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Kathmandu Friday January 04, 2002 Paush 20, 2058.
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SAARC Peoples’ Forum
meets
Post Report
KATHMANDU, Jan 3:The different peoples from the
SAARC region met today in the second SAARC Peoples’ Forum to seek the SAARC delegates
hold discussions on the security of livelihood, freedom of movement and the security
against human trafficking here today.
The decision of the meeting and the
"Mukti-Paani" declaration will be submitted to the Office of the SAARC
Secretariat tomorrow where the delegates will have discussions on the issues, said one of
the speakers at the meeting.
The purpose of convening SAARC Peoples’
Forum is to facilitate formation of a common regional voice and to influence government
policies in the SAARC countries, Sandhaya Shrestha, programme co-odinator at OXFAM said.
This forum was established by two networks, the
South Asia Network on Food, Ecology and Culture (SAFEC) and South Asian Network to Resist
Trafficking in Women and Children in order to overcome the problems of poverty, food
insecurity and insecurity of livelihood of the common people, as women and children are
more vulnerable to various forms of violence including trafficking.
The forum has also urged the SAARC governments
to see to the critical connection subsisting between the food security at the household
level as primary measure to lessen the vulnerability of women and children in falling prey
to the trafficking mafia.
Five participants from Bangladesh, different
participants from NGOs, INGOs and representatives from Nepal were present at the
conference. The programme was organised by SAFEC, National Alliance for Food Security
(NAFOS) and Alliance Against Trafficking in Women And Children (AATWIN).
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