Karibu Foundation

Global Convergence for People's Climate Action
2020-10-19 13:00 - 15:00 (Europe/Oslo) | Online
The peoples of the global South are under siege by the COVID-19 pandemic and the climate crisis. Peoples and communities battling flash floods in Bangladesh and Senegal, landslides in Nepal, toxic haze in Indonesia, supertyphoons in the Philippines, and extreme droughts in Kenya and Bolivia are furthered burdened with their countries’ failing health and social protection systems and enduring inequalities made more pronounced by the pandemic.
Governments are using the exigencies of the global pandemic to further violate human rights. In many instances, the pandemic has been used as an excuse to ignore free, prior, and informed consent of communities. Women environmental and land defenders are targets of harassments and extra-judicial killings. The states’ pushback against peoples’ fundamental rights, is getting bolder.
As we gear up for action to ensure that the post-COVID-19 era is an era of climate and social justice, we need to collectively reflect on these crises, understand their deeper roots, and coe up with relevant strategies to advance our struggles given our new contexts.
What is the Convergence for Peoples’ Climate Action
The Convergence for Peoples’ Climate Action is an online dialog where civil society and movements from the global South come together to share perspectives on the links and impacts of the climate crisis and the pandemic and their experiences in countering state’s pushback against people and the environment.
This global meeting draws the lessons and experiences of climate justice partners from the Philippines, Nepal, Bolivia, Senegal, Kenya, and Indonesia who have been advocating for inclusion of peoples’ voices in climate policy decision-making and in pushing for people-powered climate action.
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The outcomes of this meeting is important in gathering and consolidating Southern perspectives on the urgent systematic transformation that we demand. It intends to further enhance peoples’ campaigning for climate justice given the new challenges that we face, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, increasing climate extremes, and the crisis in multilateral climate policy making.
Who can join?
The Convergence for Peoples’ Climate Action is open for all members of civil society and peoples’ movements, especially Southern movements interested/engaged in climate justice advocacy. Please register here:
When?
The Convergence for Peoples’ Climate Action will be on 19 October 2020 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM (GMT+8 Philippine Time).
​The Convergence for People’s Climate Action is organized by IBON International together with its partner organizations in Bolivia, Indonesia, Kenya, Nepal, Philippines, and Senegal.

WEBINAR / Reclaim Our Rights
2020-10-14 10:00 - 12:00
WEBINAR / Reclaim Our Rights: Freeing tomorrow from the IMF-WB neoliberal pandemic
14 October, Wednesday
8:00 GMT / 10:00 CEST / 11:00 EAT / 16:00 GMT+8
(for your local timezone click here)
Sign up here: bit.ly/ReclaimOurRights
Today’s crises exposed the effects of the neoliberal policy of the U.S.-led International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group (IMF-WB) on the people’s right to health and other socio-economic rights. But these institutions continue to work for the domination of corporations in “development.”
While the global South and their peoples are sinking even deeper in debt, they oppose cancellations and trap people’s futures in continued debt bondage. In a time when the exploitative world economic system itself is under question, they remain steadfast in defending it in the name of “recovery”. Even in a time of health and economic crises, the IMF-WB both forward monopoly capitalist interests.
As the IMF-WB hold their 2020 Annual Meetings, the Asia Pacific Research Network (APRN), IBON International, the International Indigenous People’s Movement for Self-Determination and Liberation (IPMSDL), and the People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty (PCFS) invite you to this webinar. It will tackle issues such as debt in the global South, the continuing corporate-driven “development” approach, and the “new” rhetoric on a post-COVID “economic recovery”–a business-as-usual for transnational corporations and creditor capital disguised as responding to the pandemic and its aftermath.
More importantly, the webinar will highlight peoples’ and their organisations’ struggles in reclaiming their sovereignty, rights, and development from corporate capture, and forward people’s demands for people-centered economies in the context of the various crises today.
Speakers will include Joanna Cariño of the Cordillera People’s Alliance & the International Indigenous People’s Movement for Self-Determination and Liberation, Roland Nassour of the Save Bisri Valley Campaign, Kurniawan Sabar of the People Over Profit Network, Sarojeni Rengam of the PAN-Asia Pacific, Len Cooper of the International League of Peoples’ Struggle, and Jennifer del Rosario-Malonzo of IBON International.

