Program

July ６th（Sun.）

Sapporo Convention Center, Conference Hall

　　Guest Speakers Medha Patkar (Save Narmada Movement), Kumi Naidoo (Global Call to Action Against Poverty), Sheich Shaban Mubaje (Mufti og Uganda Muslim Supreme Council), Walden Bello (Focus on the Global South), Junko Edahiro (Member of Prime Minister's Cabinet Council on Global Warming), Noerine Kaleeba (The Aid Support Organization) and more.
■Place: Sapporo Convention Center Conference Hall

■Host:  Hokkaido Peoples' Forum on G8 Summit

         Japan G8 Summit NGO Forum

　Welcome Party
      African Dance, Ainu songs and dance, speeches
■Place: Sapporo Convention Center Conference Hall

■Host:  Hokkaido Peoples' Forum on G8 Summit

         Japan G8 Summit NGO Forum

Julu 7th（Mon.）

HU Room 3

free

Women Workers and FTA

Committee for Asian Women (CAW)

L

free

Expressive Arts Applied Workshop on Environment and

Human Rights -Message from 2050

Japan Network Against Trafficking in Persons

NGO Advocacy: Bringing Citizens' Voices to the G8 Summits

Speakers
Dennis Howlett ( Make Poverty History)
Nasserie Carew (Interaction)
Sylvain Browa (Interaction)
Sergio Marelli (Associazione NGO Italiane)
Ohashi Masaaki (JANIC)
Shimosawa Takashi (JANIC)

Japan NGO Center for International Cooperation

Public Forum On Illegitimate Debt, Ecological Debt and Climate Justice

Illegitimate debts include those which were used to finance projects and policies that caused harm to people and communities and led to destruction of the environment. The struggle for climate justice involves canceling these illegitimate debts and opposing the continued financing of environmentally destructive peojects. Rich countries owe the peoples of the South a huge ecological debt. Thus financing for mitigation and adaptation should be reparations, and not in the form of loans as some G8 countries and the World Bank is promoting.
Main Speaker: Ms Lidy B. Nacipl (Jubilee South)

Roles and Responsibilities of G8 Countries on Iraq War

Japan International Volunteer Center （JVC）

C- Conference Hall
Free

Global Voices to End Poverty

What has to be done to end world poverty? NGOs representatives will discuss on the Responsibility of G8, MDGs, Emerging Challenges (Food Crisis, Climate Change, Innovative Financing Mechanisms, Disease like COPD, etc), and the Role of Civil Society, in the particular roundtable style.
Guest: Noerine Kaleeba (Uganda), Michiya Kumaoka (Japan)

2008 Japan G8 Summit NGO Forum, Poverty and Development Unit

13：00〜15：30

HU Room3

Workshop on women in informal sector

Content: Informalization of women's labour in Asia

Under the global trend toward flexible employment, women are forced to move into unstable working conditions and the informal sector, where human rights protection and social protection are ignored. Migrant workers rushing into cities also seek jobs in the informal sectors. But women are fighting against this reality. In this workshop, we will share the experiences of women form various countries.

  CAW (Committee for Asian Women)

  C103
Free

Exhibition of Photographs of Pikas, The Relics of The Ice Age, Being Faced with Threat to Global warming and Development 

Pikas -tennis ball-sized rabbit- like animals that live among boulders on talus slopes in mountain areas such as Daisetsu Mountains or Hidaka Mountains in Hokkaido--mow face a great threat due to global warming and development. We will show you photographs of pikas and explain about them, their ecology and conditions.

 The Pika Fan Club

  Ｃ105
Free

Neither Winner Nor Looser, What Is Another Alternative?

Considering Disparties from a Japanese and Global Perspective

We have the gap in Japan and all over the world however it is not true that we consider everything in the world would be win or lose. Not winner or looser but what is other alternative? Various speakers from Japan and world present interesting alternatives from their point of view. And we consider and discuss together wit participants.

Speakers

Ms. Prune Helfter (Medecins du Monde)

Mr. Keiso Fujitani (HCA-JCCU)

Health Cooperative Association of Japanese Consumer’s Cooperative Union

Health Cooperative Association of Japanese Consumer’s Cooperative Union

  C106
Free

 The Global Food Crisis: Responses and Solutions
contents:TBA

 Asia-Pacific Network for Food Sovereignty

C Small Hall

Free

Rethinking Global Governance: Questioning the Accountability of G8 Summit

Jubilee South, including John Sammuel   

 Japan International Volunteer Center/ ActionAid International

  C201
500 Yen

 The Potential of International Solidarity Levy and Currency Transaction Development Levy:

An innovative Mechanism Both to Fund Development and Control International Speculation

To reduce the negative impacts of speculation, such as rapidly rising prices of crops and oil worldwide as well as a lack of funds for development, the international solidarity levy in general, and the currency transaction development levy in particular, have become a focus of attention. Within this trend, the all parliamentary group on international solidarity levies was established in Japan in February 2008. This workshop will clarify the essence of the international solidarity levies, through discussion both by panelists and by participants. Main speakers: Uemura Takehiko (Associate Professor, Chiba University), Tanaka Tetsuji (Coordinator, Altermonde), etc.

