Asia Pacific People for Environment
and Community
Putting People into APEC!
Forum
Friday August 31, 2007
Guthrie Theatre, Design Building,
UTS
Harris St, Ultimo
(next to ABC Building and footbridge)
Lori
Wallach (United States)
Trade Lawyer, Author and
Director of Public Citizen Global Trade Watch
‘Challenges to the APEC Free Trade
agenda’
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Sharan Burrow
President of the
Australian Council of Trade Unions and President of the Global Unions International Trade
Union Congress
‘Labour rights in
the Asia Pacific Region’
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transcript
Melville Fernandez
Coordinator of Caritas
Australia’s South Asia Program & Advisor to Asia Partnership for Human
Development (India)
‘APEC – what about the poor?
Audio File
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Don Henry
Executive Director,
Australian Conservation Foundation
“APEC and Climate Change’
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Conference
Saturday September 1, 2007
Guthrie Theatre, Design Building,
UTS
Harris St, Ultimo
(next to ABC Building and footbridge)
First Panel Session
APEC's free trade agenda and
the impact on labour rights and human rights
Professor Jane Kelsey (New Zealand)
University of Auckland and Action
Resource Education network of Aotearoa (ARENA)
‘Why APEC’s Free
Trade Agenda will Implode’
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transcript
John Sutton, National Secretary
Construction
Forestry Mining Energy Union
‘The lack of rights of
temporary migrant workers in the Asia Pacific region, the issue of Visa 457 workers in Australia
Audio File
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Kelly Dent, Labour Rights Campaigner
Oxfam
Australia
‘Campaigning against
union busting and labour market flexibilisation – with a focus on Indonesia’
Audio File
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transcript
Second Panel Session
APEC’s agenda and its
relationship to the environment and peace and security
Dave Sweeney, Nuclear Campaigner
Australian Conservation Foundation
‘Mining Uranium – Undermining the future: Australia’s
nuclear ambitions and the region’
Audio File
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transcript
Elmer Labog (Philippines), Chairperson of the
Kilusang Mayo Uno
May First Movement Labor Centre
‘Workers fighting back against APEC’s
intensified attacks on people’s economic and political rights!’
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of transcript
Abigail Jabines (Philippines), Greenpeace International
‘Climate Change, crisis or an opportunity for APEC
nations’
Audio File
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of transcript
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