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	Asian Forum on Corporate Social Responsibility
		The sixth annual Asian Forum on Corporate Social Responsibility (AFCSR) will be held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam tentatively set on September 27 and 28, 2007.
		These are facilitated sessions where delegates, speakers, exhibitors and sponsors are polled prior to the Forum topics they would like to meet and discuss.
		Attend the presentations of the prestigious Asian CSR Awards.
	www.asianforumcsr.com /about.htm (344 words)

	Asian Social Forum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Asian Social Forum was a left-wing conference held by members of the alter-globalization movement (also known as the Global Justice Movement).
		It aims to allow social movements, trade unions, NGOs, refugees, peace and anti-imperialist groups, anti-racist movements, environmental movements, networks of the excluded and community campaigns mainly from the Asian region to come together and discuss themes linked to major Asian and global political issues.
		From 2006, the World Social Forum is "polycentric," occurring in various parts of the world,[1] continuing the same concept but without the title "Asian Social Forum." The Karachi Social Forum was held between 24-29 March 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Asian_Social_Forum (212 words)

	National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR)
		The process of ASF 2003, in the WSF spirit, will be open, inclusive and flexible, to incorporate all the social movements and organisations, networks, coalitions, alliances and campaigns opposed to capitalist-led globalisation working all over Asia, who are in consonance with the World Social Forum (WSF) Charter of Principles.
		ASF will be organised as a platform for participatory formulation of alternatives to the dehumanising world order resulting from the policies and practices of neo-liberal globalisation.
		Asian Social Forum offers a unique opportunity to mainstream Dalit concerns into the growing world-wide resistance to neo-liberal globalisation processes, through creative interventions in order to clearly articulate the concerns that the community is facing today.
	www.dalits.org /asfbackground.htm (1164 words)

	ONSITE REPORTS: Asian Social Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Asia Social Forum (ASF) concluded as a major success on 7 January 2003, not only with the strong participation of all the countries from Asia but also in solidarity building and forming new leaderships in the social movements that have begun the activity to resist militarism, globalisation and imperialism.
		The Asian Social Forum, the first of its kind to be held in Asia from 2-7 January 2003, provided an open platform for debate and interaction among organisations and movements engaged in creating a democratic, socially just and sustainable world.
		Prior to the WSF III, two social forums were held in 2002: A thematic SF on the Argentina Crisis was held on 22-25 August in Buenos Aires, Europe Social Forum on 7-10 November in Florence, Italy.
	www.isiswomen.org /onsite/socialforum/asf1.htm (559 words)

	WSF Process in India \| World Social Forum
		The WSF process is being deepened at the grassroots by initiating social forums in states, districts and towns of India.
		The Asian Social Forum in Hyderabad, organised betrween January 2nd - 7th, 2003 was the culmination of the first phase of WSF activities in India.
		The WSF-India process was designed to be a broadbasesd, inclusive process, uniting the social movements, mass organisations, and non-governmental organisations from diverse sectors of society building upon and broadening the alliances forged during the Asian Social Forum in Hyderabad in January 2003.
	www.wsfindia.org /?q=node/12 (1020 words)

	Asian Social Forum 2003 Report :: Publications :: ACMICA
		The Asian Social Forum was held in Hyderabad India from the 2nd of January to the 7th.
		Having read the background to the process of the world social forum I was confident that I would be witnessing a defining milestone in the struggle against the neo-liberal hegemonic forces which govern our world.
		I left the ASF with the belief that it is only a matter of time until the tables turn and that the Catholic community has much to offer the revolutionary processes needed in order to transform our world.
	www.acmica.org /pub_asf2003.html (748 words)

	The Hindu : Asian Social Forum to focus on anti-globalisation movement
		Over 10,000 delegates from more than 300 organisations representing social movements, trade unions, Dalit, women and youth organisations, cultural activists, research institutions and NGOs from all parts of Asia are gathering in Hyderabad for the Asian Social Forum from January 2 to 7, 2003.
		Informing the press about this event, Justice B.P. Jeevan Reddy, chairman of the host committee, said that the Asian Social Forum is part of the World Social Forum (WSF) movement, which has emerged as the rallying point for all those opposed to globalisation.
		He added that WSF, of which the Asian Social Forum was a part, was not simply about building resistance to economic globalisation but also about proposing alternatives for a better, more emancipated and egalitarian world.
	www.hindu.com /2002/12/27/stories/2002122702320500.htm (247 words)

