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FOCUS ON INDIA: Issue: MARCH 2006. Vol. III. No. 03

Sunday, 26 March 2006 23:15 administrator
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The month of March started with the visit of royalty in the form of George Bush who toured South Asia in the first week. Protests marred the warm welcome accorded by a fawning Indian Prime Minster and his cohorts. People protested not only in the cities he chose to visit but even where he didn't go. The protests in Delhi and Mumbai were significant for the broad alliance of the left, Muslim organizations, NGOs and others, which came together for massive protests, especially in Mumbai.

March 8th was International Women's Day there were marches and other programs in different parts of the country. Interestingly many mainstream media channels and even corporate marketing campaigns chose to take note of the occasion making use of it for the purposes of pushing cosmetics, beauty pageants, and such.

On March 7th the Supreme Court passed an order in the Mumbai's mill lands case awarding big builder contractors and mill owners a bonanza in terms of real estate and lack of accountability to planning and the needs of the city. Organisations in Mumbai came together in a show of unity to fight the order and demand legislation from the state government to hand over part of the land to the city for public spaces, low cost housing and infrastructure.

We also have Resolution of the delegates to the conference on 'Peace and Justice in South Asia' that was held in Mumbai in the last week of February.

FOCUS ON INDIA (FOI) Issue: FEBRUARY 2006. Vol. III. No. 02.

Thursday, 23 February 2006 22:17 administrator
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We apologize for the delay in bringing you the February issue of Focus on India.

Massive protests are expected across India in the first week of March 06 during the visit of US President George Bush. As a run-up to the mobilisation several organisations under the banner of ‘Peace Mumbai’ will organise a 3-day conference with a proactive and positive agenda for peace and justice in South Asia. The US President is expected to visit New Delhi and Hyderabad. Hyderabad is also the venue for Asian Development Banks Annual Governors meeting in May 2006. Groups from across Asia have come together to hold parallel events during the AGM. This will include a ‘Peoples forum on the ADB’ where academics, activists, researchers and social movements will assess the impacts of ADB projects across Asia. A Parliamentary Forum on the ADB will bring together elected representatives to speak about the impacts on democratic institutions. The call to action from the Peoples Forum against the ADB is pasted below. 

DATELINE WTO: FOCUS ON INDIA (FOI) # Issue 4

Thursday, 15 December 2005 00:00 Sonila Swaminathan
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A weekly update issued by Focus on the Global South India from 21st November 2005 till the end of the Sixth WTO Ministerial in Hong Kong from Dec. 13th to 18th, 2005

Please go to www.focusweb.org for details on our events in Hong Kong

 
CONTENTS:
  1. Petition to Kamal Nath on Annex C on GATS
  2. Pitfalls of sectoral negotiations
  3. "WTO Take Your Hands Off Our Food!”
  4. Asia Pacific Women’s Village in Hong Kong
  5. The G20’s HK Challenges- report from HK

FOCUS ON INDIA (FOI), Issue: JUNE 2005. Vol.II. No. 06.

Wednesday, 08 June 2005 06:09 administrator
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The latter half of 2005 appears to be a challenging one. The transition period at 2 of the most powerful global institutions has predictably been o­ne of manipulation and power play. <p.The World Bank saw the exit of James Wolfensohn and the entry of Paul Wolfowitz - a move likely to result in little change in the Bank's focus. The statement o­n the end of the Wolfensohn era underlines the fact that despite some savvy PR exercises the Bank demonstrated an unshakeable commitment to its core ideology of pushing privatisation, liberalisation and de-regulation o­n developing countries. The open letter serves a warning to Paul Wolfowitz that his tenure will be closely watched by hundreds of groups across the world.

FOCUS ON INDIA (FOI), Issue: APRIL 2005. Vol.II. No. 04.

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Issue: APRIL 2005. Vol.II. No. 04.

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March was an eventful month. The Government of India hosted a ministerial meeting of the G 20 countries in New Delhi o­n 18-19th. Representatives of Indian movements and peoples organisations met in New Delhi o­n the 15th and passed a resolution regarding the WTO' Agreement o­n Agriculture and allied issues. The meeting demanded the G 20 countries reject the WTO AOA framework for agriculture, stand for the peasants of the south and confront the agribusiness interests of the north. A day before the Ministerial, as Trade Ambassadors gathered in the posh Maurya Sheraton, over 30000 farmers marched in the streets of Delhi and gave a clear message to Indian governmentto pursue a more farmer friendly agriculture policy and reject the WTO agreements. The rally was organised under the aegis of the Indian Coordination Committee of Farmers Movement, which includes groups such as the Bharatiya Kisan Union and Karnataka Rajya Raita Sangha.  

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