Asian Peoples Movement on Debt & Development (APMDD) & Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC).
Sustainable development figures prominently in this year’s meeting of the Board of Governors of the Asian Development Bank’s with its chosen theme “Cooperating for Sustainability”. ADB has also expressed many times its support for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by directing “enhanced resources to human needs, infrastructure, and cross-border public goods to eradicate poverty and strengthen sustainable development.” For many Asian developing peoples, however, whose governments have participated for almost half a century in ADB’s poverty reduction programs, the 49th ADB-AGM also gives rise to challenging these pronouncements. While Asia’s economic growth has risen above other global regions, it is also the site of deepening wealth and income inequality. While poverty indicators are said to have improved over the years, impoverishment and deprivation continue to mark the lives of millions of people in ADB’s Developing Member Countries, rendering them highly vulnerable especially because our region is gravely impacted by climate change.
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The Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC) strongly condemns, in the strongest possible terms, the murder of a farmer protester and the wounding of several more at the barricade line on the Cotabato-Davao Highway at the hands of members of the Philippine National Police.
This use of state violence against unarmed civilians by police officers using high-caliber weapons is a gross transgression of human rights and deserves the highest form of outrage from all sectors of society. The barricade was a peaceful and desperate protest action, set up by around 6,000 farmers and lumad peoples from several towns in Cotabato to demand immediate relief from the drought that had ravaged the province since November last year. |
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