AFA attended a meeting hosted by the UNI-ASETUC (ASEAN Service Employee Trade Union council) meeting last November 26, 2007. SorKorPor Secretary General Chaiwat Suravichai represented AFA to this meeting. He met then incoming ASEAN Secretary General Dr. Surin Pitsuwan Mr.Christopher Ng (Regional Secretary of UNI Apro Regional Secretary) Dr. Rene E Ofreneo (ASEAN Inter-University Conference) […]
AFA will hold a regional consultation workshop, entitled “ASEAN at 40: Challenges to Asian Farmers Posed by the Charter and Economic Community Blueprint”. The workshop will be held on December 20-21, in Bangkok, Thailand. It will be hosted by Sor Kor Por, or Farmers’ Federations’ Association for Development in Thailand. This consultation is part of […]
AFA representatives Vic Fabe of PAKISAMA and Khun Wikit of SorKorPor, together with the AFA Project Officer for Operations Jun Virola and other representatives from SorKorPor, including its Secretary General Chaiwat Suravichai, attended the convention and training on Natural Farming in Jeju, South Korea on 4-15 November 2007. The convention provided an opportunity for AFA […]
AFA representatives from PAKISAMA (Ka Vic Fabe) and SorKorPor (Khun Wikit), together with the AFA Project Officer for Operations (Jun Virola) and other representatives from SorKorPor (including its Secretary General Chaiwat Suravichai) attended the convention and training on Natural Farming in Jeju, South Korea last November 4-15, 2007.
There were three successive conferences organized by CSOs prior to the ASEAN Summit, all hoping to make inputs to the official Summit. AFA attended all three major conferences: 6th ASEAN People’s Assembly (APA), ASEAN Civil Society Conference (ACSC) 2007 and ASEAN Civil Society Conference (ACSC) 3. Due to its active participation, AFA became visible and […]
AFA attended the ASEAN+ Civil Society Conference (ACSC-3) held last 2-4 November 2007 at the Peninsula Excelsior, Singapore, entitled “Building an ASEAN People’s Agenda”.
The AFA Secretary General attended the Synthesis Conference-ACSC 2007 held last October 27-28 in Singapore. This was organized by the Singapore Institute for International Affairs (SIIA).
AFA co-organized a panel session entitled “Towards Fair Trade in an Integrating ASEAN: Perspectives of Workers, Farmers and Informal Sector” held at the EDSA Shangri-La Hotel in Mandaluyong City, Philippines last October 25, 2007. The panel session was one of the concurrent panel sessions conducted during the 6th ASEAN Peoples’ Assembly (APA) with the theme […]
