The East Asia-U.S.-Puerto Rico Women's Network Against Militarism was formed in 1997 when forty women activists, teachers, and students from South Korea, Okinawa, mainland Japan, the Philippines, and the United States gathered in Okinawa. Our purpose was to share information about the negative effects of the U.S. military in each of our countries, especia...
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Background The level of philanthropyin a country is considered an important standard of measuring the level of its culture. The more advanced a country is, the more developed its philanthropic culture. Since the act of giving is not derived from a sense of duty (as in the case of taxes, for example), it is only possible through a developed civic co...
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Youngsters and Their Rights: PSPD’s Youth Club ‘WA’ is Getting into the “Campaign for Part-Timers’ Rights”. Part-time youth workers are speaking up for their rights. Young people who are doing Arbeit (part-time job, popularly called Alba) are speaking out against discrimination and unfair treatment. Go Alba! The youth...
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Yeara Park International Solidarity, PSPD People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy (PSPD), Asian Network for Free Elections (ANFREL) and Forum-Asia opened September 2002 with "International Workshop on Civil Society Building Democracy and Good Governance through Election in Asia", sponsored by Friedrich Ebert Stiftung and The Korean...
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ASEM4 PEOPLE focuses on globalisation, security concerns and human rights Sven Hansen "Real globalisation starts with basic needs." This phrase from the opening speech of well known Norwegian peace researcher Johan Galtung marked the course of the ASEM 4 PEOPLE forum. "You can be in favour of free trade if it supports basic needs. If not, it...
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ASEM4 People Declaration HUMAN RIGHTS, PEOPLE'S SECURITY, AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT- UNDER ATTACK: NO TO MILITARISATION AND UNFAIR TRADE! Over 600 women and men representing more than 30 countries across Asia and Europe met at the ASEM4 People Forum between the 19-22 September 2002 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The meeting held wide- ranging dis...
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Jae-Jung Suh Cornell University The new U.S. security posture, outlined in the 2001 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) and 2002 National Security Strategy and fleshed out in the "counterterrorism war" after the events of 11 September 2000, represents a bold step toward reasserting and buttressing U.S. hegemonic order in the "American lake" in...
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Does WSSD Stand for the 밯orld Summit on $hameful Deals?? Lee, Yujin (leeyj@greenkorea.org) International Cooperation, Green Korea United The World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) is over--not just over, it is dead. The huge world summit, which was held in Johannesburg, South Africa with 40,000 participants from...
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The case of the death of two schoolgirls in June 2002 1. Introduction South Korean society is indebted to civil organizations, active since the end of the 1980s, for their role in facilitating social change and development. And, contrary to the opinion of some scholars, the “new social movement” in South Korea demonstrates a remarkable sol...
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Lee Kwang Ho (madger@kdlpnews.org) Editor, Progressive Politics After the end of World War Ⅱ the strong power of the U.S. and the Soviet Union divided the Korean Peninsula into two. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Korea had been threatened with colonization by neighboring countries, such as Russia, China, Japan, an...
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