 Altermonde, RESULTS Japan,　The Study Group on Global Tax, Chiba University Research Centre for Global Welfare

  C202

free

The G8 and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

 

Based on the result of the Indigenous Peoples Summit and the contents of the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) which was adopted last year, the impact of the Climate Change and the decision-making by the G8 countries will be discussed from the viewpoint of the Indigenous Peoples. Also, the meaning of the Resolution calling for the Recognition of the Ainu People as an Indigenous People in Japan which was adopted on 6 June in Japanese diet will be explained in the context of

international human rights standards. The Ainu people’s demands on the domestic implementation of the UNDRIP and the necessary reaction from the civil society as well as the government will be disucussed.

 Citizen's Diplomatic Centre for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

  C204
Free

 Reliability of the G8 on Climate Justice

 (Biofuel, REDD, Financial Mechanism and Climate Justice)

 leaflet

There are injustices between the developed countries and developing countries on climate change issues, such as energy consumption injustice, climate policy injustice, GHG emission injustice, negotiation process injustice, etc. We will distinguish these injustices by bringing up the issues of biofuel, REDD, and financial mechanisms. We will call for the G8 to implement a just climate policy and provide assistance for the developing countries.

- What is "climate justice"? (Onodera Yuri, Friends of the Earth Japan)

- Climate justice on the biofuel issue (Tomari Miyuki, Biomass Industrial Society Network (BIN)) 

- Climate justice on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (REDD) (Nakazawa Kenichi, Friends of the Earth Japan)

- Climate justice and the World Bank (Karen Orenstein, Friends of the Earth US)

- Panel Discussion "Legitimacy of the G8 on the Climate Issue" (Onodera Yuri, Tomari Miyuki, Nakazawa Kenichi, Andrey Laletin (Global Forest Coalition), Karen Orenstein

 Friends of the Earth Japan

   14：00〜17：00

  C Conference Hall
500 Yen

 How Can the Toyako Summit Tackle Climate Change?

Reports from NGOs on Japanese climate policy and its challengesin the international context, and discussion about roles of localgovernments and citizens for the further climate actions.

・Speakers; Alden Meyer (Union of Converned Scientists from USA), Mie Asaoka(Kiko Network), Yurika Ayukawa(NGO Forum) and more.

2008 Japan G8 Summit NGO Forum Environment Unit/

Kiko Network

   16：00〜18：30

HU Room 2
Free

 Waseda University Hirayama Ikuo Volunteer Center

  HU Room3
Free

 Free Access to Primary Healthcare: A Rewarding Strategy

Among the many barriers that impede access to healthcare, the obligation of service users to pay for health services represents a major obstacle. Every year, more than 100 million people fall into poverty because of disastrous health payments. During the forthcoming Hokkaido summit, G8 countries should clearly reaffirm the commitment made in 2005 at the Gleneagles Summit to promote access to free primary health care (wherever countries choose to provide this) and should specifically state their intention to support the abolition of direct payments by health service users ("user fees").

 Medecins du Monde Japon

  HU

Conference Hall

free

Tackling the HIV/AIDS issues :From Africa to G8 Summit

Part 1 HIV/AIDS issues in Africa and women’s activities

Speakers

Ms Noerin Kaleeba (The Aids Support Organization)

Ms IZUMI kaori (FAO)

Part 2 How G8 civil societies can tackle the HIV/AIDS issue

Sara Paterlini (CESTAS (Centro di Educazione Sanitaria e Tecnologie Appropriate

Sanitarie: Center for Health Education and Appropriate Health

Technology)

G8 Women‘s Forum,
Africa JapanForum, Hokkaido Red Ribbon Society
 

L Ecoplaza
Free

Conference on the Citizens Environmental Summit in Kobe

We are going to report about the Civil Environment Summit in Kobe, in 24-25 may. This summit was held mainly by citizens. In the summit, our motto was “Our planet earth, Decide by ourselves – Don’t decided only by G8

Kansai　Greens

  C104
Free

 Oxfam International “Action Now: Time to End Global Poverty”

