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\n\nMAEW Content (Fixed)<\/title><\/head>\n<body style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: #2d3748; line-height: 1.8;\">\n<p>\n <strong style=\"color:#2c7a7b;\">Mekong\/ASEAN Environmental Week (MAEW)<\/strong>\n is the annual platform and entity for the more profound \n <span style=\"color:#4a5568;\">with a political ecology lens<\/span>. \n Exchange among the frontline communities, regional civil society groups, and other actors on the issues of development, natural resources, and the socio-environmental impacts of large-scale projects and investments in the Mekong and Southeast Asia region.\n The forum aims to provide more space, understanding, analysis, and solidarity work among people in the movements with space to express themselves and chances to exchange among people who fight for similar causes. \n The storytelling, opinions, and demands will be expressed for a better future for the region and its people. \n Our mission is to have a more robust and continuous movement among the people in the region.\n<\/p>\n\n<p>\n <strong style=\"color:#2c7a7b;\">MAEW seeks solutions<\/strong>\n to environmental problems and gains justice in the region's economic, cultural, and livelihood issues,\n <span style=\"color:#4a5568;\">with a political ecology lens<\/span>. \n We examine power relations and support marginalized, underrepresented groups, namely, frontline communities, their partners, and civil society groups. \n Yet, it involves academics, media, and independent mechanisms and targets public dialogue with policymakers and businesses.\n<\/p>\n\n<p>\n <strong style=\"color:#4c51bf;\">Since the first Mekong-ASEAN Environmental Week in 2019<\/strong>,\n MAEW has been inviting different groups of people, networks, and relevant mechanisms to organize various activities on highlighted themes of the regional socio-ecological issues, which relate to democracy, climate justice, agriculture, food sovereignty, and transboundary impacts.\n<\/p>\n\n<p><span style=\"color:#2b6cb0;\"><strong>The said themes include:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"padding-left: 20px;\">\n <li><strong style=\"color:#2c5282;\">Cross-border Investment:<\/strong> Belt and Road Initiatives, Special Economic Zones, Free Trade Agreements<\/li>\n <li><strong style=\"color:#2c5282;\">Transboundary Impacts:<\/strong> Climate Crisis, Carbon Offset, Air Pollution, Waste<\/li>\n <li><strong style=\"color:#2c5282;\">Energy and Ecology:<\/strong> Hydropower Dams, Impacts on the Mekong and Salween Rivers, extractive industries<\/li>\n <li><strong style=\"color:#2c5282;\">Food producers:<\/strong> Farmers, Fisherpeople, Land Workers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>\n MAEW has been aiming to invite <strong style=\"color:#d69e2e;\">discussions not only on the problems<\/strong>\n and challenges but also on prevention and solutions raised mainly by local community representatives.\n MAEW, in particular, is an event that brings the progressive voices of the Mekong and Southeast Asia together to resolve the common and cross-border problems driven by overpowering ideologies, economic models, projects, and actors.\n<\/p>\n\n<p>\n Until now, MAEW has been working with <span style=\"color:#805ad5;\"><strong>more than 200 speakers and artists<\/strong><\/span>\n who join our panel discussions and art spaces and welcome thousands of public participants in various activities each year.\n<\/p>\n\n<p><strong style=\"color:#319795;\">Re-visit the previous MAEW<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"padding-left: 20px;\">\n <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sevanasea.org\/the-asean-we-want.html\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#3182ce; text-decoration: none;\">MAEW 2019 (English)<\/a><\/li>\n <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sevanasea.org\/maew_2020.html\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#3182ce; text-decoration: none;\">MAEW 2020 (English)<\/a><\/li>\n <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sevanasea.org\/maew_2021.html\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#3182ce; text-decoration: