The Asian Development Bank, or ADB, has
provide a loan, technical support or the like to development projects for the
purpose of “Asia Without Poverty” since its inception. However, on the other
hand, not a few residents’ groups or organizations, NGOs or social movements
have been denouncing problems like displacement or eviction, environmental
destruction, more debt, etc. triggered by those development project, demanding
that the ADB or Japanese government should listen well to affected local
residents or communities.
The 50th ADB Annual General
Meeting will start in Yokohama on May 4. In addition, the meeting of the RCEP
which is drawing more attention from the Japanese society because the TPP talks
are running on the rocks, is planned in Manila early in May following that in
Kobe Japan in March.
Considering those circumstance, we will
check at this symposium what the past development-supports, activities of
financial institutions, the whole concept of trade agreements have brought on
people’s lives, human beings, and environment in Asia. Besides, we or activists
from the different parts of Asia including Japan will consider together in
terms of justice how we could design the future of Asia and relationship among
people and what support the ADB or Japanese government should be desired or
requested in Asia. The plenary session will be on May 2, and separate meetings
on May 3, where the issues of water, food, climate change, debts, labor, etc.
will be discussed.
On May 4 when the ADB AGM will kick off, we
will stage a demonstration near the venue.
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May
2 (Tues) 18:30-21:00: Plenary Session
[Place]
Bunkyo Civic 4th floor Hall
1 min’s walk from Korakuen Station on the
Marunouchi-line, Nanpoku-line, 1 min’s walk form Kasuga on Mita-line or
Oedo-line, or 9 min’s walk from Suidobashi on the JR Sobu-line.
[Detail]
Speakers:
- Afsar Jafri, Focus on the Global South, India
- Hemantha Withanage, FOE Sri Lanka
- Kazuoki Ono, People’s movement opposing the TPP, Japan, talks on
“Collapsing villages and people – Considering Japanese rural villages affected
by globalization”
- Malou Tabios, Asian Peoples Movement on Debt and Development,
Philippines
<Day
2nd>
May
3 (Wed) 15:400
– 21:00, Separate meetings
[Place]
Bunkyo Civic 3rd floor, Meeting rooms A and B
Room
A: 15:00-17:30
Climate
change and coal powered energy
Speakers:
Hemantha Withanage and others
Room
A: 18:00-20:30
Trade
Speakers: Afsar Jafri and others
Room
B: 15:00-17:30
Development Finance and Debt
Speakers: Malou Tabios and someone from PSI-APRO
Room
B: 18:00-20:30
Food
sovereignty
Speakers:
Arze Glipo and others
*For
details, see the following blog:
http://int.attac.jp/2017_01_01_archive.html
Organized
by the Planning Committee of Symposium on Development, Environment, Human
Rights and Peace in Asia joined and collaborated by ATTAC Japan, Focus on the
Global South, Asia-Pacific Network for Food
Sovereignty (APNFS), Japan Center for a Sustainable Environment and Society (JACSES),
FOE Japan, PSI-APRO (Public Services International Asia-Pacific Regional
Office), People’s movement opposing the TPP, Asian Peoples Movement on Debt
and Development (APMDD), People’s Plan Study Group (PPSG)
Contact:
peopleadb50@gmail.com
Phone: Yoko Akimoto, 81-90-9824-9081
<Day 3rd>
May 4 (Turs)
14:30, Meet a square in front of JR
Sakuragicho station
15:30, March for Development, Environment,
Human Rights and Peace in Asia starts.
March from the square in front of JR
Sakuragicho station toward Minato-Mirai, and turn to the left through
Bashamichi to Yamashita Park.
Distance: Some 2 kms. Takes one hour from
the JR Sakuragicho to Yamashita Park.
アジア開発銀行（ＡＤＢ）は「貧困のないアジア」を目指すとして、主に「開発途上国」における開発プロジェクトへの融資や技術支援等を行ってきました。しかし、「支援を受ける側」の諸国の多くの住民団体やＮＧＯ、社会運動団体は、開発プロジェクトがもたらす住民立ち退き、環境破壊、債務の拡大などの問題を告発し、もっと現地の声を聞くよう訴え続けてきました。