Karibu Board Meeting
2020-09-24 08:00 - 17:00 | Oslo, Norway
The Karibu Board will be meeting in September 2020 in Oslo.
Cases to be processed before the meeting must be received before 24. August 2020 in order to be considered, and should be submitted via Karibu’s grant application and management system (GMS).
More information about the process, including Frequently Asked Questions, can be found here.
For additional questions, contact director Eilert Rostrup at post(a)karibu.no.

Karibu Board Meeting
2020-06-17 | Oslo, Norway
The Karibu Board will be meeting in June 2020 in Oslo.
Cases to be processed before the meeting must be received before 17. May 2020 in order to be considered, and should be submitted via Karibu’s grant application and management system (GMS).
More information about the process, including Frequently Asked Questions, can be found here.
For additional questions, contact director Eilert Rostrup at post(a)karibu.no.

Karibu Board Meeting
2020-04-28 | Oslo, Norway
The Karibu Board will be meeting in April 2020 in Oslo.
Cases to be processed before the meeting must be received before 28. March 2020 in order to be considered, and should be submitted via Karibu’s grant application and management system (GMS).
More information about the process, including Frequently Asked Questions, can be found here.
For additional questions, contact director Eilert Rostrup at post(a)karibu.no.

Karibu Board Meeting
2020-02-12 | Oslo, Norway
The Karibu Board will be meeting in February 2020 in Oslo.
Cases to be processed before the meeting must be received before 12. January 2020 in order to be considered, and should be submitted via Karibu’s grant application and management system (GMS).
More information about the process, including Frequently Asked Questions, can be found here.
For additional questions, contact director Eilert Rostrup at post(a)karibu.no.

Karibu Board Meeting
2019-12-12
The Karibu Board will be meeting in December 2019 in Oslo.
Cases to be processed before the meeting must be received before 12. November 2019 in order to be considered, and should be submitted via Karibu’s grant application and management system (GMS).
More information about the process, including Frequently Asked Questions, can be found here.
For additional questions, contact director Eilert Rostrup at post(a)karibu.no.

Kairos Palestine 10th Anniversary International Conference
2019-11-29 | Bethlehem, Palestine
Registration is now open for Kairos Palestine’s International Conference, which will take place in Bethlehem on November 29th, 2019.
The theme of this year’s conference will be “10 years of Kairos. Past, present and future”
For Registration, please visit: http://www.atg.ps/register/

UN International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
2019-11-29

Karibu Board Meeting
2019-10-10 | Oslo, Norway
The Karibu Board will be meeting in October 2019 in Oslo.
Cases to be processed before the meeting must be received before 31. August 2019 in order to be considered, and should be submitted via Karibu’s grant application and management system (GMS).
More information about the process, including Frequently Asked Questions, can be found here.
For additional questions, contact director Eilert Rostrup at post(a)karibu.no.

Norwegian Social Forum - Middle Year Forum
2019-09-19 08:00 - 2019-09-22 17:00
Theme: From Crisis to Change
Oslo, Norway
More information to come

World Week for Peace in Palestine and Israel
2019-09-15 08:00 - 2019-09-22 17:00
Theme in Norway: Hope and Action for Peace
More information to come

Karibu Board Meeting
2019-06-13 | Oslo, Norway
The Karibu Board will be meeting in June 2019 in Oslo.
Cases to be processed before the meeting must be received before 13. MAY 2019 in order to be considered, and should be submitted via Karibu’s grant application and management system (GMS).
More information about the process, including Frequently Asked Questions, can be found here.
For additional questions, contact director Eilert Rostrup at post(a)karibu.no.

Karibu Board Meeting
2019-04-04 | Oslo, Norway
The Karibu Board will be meeting in April 2019 in Oslo.
Cases to be processed before the meeting must be received before 04. MARCH 2019 in order to be considered, and should be submitted via Karibu’s grant application and management system (GMS).
More information about the process, including Frequently Asked Questions, can be found here.
For additional questions, contact director Eilert Rostrup at post(a)karibu.no.