	Welcome to World Social Forum -2004 India
		The World Social Forum (WSF) was created to provide an open platform to discuss strategies of resistance to the model for globalisation formulated at the annual World Economic Forum at Davos by large multinational corporations, national governments, IMF, the World Bank and the WTO, which are the foot soldiers of these corporations.
		The annual forums in 2002 and 2003 saw the movement grow rapidly, as the WSF came to symbolise the strength of the anti-globalisation movement and became a rallying point for worldwide protest against the American invasion of Iraq.
		The Asian Social Forum in Hyderabad in January 2003 was a demonstration of India's commitment to the WSF process, prompting suggestions that the next be held in the subcontinent.
	www.wsfindia.net /whoweare.php (333 words)

	Some Hard Questions About World Social Forum By Jai Sen
		I ask these questions in the assumption of agreement that the World Social Forum, with all its limitations, is still a significant world institution, in terms of world politics and even more so in terms of civil politics, and that it is something that we need to understand and critically engage with as it evolves.
		From this year (2006), the WSF is attempting a significant new experiment, a so-called polycentric¹ World Social Forum (in Bamako, Mali; in Caracas, Venezuela; and in Karachi, Pakistan) is about to take off, in two weeks, though with one of the three locations (the Karachi one) postponed till March.
		But given this significance, and behind this the significance of the World Social Forum as an emerging world institution and as an institution of civil politics, it is important, and perhaps of no small interest, that there is hardly any debate about the polycentric Forum, either as individual meetings or as a collective.
	www.countercurrents.org /wsf-sen110106.htm (1541 words)

	The Asian Social Forum: a new public space Kamal Mitra Chenoy - openDemocracy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Asian Social Forum (ASF) is part of the global justice movement that came together in the World Social Forum (WSF), famous for its regular meetings in Porto Alegre in Brazil in the last few years.
		The presence both of social activists and academics and former bureaucrats such as S.P. Shukla, who had represented the Indian government during the WTO negotiations, is one indication of its innovative nature.
		Asian participants felt that the participation and discussion tended to be India-centric.
	www.opendemocracy.net /themes/article.jsp?articleId=1005&id=3 (1113 words)

	The India Social Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The proposed India Social Forum (ISF), to be organised at Delhi in November 2006, will be the third event to be organised by WSF-India after the Asian Social Forum in Hyderabad in January 2003 and the World Social Forum in Mumbai in January 2004.
		The World Social Forum process in India has, in the last 4 years, been successful in bringing together different political and social streams on a common platform to oppose, and resist the onslaught of Imperialist Globalisation.
		The aim of this ISF is to showcase the richly textured vision produced by the wide spectrum of social and political movements in India, Asia, and Africa today, with special emphasis on the role of children, youth and women in taking forward the aspirations.
	www.himalmag.com /ads/india_social_forum.htm (340 words)

	Choike - World Social Forum (WSF) 2003
		This Forum was characterized by collective enthusiasm, hard work, and the diversity and sheer numbers of those present, together with a capacity for formulating proposals and articulating alliances around the most varied of issues.
		The Asian Social Forum in Hyderabad in January 2003 was a demonstration of India's commitment to the WSF process.
		The committee of Brazilian organizations that conceived of, and organized, the first World Social Forum, after evaluating the results of that Forum and the expectations it raised, consider it necessary and legitimate to draw up a Charter of Principles to serve as guidelines for the continued pursuit of that initiative.
	www.choike.org /nuevo_eng/informes/738.html (1469 words)

