11th Asia-Europe People's Forum approaching

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ One of the side events of the forthcoming ASEM Summit in Ulaanbaatar, the 11th Asia-Europe People’s Forum (AEPF11) will be held on July 4-6 in the State House. With objectives to form solidarity of Asian and European people, to tackle urgent problems to the regional people and to deliver people’s voice to governments, the AEPF11 is expected to gather some 500 delegates, and 250 of them will be Mongolians. AEPF11 is structured to encourage discussion, sharing and the development and articulation of alternatives, and it has three phases. The Plenaries (day 1) will be the time for Context and Analysis where participants will discuss unifying threads and discuss our understanding of the processes that produce and replicate inequality, poverty, exclusion, injustices, rights violations, or climate change/global warming. The First Set of events/workshops is for the introduction into each of the seven themes, for this the format could be a panel discussion, inputs by speakers. “Lessons Learned, Successes and Failure: The Second Set of events/workshops” is for deepening of seven themes which allows the participants to discuss the contexts, problems and key barriers to taking agendas forward and the responses and strategies developed by movements and civil society organizations to respond to them. “Strategies for People’s Visions and Future Perspectives” will develop alternatives, People’s Visions. This is where the processes for how to get there, how to progress towards them are presented. These again correspond to themes and that have been the focus for discussions in the first two phases. A moderated Plenary where a summary of each of the Thematic Clusters’ proposals for Strategies for People’s Visions will be shared with all participants. Besides these events, organized by Working Groups for each thematic cluster, there will be space for self-organized workshops.