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3e Dag van Alternatieven
Programma
 Yash Tandon belangrijke gast en deelnemer.
Eén van de deelnemers aan de 3e Dag van Alternatieven zal Yash Tandon, directeur van het South Centre in Geneve, zijn.
Yash Tandon is one of many outspoken critics in the South of the western-led global development agenda. His main focus in recent years has been debt and trade-relations (WTO), as seen from a southern perspective. He was formerly director of the International South Group Network (ISGN) and he is editing the SEATINI-Bulletin of the Southern and Eastern Africa Trade Information and Negotiation Initiative (SEATINI).
Yash Tandon is a national of Uganda. Having acquired a degree in Economics at the London School of Economics, he taught Political Economy and International Relations at various Universities, including Makerere University in Kampala, the University of Dar es Salaam, Nairobi University, Columbia University in New York, and the LSE. He was involved in the democratic struggle against the regime of Idi Amin in Uganda, and for a short time was part of Government after the fall of Amin. A second military coup in Uganda found him in political exile, first in Kenya, then in Zimbabwe. Since 1982 he has been working with agricultural cooperatives, trade unions, peasant associations, and organisations of people with disability in Southern Africa. He has written extensively on issues related to south-north relations, human rights, peace and conflict resolution, the refugee situation, democracy and governance, and sustainable development.
He is a founder member of ISGN, and is currently its Director.
In zijn vele publicaties uit Yash Tandon zich zeer kritisch over de hedendaagse en neoliberale vorm van globalisering. Een interessant artikel van Tandon over The violence of globalisation
Meer infomatie over Yash, zijn publicaties etc. is te vinden door te
'Googelen' op zijn naam.
The South Centre
The South Centre formally came into being as an intergovernmental body of developing countries on 31 July 1995, when the Intergovernmental Agreement to establish the Centre came into force. Currently, 48 countries are members of the South Centre.
The Centre, however, works for the benefit of the South (i.e. developing countries) as a whole, making efforts to ensure that all developing countries and interested groups and persons have access to its publications and the results of its work. Broadly, the Centre works to assist in developing points of view of the South on major policy issues, and to generate ideas and action-oriented proposals for consideration by the collectivity of South governments, institutions of South-South co-operation, intergovernmental organizations of the South, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the community at large.
The South Centres central objective is to promote South solidarity, cohesion, cooperation and common action on global and Southern issues, as well as to promote better mutual understanding and cooperation between the South and the North.
The South Centre works on various clusters of issues, including those issues related to international trade and sustainable development.
The South Centres Trade and Development Programme (TADP) was developed to focus on these issues. It works in close collaboration with developing countries and utilizes both South-South cooperation mechanisms and collaboration with selected Northern organizations. Its efforts have led to a planned and systematic expansion of activities in an area of major interest to the South.
The TADP provides developing country delegations with demand-driven substantive analytical and technical research support and policy analysis on a case-by-case and issue-specific basis. Its objective is to build and support the negotiating capacity of developing countries in the WTO, and to build a developing country-centred analytical perspective in the context of WTO discussions in support of a developing country agenda therein. In addition, the TADP also prepares and provides pro-active and substantive informal policy-oriented analytical notes in line with the Centres mandate to serve as a policy think-tank for developing countries responsive to the needs of developing country missions in Geneva for research and analytical assistance.
Meer informatie over de rest van het programma volgt z.s.m.
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Nieuwe economische perspectieven, verder met zorg en democratie in de economie
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Op zaterdag 20 maart organiseren de Stichting voor Zorgeconomie en de Stichting OostalArm een workshop:
Nieuwe economische perspectieven, verder met zorg en democratie in de economie.
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Dag van Alternatieven 2005
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Op zaterdag 1 oktober vond voor de derde keer een dag plaats die geheel in het teken stond van het formuleren van alternatieven voor het heersende neoliberale economische systeem.
Zie 3e Dag van Alternatieven 2005
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