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2015 SADC People’s Summit Communique

‘RECLAIMING SADC FOR PEOPLE’S DEVELOPMENT – SADC RESOURCES FOR SADC PEOPLES’
We the representatives of more than 500 delegates drawn from grassroots movements, community-based organizations, faith based organizations, women’s organizations, labour, student, youth, economic justice and human rights networks and other social movements; gathered at the SADC People’s Summit convened by the Southern Africa People’s Solidarity Network (SAPSN); People’s Dialogue and Rural Women’s Assembly (RWA) at the Big Five Lodge, Gaborone, Botswana, from the 15th-16thAugust 2015, under the theme ‘Reclaiming SADC for People’s Development – SADC Resources for SADC People’;
Acknowledging the role of the Southern Africa People’s Solidarity Network in mobilising citizens of the regions to defend their livelihoods, offer alternatives and fight for their rights;
Noting the existence of SADC as a regional economic bloc with a relatively better peace and security dividend, in a well resourced Africa, but burdened with conflict and human insecurity;


http://www.southernafricatrust.org/2015-sadc-peoples-summit-communique/

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