	Asian Social Forum (ASF),January 2nd to 7th, 2003 at Hyderabad, India
		The Asian Social Forum (ASF), being organised by WSF India, will be held in the city of Hyderabad, in the Southern Indian State of Andhra Pradesh between January 2nd to 7th, 2003.
		It is an open forum: the only criteria is that the participants be opposed to imperialist globalisation as well as religious sectarian violence, and have a commitment to democratic values, plurality and peace.
		We hope that the ASF will provide an inspiring space where movements/ organizations/ groups/individuals / will come in from all over India and Asia to carry the message of the World Social Forum.
	www.focusweb.org /publications/press-statements/ASF-invitation.htm (334 words)

	pha-exchange : PHA-Exchange> URGENT : Asian Social Forum pledges to resist globalisation and imperialism (Press ...
		Marking the beginning of the Asian Social Forum at the historic South Indian city of Hyderabad, the gathering was addressed by eminent economists, political fighters and thinkers.
		ASF draws inspiration from the World Social Forum, an annual event held at Porto Alegre, Brazil, that has challenged the Brettonwoods institutions -- World Bank and the International Monitory Fund.
		The ASF is expected to synergise and strengthen the ongoing struggle against globalisation and imperialism.
	lists.kabissa.org /lists/archives/public/pha-exchange/msg00562.html (1019 words)

	ZNet \| South Asia \| Asia Social Forum
		The ASF is part of the great global justice movement that began at Seattle in 1999, and took an organised expression through the World Social Forum's meetings in Porto Alegre, Brazil, with the slogan, "Another world is possible!"
		But the ASF's own roots lie in the Asian soil, in the numerous movements which have grown over the past quarter-century or more in the continent - for survival with dignity, for peace, gender equality, decentralisation, for direct democracy, Dalit rights, for ecologically sound development and social liberation.
		Another is that the ASF workshops were so physically dispersed (which Indian city can accommodate 15,000 people in multiple conference centres located close to one another?) as to lack connectedness and a centre of gravity.
	www.zmag.org /content/SouthAsia/bidwai_asf.cfm (812 words)

	Forum News Volume 16 No.1 April 2003
		Altogether, ASF was attended by 15,000 participants representing 140 social movements, organisations, networks, coalitions, alliances and campaigns that are committed to fight against neoliberal globalisation and ethnic/caste/religion/gender based discrimination.
		This gathering was a part of the World Social Forum and became a significant contribution to the global process of the participatory formulating the alternatives to the neo-liberalism.
		For APWLD, ASF was a forum to express, deliberate and further develop its position on women’s human rights, violence against women and globalisation.
	www.apwld.org /vol161-02.htm (1336 words)

	India, not Brazil, to Host Next Year's World Social Forum
		The process of selecting the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, which hosted the regional Asian Social Forum Jan 2-7, as the site of the fourth WSF involved lengthy discussions because the organisers in India had asked for one month to assess whether they were in a position to take on the enormous responsibility.
		For instance, Argentina held a Thematic Social Forum in August, the European Social Forum took place in Florence, Italy in November, the Asian Social Forum was held in early January, and the Pan-Amazon Social Forum took place in Belém, in northern Brazil, on Jan 16-19.
		Culture should be viewed as ''a basic social necessity'' based on the recognition of diversity, the right to identity by all ethnic and social groups, and the right to recreation, education and the use of public spaces, said Margarete Moraes, culture secretary of the city of Porto Alegre.
	www.globalissues.net /Article/340 (1353 words)

	Forum News Volume 16 No.1 April 2003
		I was very interested to attend this forum to learn about resistance and fight for alternatives by agricultural workers, sweat-shope workers, from the unorganized sector; about land struggles, struggles for freedom and equality.
		My main objective at the ASF was to raise awareness on the issue of sexual violence committed by the Burmese military in the Shan State.
		That was why we asked Asian social movements participating in the ASF to raise awareness in their countries on the dangers of any kind of assistance or cooperation provided to military junta in Burma.
	www.apwld.org /vol161-04.htm (2613 words)

	World Social Forum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The World Social Forum (WSF) is an annual meeting held by members of the anti-globalisation movement to coordinate world campaigns, share and refine organizing strategies, and inform each other about movements from around the world and their issues.
		The sixth World Social Forum was "polycentric" held in January 2006 in Caracas (Venezuela) and Bamako (Mali), and in March 2006, in Karachi (Pakistan).
		The Forum in Pakistan was delayed to March because of the Kashmir earthquake that had recently occurred in the area.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/World_Social_Forum (1068 words)