Karibu Board Meeting
2019-02-14 | Oslo, Norway
The Karibu Board will be meeting in February 2019 in Oslo.
Cases to be processed before the meeting must be received before 14. JANUARY 2019 in order to be considered, and should be submitted via Karibu’s grant application and management system (GMS).
More information about the process, including Frequently Asked Questions, can be found here.
For more additional questions, contact director Eilert Rostrup at post(a)karibu.no.

Churches Witnessing with Migrants (CWWM) 9th Consultation - Morocco
2018-12-06 08:00 - 2018-12-08 17:00
The 9th Churches Witnessing with Migrants (CWWM) Consultation will be held December 6-8, 2018 in Marrakesh, Morocco. The consultation takes place in the context of the 2018 Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD), as well as the meeting of Heads of State and Government and High Representatives for the UN’s Global Compact on Migration (GCM) that will also take place in Marrakesh.
The CWWM Morocco Consultation meeting will not only register the presence and position of CWWM during the adoption of the GCM and the 10th GFMD but it will also serve as a CWWM meeting for strategic planning for continuing work.
CWWM is an international platform for advocacy and forthright action focused on global migration, particularly forced migration in all its forms. We are organized as a tripartite body of equals that includes migrants and representatives of migrant-serving and faith-based organizations from various faith traditions. In their practice of a tripartite arrangement, they have come to value working together and inclusively on acts of mercy, accompaniment and justice.
Program:
December 6 Exposure (Optional)
December 7 Group Caucuses/Consultation
December 8 Consultation/Workshops
Objectives:

To register CWWM’s presence and position during the adoption of the Global Compact on Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration and during the GFMD, and to make plans on how to engage in the follow up of the GCM on the national and international levels including its implementation.
To get updates and challenges about the efforts of CWWM participants and how the platform can maximize collaboration between them.
To plan and strategize the direction and future activities of CWWM including the strengthening of cooperation among CWWM participants at the regional level and the laying down of an infrastructure for welcome and solidarity for migrants and refugees.
To strengthen solidarity with church-related organizations and other groups working on migration in Morocco.

For further information, please contact the CWWM Secretariat:

Mervin H. Toquero
Assistant Program Secretary
Program Unit on Faith, Witness and Service (FWS) – NCCP
879 EDSA, Quezon City, 1104 Philippines
mtoquero@gmail.com

Jimarie Snap T. Mabanta
Program Assistant
FWS-NCCP
cwwm2013@gmail.com

Kairos Palestine International Conference
2018-12-06 - 2018-12-07 | Bethlehem, Palestine
Registration is now open for Kairos Palestine’s International Conference, which will take place in Bethlehem from December 6th – 7th, 2018.
The theme of this year’s conference will be “Hope where no hope is”
For Registration, please visit: http://www.atg.ps/register/

Karibu Board Meeting
2018-11-29
The Karibu Board will be meeting in November 2018 in Oslo.
Cases to be processed before the meeting must be received before 28. OCTOBER 2018 in order to be considered, and should be submitted via Karibu’s new grant application and management system (GMS).
The regular procedures and criteria related to application consideration applies for this new system.
For more information or questions, contact director Eilert Rostrup at post(a)karibu.no.

Norway's Premiere: "Village vs. Empire" Film
2018-10-13 16:00 - 17:30 | Norway Design and Architecture, Hausmanns gate 16, Oslo, 0182, Norway
The Karibu Foundation invites you to the Norwegian Premiere of the documentary film “Village vs. Empire” by Emmy award winning director Mark Kaplan.
Jeju Island, off the coast of South Korea, is also known as Stone Island, Peace Island, and Women’s Island. It is home to no less than seven world heritage sites. But it is a paradise with dark side. Here on this tiny ecologically unique island, a village is confronting an empire. In Gangjeong village, on the southern tip the island, the U.S. and the South Korean navies have been building a huge naval base as part of a geopolitical strategy to ring-fence China. They are thus thrusting the islanders in the crosshairs of future conflict.
The film will have its Norwegian premiere at the 2018 Norwegian Social Forum / Globalization Conference. Room: Mezzaninen
Director Mark Kaplan and Producer Nefise Lorentzen will be present for the film screening.
Ticket information available here: https://globkonf.ticketco.events/no/nb/e/globkonf18/globalisering.no
Trailer:

The film was made with support from the Karibu Foundation and Fritt Ord.

