Seminar on EU-Central America Association Agreements
Transnational Institute - 26.01.2009 13:03
Thursday 5th February 16.00-18.30
Venue: Transnational Institute
De Wittenstraat 25, Amsterdam
Free Entrance
For more information: www.fian.org / www.tni.org / www.xminy.nl
Association agreements between the EU and Central America, and the Right
to Food
The next round of negotiations for the association agreement between the
EU and Central America will take place in January 26-30 in Brussels.
Following this round FIAN-Sweden, FIAN-Nederland, Transnational Institute
and XminY bring two civil society speakers working on the impact of
association agreements on Human Rights.
The EU has made commitments to conduct a coherent policy. All areas of
policy should strive in the same direction and contribute to poverty
reduction, and likewise promote human rights and democracy. The EU also
has responsibility through its international agreements, such as trade
agreements, to ensure that people’s right to food is not violated. But
just how coherent is EU policy? Do the trade and agricultural policies
aspire to reach proposed development goals? What policy does it follow,
and what are the consequences?
After providing a background of the association agreements between EU and
Central America, these speakers will introduce a discussion on the impacts
on human rights, specifically on the right to food, the right to water and
the rights of women, and on criticism from civil society, providing
comparisons with the DR-CAFTA agreement between the US and Central
America.
FIAN, Food First Information and Action Network, is the international
human rights organization campaigning for the Human Right to Adequate Food
worldwide.
Transnational Institute s an international network of activist-scholars
committed to critical analyses of the global problems of today and
tomorrow, with a view to providing intellectual support to those movements
concerned to steer the world in a democratic, equitable and
environmentally sustainable direction.
XminusY Solidarity Fund is an independent fund that has been supporting
groups and organisations all over the world for almost 40 years.
Thursday 5th February 16.00-18.30
Venue: Transnational Institute Seminar Room
De Wittenstraat 25, 1052AK,
Amsterdam
Introduction: Brid Brennan (Alternative Regionalisms, TNI)
Guest Speakers: Jesus Garza (FIAN-Honduras / Coalición Hondurena de Accion
Ciudadana – CHAAC) and Yadira Minero (Centro de Derechos de Mujeres – CDM)
Free Entrance – Drinks at 18.30!!
For more information, please check www.fian.org , www.tni.org , www.xminy.nl
Send an email for registration to  fian.nederland@gmail.com
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