Altogether
MALAYSIA
Monitoring Sustainability of Globalization
Friends of the Earth
MALDIVES
Society for Health Education
MOZAMBIQUE
Economic Justice Coalition
NEPAL
South Asia Alliance for Poverty Eradication
Rural Reconstruction Nepal
All Nepal Women's Association
General Federation of Nepalese Trade Unions
Center for Human Rights and Democratic Studies
Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists
NETHERLANDS
Dutch GATS Platform
Transnational Institute- TNI
NEW ZEALAND
ARENA- Action Research and Education Network of Aotearoa
NORWAY
The IGNIS Foundation
PAKISTAN
Muttehida Labour Federation
People's Rights Movement
Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum
Anjuman Asia Awam (Association of Peoples of Asia Pakistan Chapter)
Labor Party Pakistan
PANAMA
Pastoral Social-Laita
PARAGUAY
Foro Popular Por La Energia
PHILIPPINES
Freedom from Debt Coalition
Stop the New Round Coalition
BMP- Filipino Workers Solidarity
Railway Workers Union
SANLAKAS
KALAYAAN - Movement for People's Freedom
MAKALAYA
Confederation of Independent Unions
KPP- Philippine Housing Rights Coalition
Alternate Forum for Research in Mindanao
WomanHealth Philippines
PUERTO RICO
Latin American Council of Churches (CLAI)
Puertoriquena Contra Al Alca
SENEGAL
African Forum on Alternatives
SOUTH AFRICA
SEATINI
Alternative Information and Development Center (AIDC)
SRI LANKA
Movement for National Land and Agricultural Reform
National Fisheries Solidarity
United Federation of Labor
Lawyers for Human Rights and Development
TAIWAN
Workers' Democracy Association
TANZANIA
Tanzania Gender Networking Program
Tanzania Association of NGOs (TANGO)
THAILAND
PSI Thai Affiliates Council
Assembly of the Poor
Labour Union of Provincial Waterworks Authority
Labour Union of Electricity Generating Authority
NHA Union
Public Health
Communication Worker's Union
Farmer's Federations Association for Development
MEAWU
LUMWA
Global Alliance Against Trafficking in Women
People's Coalition Party
USA
Jubilee USA Network
Center for Economic Justice.
50 Years is Enough!
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns
Stop HIV/AIDS in India Initiative, Washington DC
ZIMBABWE
Ecumenical Support Services
Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development
Southern Africa Peoples' Solidarity Network
* Also adopted by the participants of the Conference on WTO, Development
and Migration, July 2005