AFRICA-CHILE WEEK

MONDAY 9th TO SATURDAY 13th OF AUGUST 2010

This year the Soccer World Championship is played for the first time in South Africa. In February 2011 the summit of the African, Latin American and Caribbean Heads of State and Governments will take place in Lima, Peru.

For the Chilean people the African reality is little known and perceived as distant, despite being a continent located in the Southern Hemisphere. As a country immersed in our America, today we share many aims and challenges with the African countries:

The quest for another possible world, based on the defense of our cultures and visions of the world, the defense of our biodiversity and ecosystems and the fight against the harmful effects of global warming.

As people from the Southern Hemisphere we pledge for fair trade and global reduction of asymmetries and inequality. The 21st century should consolidate our fight for self determination and full independence of our Nations based on a real integration of our developing and emerging countries, guided by the South-South Cooperation.

The search for a multi polar world in peace and the construction of a new world order, driving the reinvention and the profound change of the current UN system and the multilateral financial institutions.

Yesterday’s and today’s realities of African countries, such as Algeria, Angola, Mozambique, South Africa, Egypt and the fight of the Saharawi people for their self determination and decolonization in the Western Sahara, amongst others, are not alien to us. With them and with all the other African countries we are tied with important links we want to further develop, vitalize and deepen.

This is why we have organized the First Africa-Chile Week 2010.

During the week from August 9th to 14th, 2010, the inviting entities and institutions will organize, jointly or individually, academic, artistic, political and cultural events to analyze, reflect upon and spread information on the situation of Africa and it´s countries, based on the past, present and future and it´s relation to Chile in the context of the Latin American and Caribbean integration process.

WE ARE WAITING FOR YOU, ORGANIZE AN PARTICIPATE, GET ACTIVE.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE FIRST AFRICA CHILE WEEK 2010

www.africachile.blogspot.com