Public meeting on Oxfam's activities to end global poverty Presentations by speakers, followed by question and answers from the public

 Oxfam International

  C105
Free

 50 years of Indonesia-Japan Friendship:

Japan Got Richer and Indonesia Got poorer

Speakers: Dian Kartikasari (Deputy Executive Director), Wahyu Susilo (Head of Advocacy and Networking Division)

Japan, which was the biggest donor/investing country, has performed many projects such as infrastructure maintenance and energy development in Indonesia. However, is it true that those projects have made the lives of Indonesian people rich? Who has fully enjoyed the benefits? In this seminar, taking up the projects performed with Japanese ODA as concrete examples, we would like to reconsider Japanese aid as a cause of human rights violations and environmental destruction.

 International NGO Forum on Indonesian Development　(INFID)

  C202

Free

MDGs and ODA: Beyond Commitments, Time for Action

 ODA Asia Forum

/GCAP SENCA
(Global Call to Action against Poverty Southeast, North&Central Africa)

C204

Free

 Biological Diversity-Road Map Workshop toward the year 2010

The 10th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP10) will be held at Aichi Prefecture. The year 2010 is an important year for discussions on the possibilities of achieving its goal set for 2010 and planning for the future. Already various groups, companies and governmental agencies have been considering their approaches toward the COP10. However, they are not in close coordination and a road map toward 2010 has to be made to generate a synergistic effect. In the workshop a road map will be formulated through discussions on what is needed and what should be done.

Environment Unit of 2008 Japan G8 Summit NGO Forum

  C103
300 Yen

 Report Meeting & Fair Trade in India and Bangladesh

PowerPoint presentations will be given on local activities in India and Bangladesh.

Volunteer activities

*Street children in support church and independence support centres

*Free private school for children in the village

*Mother house

International exchange

*Discussion with women parliamentarians in India and Bangladesh

Fair trade

*Exhibition of products in India and Bangladesh

Talk session with coffee and tea

Team Peace Challenger

   18：30〜20：00

 C Small Hall

Free

 Changing the Ｆuture -Activities of Ｙouth in Kenya

Plan International staff and youth from Kenya will give a presentation on the Vijana Boost project, enhancing youth participation in environmental protection, poverty, and HIV and AIDS related issues. The project is being carried out in the Embu district, eastern Kenya, involving 75 youth groups with members from teenagers to their early 30s. We will also introduce essays and drawings entitled "If I were the president of the world," created by children in several countries.

 Plan Japan

   18：30〜21：00

 Our Ｆuture, Our Environment, Our Self-Reliance: From Hokkaido-Ainu Moshir to Global Civil Society

In this session, we argue local issues in Hokkaido such as environment and agriculture  on global context. And focusing on how build self-reliant society both in Hokkaido and the South.

Speakers

Ms. Minnie Degawan(IndigenousPeoples Network for Change)

From La Via Campesina (World Farmers Movement)

Mr. Raymond Epp ( Meno Village)

Mr. Kurosawa Nobumichi (Trust Salun- Kushiro)

Hokkaido Peoples’ Forum on G8

   19：00〜21：00

HU

Room3

Free

 Change the World From Japan: Discussion on Global Issues and NGO Activities

Year 2008 is a special year as TICAD and G8 are both held in Japan, thus GOJ’s leadership will be questioned. We will take this venue as opportunity to bring up the agenda thru examples from each speaker and participant in line with what we can do from the experience and knowledge we have in Japan

 RESULTS Japan

HU

Conference Room

800yen(Students 500yen)

Documentary Film Showing "Stages from the World"

Documentary film show regarding medical activities by Kuwayama Norihiko in East Timor, the Philippines, Cambodia. Croatia, and Palestine. Let their voices of life reverberate throughout the world! Let's call out for peace at the venue.

Independent Film Showing Project "Stages from the World"

 L

free

Report from the Global Article 9 Conference to Abolish War

Let's have a global, romantic time in the evening of Tanabata!

(1) World Tanabata Action: People will write "My action to prevent climate change" on a tanzaku paper that will be collected from all over the world and exhibited in various places later on. (2) Introduction of international voluntary service: Projects for environmental protection, education, culture, rural development, etc., will be introduced by NGO leaders from the G8 countries and Indonesia. (3) Global cultural experience: We will enjoy games, dance, tea and sweets from various countries!

Peace Boat

HCC

free

Alternative Concert with Mayo Shono & Ippei Suzuki

An acoustic concert by Ippei Suzuki, an artist active in Hokkaido and Mayo Shono, representative of the Musicians without Borders. Music can bring people's hearts together. To create a healthy earth, let's join our voices. When people are in the same space/time with music, we can feel that everybody is a messenger to the future. That is an alternative concert!

