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About Peoples Summit
The “Peoples Summit”, defined as a peoples initiative has been held since 2000 in parallel with the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC). The Summit aims to promote people to people dialogues, exchanges and linkages in South Asia to address regional issues.
This joint civil society initiative provides a platform to act on “peoples agenda” and helps the civil society to engage with national governments and regional institutions. The six summits held since its commencement in Colombo, Kathmandu, Islamabad (twice), Dhaka and Delhi in the years 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2007 respectively played four important functions:
- Enhancing the need for a follow-up to create a common understanding on the issues of people’s agendas among various civil society actors of South Asia;
- Developing alternative linkages and communication among civil society organizations, marginalized sections within South Asia;
- Engaging with like-minded civil society organizations on the issues of peoples agenda to lobby with SAARC Head of states and other regional forums; and
- Promoting dialogue within each country involving civil society actors working with marginalized sections of the society for culminating into a regional dialogue.
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Bhutan wants to hold next (16th) SAARC Summit in April 2009
Submitted by Hempal on Wed, 06/10/2009 - 05:46.Source: http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world-news/bhutan-wants-to-host-saar...
Dhaka, May 21 (IANS) Bhutan wants to host the 16th South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) summit next April 28-29 in Thimphu as the Maldives, which was to host it, has expressed its inability to arrange the gathering due to the current economic recession.
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SAARC members pledge to empower people, civil society
Submitted by deepti on Thu, 03/20/2008 - 09:09.By Iftikhar Gilani
NEW DELHI: South Asian nations pledged here on Thursday to empower their people and civil society through transparency, accountability, and the right to information, which they hoped would lead to better governance.
At the second meeting of the Social Development Ministers of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), these nations, however, resisted India’s idea to copy its “landmark” Right to Information Act (RTI) for implementation in the region.
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244 Women, 1,947 Men Vying for 240 Seats
Submitted by deepti on Wed, 02/27/2008 - 19:04.Only 11 per cent of the total 2,191 candidates who filed their nomination on Monday in 240 constituencies under the first-past-the-post election to constituent assembly were females.
Spokesman for the Election Commission Laxman Bhattarai said the contenders include 1,947 men (1,443 from parties and 464 independent) and a mere 244 female (215 from the political parties and 29 independent). The figure includes the nominations filed by fax, but the EC has not compiled a separate data for the same.
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