On Saturday 12 July 2008, following a call by CIVICUS: World Alliance For Citizen Participation, Amnesty International and the Global Call for Action Against Poverty (GCAP), citizens of Africa will unite to express their solidarity with the people of Zimbabwe who are suffering persistent violations of their rights. Saturday represents the launch of a Pan-African Campaign of Solidarity for Zimbabwe, and will be followed by events continent-wide.
Groups representing workers, farmers, women and the youth troop to the Japanese Embassy in Pasay City, Manila to dramatize the protest against the global economic domination of rich nations that has burdened poorer nations like the Philippines.
GCAP Korea representative, Hykungung Kim as part of a group of international NGOs will meet Japanese Prime Minister Fukuda in Tokyo to hand over the first count of wishes from the Tanabata action
In Russia hand-in popular mobilisation events will happen in several cities Tyumen, Tolyatti, Nizhnij Novgorod, Vladimir, St. Petersburg and possibly the Japanese embassy in Moscow.
In Berlin a press conference organized by the Deine Stimme gegen Armut campaign will be followed on July 3rd by a rally in front of the Chancellory during which dozens of bamboo trees, will be tied with strips of paper/wishes, accompanied by Japanese 'taiko' drummers. In the afternoon a delegation of NGO reps will hand over a bamboo tree with "wishes" and demands by development NGOs to G8 sherpa Bernd Pfaffenbach.
GCAP UK will be doing a hand-in to Prime Minister Gordon Brown at 10 Downing Street in London on July 3rd with a decorated bamboo Tanabata tree. Oxfam, World Vision and CAFOD are amongst the groups involved as well as BOND and partner networks promoting the action including trade unions.
GCAP Azerbaijan are running a «G8» INTERNATIONAL CARTOON WEB CONTEST open to all cartoonists to send their wishes for action to the G8 leaders meeting in Japan.
We invite you to join the CIVICUS World Assembly delegates, Glasgow public and civil society in rally as they march from the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre (SECC) to Kelvingrove Park at 10:30 am on Saturday, 21 June 2008.
Presentation of petition by a delegation of children (with the media) to the Parliament, Ministries, UN Agencies and Embassies, demanding stronger commitment toward achieving the MDGs with emphasis on favourable policies which comprehensively seek agriculture, trade, health sectors to child-development oriented programmes.
