IFPRS

Book on first IFPRS is off the press

IBON together and its co-organisers are pleased to announce the release of A Celebration of People's Struggles, A Festival of Hope—the printed conference proceedings of the International Festival of People’s Rights and Struggles (IFPRS) held in Manila last year.

From July 2 to 6, 2011, a wide range of people representing workers, peasants, women, indigenous peoples, migrants, artists and cultural workers, youth and other sectors from all over the world gathered in Manila for the first ever IFPRIS. The festival served as space for peoples from Asia and the Pacific, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, North America, and Europe to share and learn from each other about new and longstanding threats to people’s individual and collective rights. It became an occasion to draw lessons from and celebrate the victories of people’s struggles to claim and assert their rights.

International Festival for Peoples’ Rights and Struggles: A Celebration of peoples’ struggles, a festival of hope

Manila, Philippines
July 15, 2011

Some 3,000 participants from 40 countries across Asia and the Pacific, Africa, Middle East, Latin America, North America and Europe concluded the first-ever International Festival for Peoples’ Rights and Struggles (IFPRS) on the first week of July in the Philippines with an overflowing of energy and commitment to defend people’s rights and carry on the struggle for freedom, democracy and social justice. The IFPRS was a rare opportunity for people’s movements, progressive institutions, groups and individuals across the globe to share and learn from each other about new and longstanding threats to people’s individual and collective rights, while exploring solutions that address the systemic roots of these problems.

From July 2 to 6, 2011, a broad range of activities including simultaneous forums, workshops, exhibits, strategy sessions, film showings and speak out/march were held in a number of halls and theatres at the University of the Philippines Diliman campus in Quezon City.