[Reader-list] Indiginious People's Rally Agains British Petrolium during WSF-2006

Akash Ansar akashansari2000 at yahoo.com
Tue Mar 21 11:50:06 IST 2006 

To: All  Friends 
   
  Hope you are fine and busy in arrangement of Word Social Forum 
   
  Subject: Invitation for the participation in BRDS -20 Indigenous people’s Rally at WSF -2006 
   
  Dear Sir or Madam:
   
  Badin Rural Development Society (BRDS) is a non- profit, rights based civil society organization of indigenous people at District Badin Sindh, Pakistan. BRDS   leadership is professionally sound, committed and well aware about the local and international context of people rights and movements . During its ten year age BRDS mobilized and organized thousand of marginalized groups of the society and raised voice for their social and economical rights.
   
  As you are aware that, world social  forum is place for all the segments of civil society to be gather , share and raise voice for deprived  people of the world . This place also gives us an opportunity to disclose the regime of multinational corporations in the world and how these people have captures the economy and dignity of nations. 
   
  In the same context Badin Rural Development Society (BRDS) and Action Aid Pakistan is organizing a protest Rally against British Petroleum for the rights of indigenous People with following schedule. 
  In this regard, your organization is cordially invited to participate in the rally during WSF-2006.
   
  Schedule: 
   
  Title: Indigenous people’s rally against British Petroleum BP
  Time: 2:00 P.M 
  Date: 26th March 2006
  Venue: From Mazar-e-Quid to Sports Complex Karachi, Sindh Pakistan
   
   
  Thanks and regards,
   
  Dr. Akash Ansari 
  President 
  Badin Rural Development Society (BRDS),
  Opposite to Alhuda Public school, Kadhan Road Badin.
  Ph# 0297-862046

  Title: Indigenous people’s rally Against British Petroleum BP
  Time: 2:00 P.M 
  Date: 26th March 2006
  Venue: From Mazar-e-Quid to Sports Complex 
   
  Back Ground: 
  District Badin is most southern District of the Pakistan having population of 1.4 million. District Badin is one of the coastal districts of Sindh and known as hazard-prone. Over the last five decades it has remained in the grip of an uninterrupted cycle of disasters in one form or another. Cyclones, heavy rainfalls, droughts and floods follow each other with short-lived intervals, thereby trapping communities in a complex web of vulnerabilities.
  By natural resources it is richest District of Pakistan and produces 32000 Barrel crude oil and million cubic feet gas per day.
  Presently District Badin Produces 62% of Oil and 44% natural Gas of the total production of the country. 
  An extractive Corporation emerged Badin in early 80s, now all the extraction operations and production are carried out by a Single Multinational Company British Petroleum BP since 2000. 
  But on the other hand the local indigenous people are excluded and deprived from any social and economical benefit from natural resources. Not only that, company is not paying attention on environmental damage caused severe health complication in the area. When ever local people asked them for local development they have been harassed by the company.
  In the 2000 it was declared the poorest District of the Country by World Bank. And Government of Pakistan. The poverty density rate is 90% of the masses. 
  Since last eight months Badin Rural Development Society (BRDS) an organization of indigenous people of Indus civilization and Action Aid Pakistan have organized communities to raise voice and inform international community about the social and moral responsibility of these Multinationals.  
   
   
   


gurminder singh <singhgurminder2000 at hotmail.com> wrote:          CONVENTION ON CHILDREN'S RIGHT TO FOOD 
  (7th – 9th APRIL, 2006, HYDERABAD )
   
  Dear friends, 
   
  We are writing to invite you to a Convention on Children's Right to Food, to be held in Hyderabad on 7-9 April 2006.  This is a follow-up to the second National Convention on the Right to Food and Work, held in Kolkata on 18-20 November 2005. 
   
  The main focus of this convention will be on ICDS, mid-day meals and other means of protecting children's right to food, including maternity entitlements. Special attention will be given to "universalisation with quality" as the core demand of a united campaign on ICDS.   This will be an action-oriented convention, built around plenary sessions, parallel workshops, cultural activities, and more. 
   
