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Act now for South
Asian mindset; Demand a role from our SAARC leaders.
Dhaka 17th March 2007. Today in Dhaka
Reporters Unity SUPRO has launched a campaign media pack to the
journalist. The pack has eight papers with gist analytical information
and pro poor demand from the civil society for the SAARC leader. The
pack has released both in English and Bengali, these are all one page
each for eight issues.
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SUPRO launch media
pack for the campaign on South Asian People’s Solidarity
Titles of those papers are (i) South Asia: Way
Beyond 2015… Reshaping MDG to SDG, (ii) Climate Change: South Asian
Leaders Should Act Now, (iii) GMO free South Asia: People’s demand for
securing food sovereignty, (iv) Foreign Direct Investment: Foreign
Remittance is Not for Profit Remittance, (v) SAFTA fails if not
supporting to LDC’s capability, (vi) Free movement of unskilled and semi
skilled workers: SAARC should identify a common position, (vii)
Militarization in South Asia: Whose interest? Who pay for it and (viii)
Let the civil society to participate and speak at SAARC summit. You can
down load those from
www.supro.org and
www.saarccivilsociety.org. Media coverage of the press conference as
follows;
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The Daily Star
Include civil
society groups in SAARC summit
As civil
society groups of Saarc countries represent the aspirations and opinions
of their peoples, their voices should be heard in the Saarc summit,
opined a group of researchers at a press conference in the city
yesterday. |
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New Age
South Asia urged to cut military budget
Researchers at a seminar on
Saturday underscored the need for reduction in military budget in South
Asia.
Ahead
of the upcoming 14th SAARC Summit, a panel of researchers also said the
total military budget was $ 31756.7 million. With this money, poverty of
150 million poor people in
South Asia could be
eliminated and all children could be sent to school by 2015, they noted.
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There will be more press conference and civil
society events in different regions of the country up to April, please
follow those news in
www.supro.org and
http://www.saarccivilsociety.org/
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