{"id":4004,"date":"2025-10-20T04:23:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T04:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maew-sea.org\/?page_id=4004"},"modified":"2025-10-28T16:20:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T16:20:54","slug":"maew-2019","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/maew-sea.org\/?page_id=4004&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"MAEW 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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MAEW 2019<\/b><\/h3>

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Mekong-ASEAN Environmental Weekend (MAEW) 2019<\/b><\/div><\/div>

12-19 June 2019,\u00a0<\/b>Bangkok, Thailand<\/b><\/p>

It is striking how natural resources-based livelihoods have shifted rapidly due to large-scale developments by government policy in ASEAN countries and opening up for foreign investors outside the region and\/or intraregional investors such as the Chinese to invest in natural resource extractions. Although countries in the Lower Mekong region, such as Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Vietnam, have different political regimes, histories, and different groups of elites which shape the government\u2019s development agendas, the governments heavily focus on infrastructure development and the way in which these countries undergo development have shared similar patterns and models. For example, the model of hydropower development or<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t

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damming the Mekong River as a national development priority, coupled with industrialization for exporting, oil and gas exploration for energy security, the Special Economic Zone development, and increasing connectivity through trade and infrastructures have resulted in similar impacts on the ground \u2013 natural resource depletion and grabbing as well as adverse environmental and social impacts.<\/p>

Large-scale infrastructure development projects can have significant environmental, social, and cultural impacts that alter community livelihoods to an irreversible level. Moreover, the development projects may cause transboundary impacts to the neighboring countries, especially problems associated with resource extractions and unjust development that ignores the voices of the communities, such as wastes and pollution released from factories, flash flooding and releases from dams, and transboundary air pollution caused by large scale forest burning for contract farming and emissions from factories or industries. Unjust development has notably negative consequences, resulting in large-scale migration and resettlement or migration across borders.<\/p>

Considering the threats and the intense natural resource depletion that the ASEAN region faces, cooperation in good spirit among ASEAN countries has been fundamental- since ASEAN was established and the ASEAN Charter has been endorsed. The three pillars of the ASEAN Charter have been acknowledged as the main driving force of ASEAN integration and revolution. The ASEAN community is a community of opportunities under three community pillars: Political Security,\u00a0Economic, and\u00a0Socio-Cultural. However, the focus on the AEC blueprint and ignoring social and cultural pillars have negatively impacted community subsistence livelihoods.<\/p>

Mekong\/ASEAN Environment Week 2019 (MEAW) or\u00a0MEAW 2019<\/b>\u00a0will occur in Bangkok, Thailand, from 12-19 June 2019. The focus of MEAW is impacted by large-scale infrastructure developments and impacts in the ASEAN region \u2013 specifically, unjust development pushed forward by intra-regional investors such as Chinese and Thai investors. Since Thailand has assumed the chairmanship of ASEAN this year, Thailand\u2019s role in the region is crucial to \u2018Advancing partnership for sustainability\u2019 and is the driving principle of Thailand\u2019s chairmanship. Addressing changes and challenges, such as the issue of natural resource depletion across the ASEAN region, is one of the top priorities.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t

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Activities during MAEW 2019<\/b><\/div><\/div>

Wednesday 12-14 June 2019 \u2013\u00a0<\/b>The court Inquiry on the sugarcane plantation and land grabbing in Oddor Meanchey Province, Cambodia, between the local community representatives and Mitr Phol Company Limited.<\/p>

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Public\u00a0forum\/discussion on \u201cBusiness, Human Rights and peoples\u2019 justice: the case of\u00a0Xe Pian Xe Namnoy in Laos\u201d\u00a0<\/b><\/h5><\/div>

Date: Friday 14 June 2019\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0
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Venue:\u00a0<\/b>Student Christian Center, Ratchathewi, Bangkok at\u00a014.00-17.00<\/p>

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Greetings and introduction of Mekong-ASEAN Environmental week (MAEW2019)\u00a0<\/b>by\u00a0Premrudee Daoroung, Project SEVANA South-East Asia\/Laos Dam Investment Monitor (LDIM)
<\/b>The short video\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u201cAfter the dam collapsed, Xepian Xenamnoy Dam, Laos\u201d\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0by\u00a0Mekong Watch<\/p>

Date: Friday 14 June 2019\u00a0<\/b><\/p>

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Presentations;<\/b>\u00a0<\/p>