  Preparatory meetings for this convention have already been held at the Kolkata convention last November and in Delhi on 6 January 2006 and 23 February 2006.  Further preparatory activities are being planned, including field studies and regional workshops.   Please consider planning some preparatory activities in your own area, to facilitate the success of the convention.  Useful campaign material and research tools are available on the website of the right to food campaign. ( www.righttofoodindia.org) 
   
  A modest registration fee (Rs 100 per person for three days) will be charged from the participants.   This covers accommodation and food.  Further resources for the convention are being raised through donations from individual supporters and participating organisations. 
   
  Details about the venue will be circulated (and posted on the above website) soon. Meanwhile, please confirm your participation as well as that of your organization as soon as possible, at one of the two addresses given below.   We hope to see you in Hyderabad.
   
  With regards, 
   
          
   
  Dipa Sinha and Nandini Nayak
  [on behalf of the Programme Committee: Dipa Sinha (Children's Rights Protection Forum), Gurjeet (Bharat Gyan Vigyan Samiti), Geeta Mahajan (National Federation of Indian Women), Hemlata (Mobile Crèches), Nandini Nayak (Centre for Equity Studies), Sachin Jain (Vikas Samvad, MP), Samir Garg (Koriya district, Chattisgarh), Vandana Prasad (Jan Swasthya Abhiyaan)] 
   
  Contact addresses for confirmation and further details:
   
  (1) Secretariat – Right to Food Campaign (Correspondence Address):   
  257, D.D.A. flats (RPS), Mansarovar Park , Shahdara, Delhi – 110032
  (E-mail righttofood at gmail.com , Tel: 09350530150).
   
  (2) Dipa Sinha, 201, Narayan Apartments, West Marredpally , Secunderabad – 500026 (Email: dipasinha at gmail.com; Tel: 09866023233).


   
   
    CONVENTION ON CHILDREN’S RIGHT TO FOOD
  (Hyderabad, 7 –9 April 2006)
   
  DRAFT PROGRAMME
   
  DAY 1 (APRIL 7th)
   
   
  10.30 – 1.00              OPENING PLENARY: Introduction to the Convention and Keynote Presentations on Children’s Right to Food
   
  2.00 – 3.00                 PLENARY: Introduction of Key Issues Related to ICDS and Discussion
   
  3.00 – 6.00                 PARALLEL WORKSHOPS ON ICDS:
   
  1.      ICDS and Child Nutrition
  (With special focus on outreach to under three’s)
                          2. Pre-school Education at the Anganwadi 
                          3. Supreme Court Orders as a Tool for Action
                          4. Covering every child: How and when?
                               (Universalisation, Social Exclusion, Outreach)
                                      5. Rethinking ICDS
                                          (Design, Flexibility, Integration)
                          6. Community Participation in ICDS
                               (Role of PRIs, Accountability, Corruption, Transparency)
                          7. Maternity entitlements: Theory and Practice
                          8. The Work Environment in ICDS
                                (Workers’ rights, Building capacities, Administration)
                          9. Financial and Political Resources for ICDS
                          
   
  8.00 onwards: Cultural Programme

   
  DAY 2 (APRIL 8th)
   
  9.00 – 10.30              PLENARY: Reports from ‘Day 1’ Workshops and Introduction to ICDS Action workshops
   
  13.00 – 1.00            PARALLEL WORKSHOPS: ACTION FOR ICDS.
              
                                      1. Media and Advocacy
                                      2. Anganwadi Divas
                                      3. Research Tools
                                      4. Right to Information and ICDS
                                      5. Bal Adhikar Yatra
                                      6. Legal and Policy Action
   
  1.00 – 2.00                 PLENARY: Reports from Workshops and Introduction of Issues Related to Mid-Day Meals
   
  3.00 – 5.00                 PARALLEL WORKSHOPS ON MID-DAY MEALS
   
  5.00 – 6.00                 PLENARY: Reports from Workshops on Mid-Day Meals
   
   
  DAY 3 (APRIL 9th)
   
  9.00 – 12.00            PARALLEL WORKSHOPS: State-Wise Discussions on Future Action.
   
  12.30 – 2.30            CONCLUDING PLENARY: Summing Up and Future Action.





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