	AISGEF - Miscellaneous - Asian Social Forum Globalization and Labour Rights
		Incorporating social concerns and core labour standards and labour rights into the policies and operations of the IFIs has been the central theme of many a international symposia, and trade unions all over the world.
		The World Bank and MNCs in its operation of gobalization agenda, are repeatedly emphasizing on flexibility of labour in the interest of the international finance capital to multiply their profits by over-intensive exploitation of the labour.
		Whatever the social security benefits and the rights to enjoy a dignified living earned by the International Working Class, is in the process of being vanished in the wake of globalization and its offensive.
	www.tradeunionindia.org /miscellaneous/forum.htm (2052 words)

	The Hindu Business Line : Asian Social Forum for creating `another world'
		ASF, a summit of social activists, is also unanimous against globalisation and imperialism.
		ASF draws inspiration from the World Social Forum, an annual event held at Porto Alegre in Brazil that has challenged the Brettonwoods institutions — the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
		There has been an overwhelming response to the six-day meeting of ASF that has become a forum for social struggles.
	www.blonnet.com /2003/01/05/stories/2003010501240500.htm (355 words)

	newsdesk.org \| : World Social Forum bound for India in 2004
		The decision was made in a closed session, and the debate was often heated and revealed both diversity and divisions within the leftist community.
		Some members of the Brazilian committee were opposed to the change in location, stating that the World Social Forum has deep roots in Porto Alegre, where it was first held in 2001.
		Meenan Menon of the Asian Social Forum said that they did not mean to "steal" anything from Brazil.
	www.artsandmedia.net /cgi-bin/dc/newsdesk/2003/01/23_social_forum_india (397 words)

	Aspects of India's Economy No. 35: The Economics and Politics of the World Social Forum
		In fact "Project World Social Forum 2004" estimates total expenditure for the event at $29.7 million (about Rs 135 crore), the bulk of which, $26.2 million, is the cost of the delegates' participation (transportation, accommodation and food).
		In a number of forums, CPI(M) members and NGOs now cooperate and share costs — for example, at the People's Health Conference held in Kolkata in 2002, the Asian Social Forum held in Hyderabad in January 2003, or the World Social Forum to be held in Mumbai in January 2004.
		However, in the final analysis, the test of the World Social Forum is not merely how it is funded or the character of some of the leading/participating organisations or individuals, nor even its exclusion of various forces.
	www.rupe-india.org /35/wsfmumbai.html (4799 words)

	The 2004 World Social Forum
		The latter is a community-based popular education organization bringing scholar, student, labor, and low-income activists together on the basis of equality to build a bottom-up movement in the United States as part of today’s global movement for justice and equality.
		They saw that the U.S. social and economic justice movement was not represented by those most adversely affected by the ravages of globalization and neoliberal policies, but instead by big NGOs, foundations, think tanks, and academics, mostly white and middle class.
		MR created a safe space for a variety of socialist, communist, women’s and social movement organizations who wanted to clearly state that their vision for “another world” is socialism, that capitalism cannot be reformed, and that this space is open to all who support that world.
	www.asanet.org /footnotes/mar04/indexthree.html (1176 words)

	Nawal El Saadawi and Sherif Hetata's site
		This meeting is not seen as an alternative to the Arab Social Forum initiated in Barcelona, as it rather is part of it.
		The aims and activities of these Social Forums are in harmony with the general aims and activities of the World Social Forum in the struggle against the economic, military, social and mediatic offensive launched by the multinational corporations and by imperialist forces seeking too impose their world hegemony.
		The social movements in the Arab region therefore have a special responsibility in ensuring that this machine ceases to function at the expense of the peoples of the world and in facing the problems which undermine the effectiveness of the social movements and the establishment of an effective Social Forum in the Arab region.
	www.nawalsaadawi.net /articles/2006/iii_international_assembly.htm (4314 words)

	Asian Social Forum 2003 - Part 2
		At the Forum, I was struck by the intense, imaginative, and often effective projects being undertaken by organizations to deal with problems that used to solve themselves in India.
		The same week that the Asian Social Forum was meeting on the dusty grounds of Nizam College near Hyderbad’s old downtown, the Confederation of Indian Industry’s Partnership Summit convened in a luxury hotel across town in Banjara Hills.
		It is one phase in the evolution of the social conflict.
	members.cox.net /t.s/asfpart2.html (4046 words)

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