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Title:    Third ASEAN + Civil Society Conference (ACSC III)
Posting Date: 12/3/2007 2:45:58 AM

Hold on November 2 - 4, 2007
Location in Singapore
Sponsor by SEACA

Objectives:

1. To enrich and deepen civil society understanding of ASEAN and regional processes.
2. To take stock of civil society advocacy and engagement in ASEAN and regional processes.
3. To provide a platform to discuss issues of common interest and ways to respond to those issues.
4. To provide a space for common strategizing on broadly engaging common issues.
5. To get a mandate for the ACSC to be a live process and not just a conference or parallel event to the ASEAN Summit.
6. To adopt a common declaration and agenda of action for the ACSC that includes research, advocacy and action.
7. To get a mandate for the 4th ACSC Thailand Host Committee for 2008 ABOUT THE ORGANIZERS.

Summary Outcome:

The ACSC III conference was actively participated by civil society organizations and trade unions across Southeast Asia to discuss issues of common concerns people’s lives in the context of the upcoming 13th ASEAN Summit which is scheduled to take action on the adoption of an ASEAN Charter. The out put of the conference we had developed the Singapore Declaration and No Bloody on an ASEAN Charter for urging the ASEAN and its member-states to consider our proposals and demands in their deliberation of proposed draft Charter at Summit.

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Date on: 21 November 2007
Reported by Ms. Aum Borany

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