The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

Global Economic Justice Forum (GEJF) yesterday, announced an 11-point charter of demands for establishing economic justice in the world with equal participation of small and large countries.

The NGO platform has called upon all to be united against unethical and cruel process of globalisation that has turned human lives and civilisations into goods of corporate business.

Mohsin Ali, Organising Member of the forum read out the written announcement at a press conference at the Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU) auditorium in the city.

Organising Members Ahmed Swapon, Ashraful Alam Tutu, Rafiqul Alam and Aminul Rasul Babul also addressed the function. Members of the forum Hilal Fayejee, Abdul Awal, Firoja Begum, Imam Uddin, Pradip Kumar and Dipu Hasan also attended the press conference.They stressed on building a hunger free and exploitation free world. They urged the world community to work for humanitarian globalisation and to resist all kinds of communalism and racism. They said along with Neo-liberalisaton, aggressive corporate trade is going on in the world recklessly. "Only few developed countries are enjoying the sole benefit of it. Free market economy has turned into an open plundering ground. As a result economic injustice has been mounting."

They said decision-making authority of the less-developed countries including Bangladesh is being curtailed due to the pressure of multinational lending agencies. The foreigners are unwarrantedly intruding into natural resources, infrastructures and homogeneous cultures of the nation.

The GEJF earlier organised a three-day international conference in Dhaka from January 29 to January 31 to raise voice against worldwide economic exploitation in the name of globalisation. More than 50 organisations both local and foreign took part in the conference.