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| Sunday, 25 September 2005 |
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Peace Day Declaration for South Asia The South Asia Partnership (SAP), an international network of non-governmental organisations working towards empower of people at the grass roots through community based organisations, has condemned the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in the region and escalating defence expenditures, and called upon governments to immediately cease any activity that instigates violence, destabilises social security, and threatens human life and the freedom of citizens. The organisation has adopted a thought-provoking Declaration to mark UN Peace Day, which fell on September 21. The declaration follows the fifth SAP People's Summit held in Bangladesh this year, at which activists and development workers representing 60 civil societies worked together to formalise ideas by discussing the issues and suggested action plans under the five major themes of Hunger and Disaster, Trafficking and Human Security, Peace and Demilitarisation, Social Security and Democracy to be undertaken to institutionalise the people's voices of the region. The summit decided that, as a first step, a Peace Day Declaration would be drafted to mark International Peace Day as a show of solidarity in the peace campaigning process in Sri Lanka and the rest of South Asia. |
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