What:
- Sneak preview of “The shipbreakers”, documentary filmed in the yards of Alang, India in the presence of the award-winning US film makers.
- Exhibition featuring pictures by Pierre Torset of the shipbreaking yards of Bangladesh.
- Presence of South Asian environment, labour rights and human rights member organisations of the NGO Shipbreaking Platform.
Drinks
and refreshments will be served.
When:
Tuesday
6 November from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
Where:
European
Parliament Brussels, Room ASP 162
Who:
The
event will be chaired by MEP Carl Schlyter, rapporteur for the ENVI Committee
on this proposal, and will feature speakers from the South Asian countries that
are the most affected by the shipbreaking industry today. Amongst the
distinguished speakers, Rizwana Hasan, Chief Executive of the Bangladesh
Environmental Lawyers Association (BELA) and Advocate of the Supreme Court of
Bangladesh, has fought for years in the courts of Bangladesh to ensure that
laws protect the environment and workers against the disasters caused by the
shipbreaking industry. Rizwana Hasan received the Goldman Prize in 2009 for her
work on the shipbreaking issue. Jim Puckett, Executive Director of the Basel
Action Network, has been an environmental activist for more than 20 years, closely
following and taking part in the debates strengthening the Basel Convention,
the only international treaty that currently stops European ships before they
are sent for breaking on the beaches of South Asia. Ludwig Kraemer, a
well-known environmental lawyer, has analyzed in depth the proposal put forward
by the Commission. The European Commission has been invited to participate in
the panel.
A
short documentary filmed in Alang, India, in 2010 will be shown during the
event. Ralph Vituccio, an award-winning documentary film maker and Director of
Media Development in Communications Design at Carnegie Mellon, and his
colleague Tom Clancey, will be presenting the documentary and sharing their
experience while filming in India.
A
small exhibition featuring pictures taken in Bangladesh by Pierre Torset,a
French photographer, will be featured at the entrance of the event.
Source: NGO Shipbreaking Platform
http://us4.campaign-archive2.com/?u=cb94b4a01d7786c5e6f506be3&id=a32871138b&e=5522add298
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