none;\">MAEW 2021 (English)<\/a> <span style=\"color:#a0aec0;\"> (Thai)<\/span><\/li>\n <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sevanasea.org\/maew2022.html\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#3182ce; text-decoration: none;\">MAEW 2022 (English)<\/a><\/li>\n <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sevanasea.org\/maew_2023.html\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#3182ce; text-decoration: none;\">MAEW 2023 (ENGLISH)<\/a> <span style=\"color:#a0aec0;\"> (Thai)<\/span><\/li>\n <li><a href=\"https:\/\/mk-sea-2024.my.canva.site\/2024\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#3182ce; text-decoration: none;\">MAEW 2024 (English and Thai)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><strong style=\"color:#2f855a;\">Core Principle of MAEW<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"padding-left: 20px;\">\n <li>Platform for communities, CSOs, youth, artists, media, and academia to raise voices on environmental concerns.<\/li>\n <li>Support current campaigns and benefit local communities hosting MAEW.<\/li>\n <li>Decentralized structure \u2014 everyone who initiates is a co-organizer.<\/li>\n <li>Encouragement of cross-border collaboration and shared ownership.<\/li>\n <li>Core funding supports logistics, inclusion, and activities; most participation is self-funded.<\/li>\n <li>Project SEVANA coordinates, evaluates, and communicates MAEW\u2019s progress.<\/li>\n <li>MAEW is a living platform, open to new ideas aligned with its principles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><strong style=\"color:#805ad5;\">The co-organizers and supporters of MAEW<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The following organizations supported MAEW between 2019\u20132024:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"columns: 2; column-gap: 40px; padding-left: 20px;\">\n <li>American Jewish World Service (AJWS)<\/li>\n <li>Community of Agro-Ecology Foundation (CAEF)<\/li>\n <li>CCFD \u2013 Terra Solidaire<\/li>\n <li>Chiang Khong Conservation Group (Thailand)<\/li>\n <li>Community Art Network (Thailand)<\/li>\n <li>Community Resource Centre (CRC) Thailand<\/li>\n <li>Doc Club & Pub<\/li>\n <li>EEC Watch<\/li>\n <li>Equitable Cambodia (EC)<\/li>\n <li>ETO Watch Coalition (Thailand)<\/li>\n <li>Eureka Films<\/li>\n <li>Fishery Action Coalition Team (FACT)<\/li>\n <li>Focus on the Global South<\/li>\n <li>GRAIN<\/li>\n <li>Hemlock Restaurant (Thailand)<\/li>\n <li>Hug Mae Nam Khong Tamui School<\/li>\n <li>HRDF<\/li>\n <li>Innovation for Change (IfC), East Asia<\/li>\n <li>International Rivers<\/li>\n <li>Land Watch Thai<\/li>\n <li>Laos Dam Investment Monitor (LDIM)<\/li>\n <li>MEENet<\/li>\n <li>MSSRC, Ubon Ratchathani University<\/li>\n <li>Mekong Watch<\/li>\n <li>Philadelphia Bookshop (Thailand)<\/li>\n <li>Prachatai<\/li>\n <li>Project SEVANA South-East Asia<\/li>\n <li>SACD<\/li>\n <li>Songsarn Coffee shop<\/li>\n <li>SEM<\/li>\n <li>STEP, the Philippines<\/li>\n <li>The Bean Embassy, Siem Reap<\/li>\n <li>Thai Volunteer Service Foundation<\/li>\n <li>Center for Peace and Conflict Studies, Chula<\/li>\n <li>The Mekong Butterfly<\/li>\n <li>RCSD<\/li>\n <li>Thai PBS<\/li>\n <li>TSEJ<\/li>\n <li>Towards Organic Asia (TOA)<\/li>\n <li>UMFD, Thailand<\/li>\n <li>World Rainforest Movement (WRM)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/body>\n<\/html>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t <section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-a4548dd elementor-section-stretched elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default pxl-row-scroll-none pxl-bg-color-none pxl-section-overlay-none\" data-id=\"a4548dd\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{"stretch_section":"section-stretched","background_background":"classic"}\">\n\n \n <div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-extended \">\n <div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-061ff79 pxl-column-none\" data-id=\"061ff79\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\r\n <div 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