Musician without Borders

C 103

free

Public Forum: The Food Crisis After Decades of IFI Conditionalities and the Debt Burden

Introduction - Lidy Nacpil

JS-APMDD; LDC Watch, SAAPE, APNFS, Jubulee Kyushu, Attach Japan, St. Columba's Society, PARC Japan

C 104

free

Ending Hunger Game

The Ending Hunger Game is a simulation game that teaches about the present situation of the world and allows players to create a world that is free from hunger in cooperation with other participants.

Hunger Free World

C 105

free

End World Poverty!

What We Can Do for Achieving the MDGs

End extreme poverty worldwide by 2015! To achieve this historical promise of the 2000 MDGs will fall largely on the shoulders of the governments and citizens of the rich countries. 2008 will mark the actual midpoint for the achievement of the MDGs by 2015 and we must take action! What can we do in order to ensure that all the people of the world can get equal education, healthcare and medicine, food, water and sanitation, etc., which are vital, and each individual’s right to live with dignity? In this workshop, participants will have active discussions on this with Minar Pimple, Deputy Director of the United Nations Millennium Campaign Asia.

Hottokenai Sekai no Mazushisa

(Don't Let It Be: World Poverty)

C 201

free

Voices from Palestine to Hokkaido One in Four Refugees in the World is a Palestinian

One refugee in four in the world is Palestinian. They are still facing a hard situation, even though it has already been more than 60 years since they became refugees. This is a participatory workshop to think about Palestinian refugees through watching videos and photos.

Campaign for the Children of Palestine

C 202

free

 Workshop of Youth Activities on Climate Change towards the G8: The Power of Youth Can Change the World

Youth gathering in Hokkaido from Japan and overseas towards the G8 will give a presentation about the dangerous situation facing the future, their activities and the position of youth in the world, and send their opinions about the world and future. Then we will discuss what we can do for a sustainable world in the future.

C 204

300yen

World Tanabata Action & International Volunteer Fiesta

Let's have a global, romantic time in the evening of Tanabata!

(1) World Tanabata Action: People will write "My action to prevent climate change" on a tanzaku paper that will be collected from all over the world and exhibited in various places later on. (2) Introduction of international voluntary service: Projects for environmental protection, education, culture, rural development, etc., will be introduced by NGO leaders from the G8 countries and Indonesia. (3) Global cultural experience: We will enjoy games, dance, tea and sweets from various countries!

July 8th (Wed.)

C 104

500 yen

"Yubari" Session* Debt and Donors' Responsbility

Presentations:

Nishimura Nobuhiko (Hokkai Gakuen Univ)

Honda Masakazu (Asahi Simbun, tentative)

Ridy Nacpil or someone from Jubilee South

At this session we will discuss why Yubari city has turned into heavily indebted town, and examine the responsibility of both public and private donors, who already recouped their own money from Yubari. We will also discuss how the ongoing economic reconstruction policies will affect Yubari people's everyday lives. The case of Yubari is quite similar to the foreign debt issues which the South has experienced for a long time. In this sense, people in Japan can learn a lot from their freedom from debt movement.

C 105

free

C Small Hall

free

GCAP Session
"2008: a chance for action against global poverty"

Public meeting of GCAP (Global Call to Action against Poverty). Presentations will be given by speakers, followed by question and answers from the public.

C 201

free

Let's Make a Quilt for Safe Motherhood!

Every minute, a woman dies of pregnancy-related complications. What can we do to save the lives of pregnant women and newborns? At this event, fabric panels for safe motherhood, created by men and women to honor the lives of their loved ones, will be displayed and participants will make a quilt together, hoping for safe pregnancy and delivery throughout the world. Join us to send out messages for safe motherhood from Sapporo to the world!

C 204

We All Want to Live in Peace

Examing the G8 simit’s agenda points and the way it is held from the perspective of human rights and peace

Speakers

Akira Kawasaki (Peace Boat)

Kiyotaka Takahashi (JVC)

C Conference Hall

free

Advocacy Campaign to Change the World:

From Japan to Italy

"Linkage" between global issues and Tanzaku Action: One Million Wishes" is the main theme. In the belief, that advocacy campaign will have an increasing role in addressing global issues in the future, this workshop is organized to share the experiences of Tanzaku Action in Japan as well as the advocacy campaign in other parts of the world. There will be a panel discussion by speakers followed by workshops in small groups.

C Conference Hall

free