Another South Asia is Possible! BNNRC will cover the South Asia Social Forum 2011 Bangladesh

Another South Asia is Possible!

BNNRC will cover the South Asia Social Forum 2011 Bangladesh 

 

 

 

The WSF General Council formally declared organizing of South Asia Social Forum in November 18-22, 2011 in Dhaka.  Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication will cover the South Asia Social Forum 2011

South Asia Social Forum Bangladesh is a process of World Social Forum. The event was initially planned by the WSF International Expansion Committee (IEC) in its Morocco meeting to focus on Democracy. The process of organizing the event in Bangladesh is carried out by the collective initiative of individuals and organizations. The initiators of the process have a common ground of opposing the neoclassical constructions of inequality, discrimination, violence and violations embodied in capitalism.

The main theme for the South Asia Social Forum 2011 Bangladesh was set "Democracy for Social Transformation in South Asia: Participation, Equity, Justice and Peace". This theme is to highlight and oppose the neo-liberal, hegemonic and authoritarian "poverty reduction" development policy and paradigm. The forum is intended to focus on this structural concern with a clear transformational agenda. However, there are various urgent and immediate economic, political and cultural concerns of the people, especially poor, women and marginalized communities, would be addressed in the forum. There are country specific issues and there are also regional and cross-country issues. All the issues are clustered in sub-themes.

 Sub-Themes (key Issues) to be addressed in Forum 2011

• Participatory Democracy and People's Movements:

Democracy as "competition for power", local autonomy/self-governance, social movements, peoples organization, peoples planning, peoples control over natural resources, peoples movement against Neo-Liberalism.

• Responsive Governance:

Decentralization / local government, right to information, extrajudicial killing, rule of law, accountability, green governance, corruption, de-militarization

• Gender and Equity :

Patriarchy, violence against women, violence against children, hegemonic masculinity, gender based violence, trans-gender.

• Human Rights and Dignity:

Fundamental human rights, children's rights, youth rights, women rights, labor rights, farmers' rights, migrants rights, rights of differently able people, Dalit rights, minority rights, rights of Indigenous peoples, right to shelter/housing.

• Fundamentalism, Conflict and Societal Peace:

Communal, ethnic, political party rivalry and conflict resolution/transformation, societal peace, multiculturalism, racism, secularism

• Food Sovereignty & Livelihood Security:

Land and agrarian reform, corporate agriculture, food rights, hunger, land rights, seed rights, natural resource: (forest, water & mineral), solidarity economy.

• Public Services, Privatization and Entitlement:

Education, health (Public Heath Care, HIV/AIDS.), water, energy, transport, knowledge and technology and people's entitlement

• Globalization, justice and development:

People's globalization vs. IFIs, trade justice, WTO, FTA, RTA corporate accountability, aid accountability, development finance. climate justice, environmental/ecological justice.

• Regional and Trans-boundary Concerns:

Regional cooperation, peace, solidarity, border security, religious extremism, communalism, caste, class and ethnicity, crime against humanity and war crimes, migration, trafficking, harnessing water resources for all the basin people through equitable sharing, disarmament and de-nuclearization.

• Media and Cultural Hegemony:

Corporate control of media, consumerism, sexism, intolerance, fundamentalism, alternative and peoples media

• Contemporary movements and thoughts:

 The above program sub-themes are divided into fiver clusters (two sub-themes in each cluster) for effective arrangement of the events:

Cluster – 1

Participatory Democracy and Peoples Movement Responsive Governance,  Cluster – 2 Gender and Sexuality Human Rights and Dignity  Cluster – 3 Food Sovereignty and Livelihood Security Public Service, Privatization and Entitlement Cluster – 4 Globalization, Justice and Development Regional and Trans-boundary Concerns Cluster – 5 Fundamentalism, Conflict and Societal Peace Media and Cultural Hegemony. For more info:  http://www.wsfsouthasiabd.org/

 

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AHM. Bazlur Rahman-S21BR
[MSS in Government & Politics, Legislative Development Fellow- USA]
 
Chief Executive Officer
Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication
[NGO in Special Consultative Status with the UN Economic and Social Council]
 
Lifetime Member : Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC)
Member              : American Radio Relay League (ARRL)
Member               : Bangladesh Amateur Radio League (BRAL)
Member               : World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC)
Member               : Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) 
Member  : Asia South Pacific Association for Basic and Adult Education 
 
House  : 13/1, Road: 2, Shaymoli, Dhaka-1207 Bangladesh
Phone  : 88-02-9130750, +88-02-9138501, Cell: +88 01711881647 
Fax  : 88-02-9138501-105
E-mail  : ceo@bnnrc.net, bnnrcbd@gmail.com 
Web  : www.bnnrc.net

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