Seminar: Shrinking Space for Civil Society and Human Rights Defenders
2018-10-12 12:00 - 13:30 | Norway Design and Architecture, Hausmanns gate 16, Oslo, 0182, Norway
Human rights defenders, environmentalists, community leaders and student activists around the world are subjected to persecution, violence, surveillance, and criminalization. This is not new, but there is growing concern that social movements and civil society’s room for action, both internationally and locally, is getting smaller. In other words, the room is closing and the space is shrinking.
We have gathered activists from different parts of the world and representatives from international organizations to illustrate this,from both global and local levels. What experiences do activists from different parts of the world have? How does one continue to work despite oppression? And how can activists, civil society representatives and human rights activists from different parts of the world work together to create conditions that preserve and extend the room for action for themselves and others?
With: Tetet Nera-Lauron, (Coordintor for Peoples’ Movement on Climate Change), Carlos Fernandez (Inter-Church Justice and Peace Commission), Pablo Neri from Pará, Brasil (MST), Lindah Chido (Students at risk)
Seminar hosted by: Peace Brigades International, Karibu, LAG, SAIH
The seminar is part of the program for the 2018 Globalization Conference / Norwegian Social Forum in Oslo, and you will need a ticket to the conference to attend. Tickets are available now, both in the form of a conference pass or day pass.

Globalization Conference (Norway Social Forum)
2018-10-12 - 2018-10-14 | Norway Design and Architecture, Hausmanns gate 16, Oslo, 0182, Norway
The Globalisation Conference is the main program of NSF, and is the largest political workshop of civil organisations, labour unions and political parties in Norway. The conference is organised every other
year in Oslo, and serves as a meeting place and forum for activists, trade unionists and other engaged in the communities in Norway to collaborate and work for a world where people, society and the
environment are understood as more important than economic gain. The conference consists of plenaries, seminars, workshops, debates, cultural events and lectures that are organised with speakers from both Norway and abroad. Approximately 1000-1500 persons participate at each conference.
The theme for the 2018 Globalisation Conference is “Makt” in Norwegian, or “Power” in English.
For more information and ticket information, visit: http://globalisering.no/en/
Karibu is an observing member of the Norwegian Social Forum, and a member of the coordinating board.

Karibu Board Meeting
2018-09-19 | Oslo, Norway
The Karibu Board will be meeting in September 2018 in Oslo.
Cases to be processed before the meeting must be received before 19. AUGUST 2018 in order to be considered, and should be submitted via Karibu’s new grant application and management system (GMS).
The regular procedures and criteria related to application consideration applies for this new system.
For more information or questions, contact director Eilert Rostrup at post(a)karibu.no.

International civil society conference on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), agriculture and fisheries - Cameroon
2018-09-11 - 2018-09-13 | Yaoundé, Cameroon, Yaoundé, Cameroon
“More and Better” Network invites you to their International civil society conference on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), agriculture and fisheries that will be held in Cameroon, 11-13th September 2018. The main objectives for the conference are:

To show that agroecology and other forms of sustainable agriculture and fisheries are key to reach many of the SDGs.
To strengthen the arguments and increase the pressure on governments and international institutions to increase the financial and political support for agroecology and other forms of sustainable agriculture and for small-scale sustainable fisheries.
To share experiences and strengthen the cooperation among and between farmers’ and fisherfolks’ organizations, other non governmental organizations (NGOs) philanthropic foundations and others which support the objectives of the conference.

130 organizations have signed on to the letter on the SDGs and agriculture which the More and Better Network invited other organizations to sign on to. The letter is also a base for the conference. See it at www.moreandbetter.org
Participate in the conference!
More and Better hopes you / your organization will take part in the conference. Please fill in the registration form before August 20th.
We have got some financial support to fund parts of the costs for some participants. If you want to apply for financial support for the participation, please fill in the application form before August 10th.
For more information and questions, please send a mail to secretariat@moreandbetter.org or to Aksel Naerstad, international coordinator; aksel@moreandbetter.org
The conference is supported in part by the Karibu Foundation.
