It’s “All Systems Go” for Largest ASEAN Civil Society Conference in Myanmar

It’s “all systems go” for the ASEAN Civil Society Conference/ASEAN Peoples’ Forum (ACSC/APF) 2014, which will be held in Yangon on March 21-23. The conference, expected to attract 1,200 participants from diverse grassroots, national and regional organizations, could be the largest regional civil society conference held in Myanmar in recent years. This week, members of […]

ASEAN Civil Society Organizations Reaffirms Commitment for Independent Peoples’ Forum at 4th Regional Consultation Meeting

Participants of the 4th Regional Consultation Meeting reinforced their commitment to maintain inclusiveness and independence of the ASEAN Civil Society Conference/ASEAN Peoples’ Forum (ACSC/APF) 2014. The ACSC/APF, which will be held in Yangon on March 21-23, could be the largest regional civil society conference held in Myanmar in contemporary history.

ပြင့္လင္းၿပီး အမ်ားပါ၀င္သည့္ အာဆီယံလူထုညီလာခံက်င္းပႏိုင္ရန္ လူထုအေျချပဳအဖဲြ႔မ်ား ျပင္ဆင္

ရန္ကုန္ ၊ ျမန္မာ

လာမည့္ ၂၀၁၄ ခုႏွစ္ အာဆီယံထိပ္သီးအစည္းအေ၀းမတိုင္မီက်င္းပမည့္ အာဆီယံလူထုညီလာခံ (ASEAN Civil Society Conference (ACSC)/ ASEAN People’s Forum (APF) တစ္ခုကိုပြင့္လင္းစြာႏွင့္ လူအမ်ား ပါ၀င္သည့္ညီလာခံအျဖစ္ က်င္းပႏိုင္ရန္အတြက္ လူထုအေျချပဳ အဖဲြ႔အစည္းမ်ားက ထိုညီလာခံက်င္းပရန္ႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္သည့္ ျပင္ဆင္မႈမ်ားအေၾကာင္းကို အသိေပး အေၾကာင္းၾကားလိုက္သည္။

Civil Society Prepare for Open and Inclusive ASEAN Civil Society Conference

Civil society organizations called for open and inclusive ASEAN Civil Society Conference (ACSC) / ASEAN Peoples’ Forum (APF) to be held next year ahead of the Summit, and presented their action plan for organizing the conference.

“Myanmar has now taken up its responsibility as the chair of ASEAN. We hope that this will include providing the space for civil society from Myanmar to come together with civil society groups and networks from the region to discuss issues that matter to us and make recommendations to the ASEAN governments,” said U Aung Myo Min, Executive Director of Equality Myanmar […]

Progress of Preparation for the ASEAN Civil Society Conference/ASEAN People’s Forum (ACSC/APF) 2014

Members of National Organizing Committee of ACSC/APF 2014 and representatives of Myanmar civil society organizations (CSOs) met with representatives of regional and ASEAN national CSOs from Cambodia, Laos, Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia and, Singapore on August 4 and 5 in Yangon to plan for the ASEAN Civil Society Conference/ASEAN People’s Forum (ACSC/APF) during Myanmar’s chair of ASEAN in 2014 […]

Statement of the Burma Civil Society Workshop on ASEAN

We, 28 representatives from 17 community organizations from Thailand-Burma Border, acknowledging commitment of Women’s League Burma, SAPA Task Force on ASEAN and Burma, Burma Partnership, Mon Youth Progressive Organization, All Kachin Student Youth Union and Pa-Oh Youth Organization to take part in the preparation and implementation of 2014 ACSC/APF […]

Alternative Trade Groups on ASEAN Economic Integration in 2015: “A Hazy Future for the People”

Two years before the economic integration of the Southeast Asian economies, critics of neoliberal policies and the current global trade and investment regime, alternative trade campaigners and human rights activists raised concerns over the existing trade and investment policies in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and its member-governments and the effects of these policies to the peoples and communities in the region […]