The 2010 EFN Asia Conference and the Members Meeting will be held on 7-8 and 9 Oct. 2010 at the Sultan Hotel. This year’s theme is “Migration and the Wealth of Nations.”
Pan Asian Youth Forum
Atlas will host its first Asia Youth Conference in Jakarta, Indonesia at the Sultan Hotel on 4-6 Oct. 2010. Young participants from around Asia will be invited for two full days of lectures, workshops, and brainstorming sessions in order to provide them with the skills they will need to spread the ideas of a free society in their home countries.
Sept 2010
STUDENT FIRST: Dialogue Series on Quality Education for All
School Choice Campaign and India Habitat Centre holds an open forum discussion on “National Curriculum: Does one size fit all?” on 8 Sept. 2010at the Casuarina Hall, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. For more information
Atlas Announces Winner of the 2010 Freda Utley Prize for Advancing Liberty
Tuesday, 02 February 2010 11:05
The Atlas Economic Research Foundation recently
awarded its 2010 Freda Utley Prize for Advancing Liberty to the Free Market Foundation (FMF) of Johannesburg, South Africa. Founded in
1975, FMF is an independent policy research and education organisation that
promotes the principles of limited government, economic freedom and individual
liberty in Africa.
Named for the late Freda Utley, an outspoken writer and
commentator against totalitarian regimes, the $10,000 prize rewards the efforts
of think tanks in difficult parts of the world that are most effective in
disseminating the ideas of freedom (limited government, the rule of law, free
enterprise, the dignity of the individual, etc.) to new audiences. The past recipients
of this award include CEDICE (Venezuela), ESPI (Serbia), NES (Georgia), ALT (Turkey).
FMF was recognised for its role in setting
the scene for the abandonment of apartheid and the adoption of a limited
government constitution with universal franchise. Black South Africans received
greater economic freedoms at the urging of the FMF, such as trading rights and
increased property rights. The books South Africa: The Solution and Let
the People Govern by FMF Executive Director, Leon Louw and his wife, Frances
Kendall, offered the hope of constitutional constraints and devolved democracy
as a path to a peaceful transition to a democratic order. In 1994, the ANC took
office, with Nelson Mandela as president, ushering in a few "golden years" of
freedom.
South Africans of all races currently face
a new threat to their freedoms: the ascendancy of socialists and communists in
government. The FMF once again operates in difficult circumstances that are
antithetical to individual liberty.
The Freda Utley Foundation established this
Prize at the Atlas Economic Research Foundation because, in the words of Freda
Utley's son, Jon Utley, "Atlas's core beliefs are very much in tune with Freda
Utley's, namely; concern for human poverty and misery, and the belief that
peoples of all nations have similar aspirations and can learn the universal
lessons of freedom and prosperity."
The Atlas
Economic Research Foundation is a U.S. non-profit organisation and
EFN Asia international partner. It works as an international hub for think
tanks advancing the ideas of freedom.
