India-Pakistan Conference: A Road Map towards Peace at the India International Center (IIC), Delhi
India Pakistan Conference – A Road map towards Peace
Auditorium, India International Centre, New Delhi
10th - 12th January, 2010
Dear Friends,
Greetings!
A
number of organizations and eminent people in India have got together
to organise an ‘India-Pakistan Conference: A Road Map towards Peace’ at
the India International Center (IIC) from 10-12 January 2010.
Both
India and Pakistan have, for the last 62 years, seen many ups and downs
in bilateral relations and talk. But the current phase of composite
dialogue was significant. Four rounds had been completed, and the 5th
round was in progress. The last year’s attacks on Mumbai completely
hijacked this scenario and brought the relationship between the two
countries to breakdown point. This was further intensified by the war
hysteria whipped up by the religious right wing in both the countries.
FOCUS ON INDIA (FOI), Issue: December 2009: Volume VI No. 12
Wednesday, 16 December 2009
Monthly e-newsletter from Focus on the Global South, India
Into
its second week of negotiations at Copenhagen, the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is in a deep crisis. The media has been
rife with reports of leaked texts, closed
room meetings, walk-outs by delegates, influence of corporate lobbyists and
attempts to divide the developing world through coercion and bribery. The
subversion of democracy continues on the streets of Copenhagen as well with
hundreds of young activists being arbitrarily arrested and attacked by the
Danish police (who are hard-pressed to show that the millions spent on security
were not in vain). Further, civil society participation is being curtailed
during the crucial last leg of the negotiations with only 90 NGO
representatives out of the more than 15,000 registered allowed into the
official venue on 18 December.
The
outrage at this thoroughly undemocratic process is growing and on 16 December
activists from the Climate Justice Now and Climate Justice Action networks will
march to the Bella Centre (the venue of the talks in the fringes of the city)
and will be joined by people from the inside to hold a peoples assembly to
‘reclaim power. For more information on these activities and updates see www.climate-justice-now.org and www.climate-justice-action.org
FOCUS ON INDIA, Issue: November 2009: Volume VI No. 11
Wednesday, 16 December 2009
Monthly e-newsletter from Focus on the Global South, India
Content summary:
With the Parliament winter session slated to begin from November 19, the heat is on the UPA. Fishworkers from Kerala marched to the Parliament on November 11 demanding an annulment of the ASEAN-India FTA before it kicks in from January 2010. For a change, the Government of Kerala is fully backing the fishworkers and has also demanded that the UPA re-think the hurriedly signed FTA which is expected to have adverse impacts on the coastal states fisheries and agriculture sectors. The National Alliance of Peoples Movements will also converge near the Parliament with a massive action starting today (November 18) in which over a thousand activists from at least 15 states will hold meetings on displacement and development issues. More specifically they will turn their ire on the Resettlement and Rehabilitation Act and the amendments to the Land Acquisition Act; the NAPM has been consistently campaigning that both acts promote private and corporate interests over public good.
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