SAARC/Alternative People's Regionalism

Kathmandu, 6th September 2015: Dr Hasan Mahmud MP, the Chairman of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Ministry of Environment and Forest of Bangladesh urges South Asian civil societies to develop mass awareness on regional togetherness and common issues in the region so that politicians can work together. Mr. Hasan speaks while...

Kathmandu, 4th September 2015. A three-day meeting of South Asian civil society and parliamentarians on SDG and Climate Change is jointly organized by Beyond Copenhagen Collective and Pairvi (Public Advocacy Initiatives for Rights and Values in India) of India in Transnational Justice Institute in Kathmandu. The inauguration session of the...

Speakers at a seminar in Katmandu, Nepal on Monday proposed that the least development countries (LDC) along with the developing countries should have been able to exercise their right to ensure food security for their poor people. Though WTO (World Trade Organization) thinks that this food security agenda will...

Katmandu, Nov 23, 2014: Speakers at a seminar on Sunday said, roles of SAARC countries in the UN process on climate change are not unified. They said, we need unified position from the SAARC countries in negotiation process in the UNFCC because there are other groups like LDC /...

Dhaka, 3rd November 2011. Today eighteen right groups organization and network under the banner of People’s SAARC organized a human chain and rally in front of national press club to place their demands on the eve of SAARC Maldives summit to be held during 9th and 10th Nov, they...

Dhaka, 20th January, 2011, the civil society organization and their representatives of South Asian countries urged to SAARC leaders to play a pro-active role to fulfill the aspiration of the poor people of South Asia, in a press conference title “ Peoples’ SAARC on ‘Envisioning New South Asia: Peoples’...

Discussants in the People’s SAARC seminar today laid emphasis on increasing democratization of state to invigorate the development of a secularism at all levels to combat the growth of religious extremism in the society. They also laid emphasis on creating a SAARC parliamentarian forum to bring the legislators all countries together...

Human right activists and civil society leaders from all eight SAARC countries at a seminar in the city today held soul searching discussions on how to expedite regional integration breaking apart the shackle of elite run traditional politics. The civil society leaders also laid emphasis on evolving a new growth strategy and...

Dhaka, 17th April 2010. Today Bangladesh National Committee on People’s SAARC, a coalition of civil society right groups announced three-day programs in a press conference held at Dhaka Reporters Unity. On the eve of the 16th SAARC Summit to be held in Bhutan on 28 and 29 April, this...

Dhaka, 28 April 2010. Today, on day of inauguration of the 16th SAARC summit in Bhutan, the People’s SAARC Bangladesh Chapter, a coalition of civil society groups in Dhaka, demanded visa free South Asia on the way forward to People’s Union in the region. They also circulated a written...