2024: the year crises got worse, but can things get better?
December 30 2024 Focus on the Global South Two thousand and twenty-four was marked by three...
FRANCISCO (KA DODONG) NEMENZO: SOCIALIST, PATRIOT, FRIEND
Focus on the Global South deeply regrets the passing of Dr Francisco (“Dodong”) Nemenzo. Dr...
EVEN AS THE MULTIPLE CRISIS DEEPENS IN ASIA, SOCIAL MOVEMENTS ADVANCE THE STRUGGLE FOR ALTERNATIVES
Focus on the Global South December 2024 The so-called ‘Asian century’ is a veritable jumble...
Jess Santiago plays one of his songs at a gathering of artists-activists in Dhaka, Bangladesh. February 2024. Photo by Joseph Purugganan.
Human Rights Defenders honored for their work to promote and defend human rights
By Joseph Purugganan Originally published here. Written for Amplifying Human Rights Through Music:...
Filmmaker JL Burgos and his mother Edita Burgos protesting the X-rating given by the Movies and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) to their film Alipato at Muog, a documentary on the search for missing activist Jonas Burgos. Photo by Chantal Eco.
Culture amidst Conflict
By Joseph Purugganan Originally published here. Written for Amplifying Human Rights Through Music:...
Advancing Human Rights, Economic Justice, and Participatory Democracy: A Call to Action
2024 December 17 Joint Statement on the 76th Anniversary of the UDHR and the 6th Year of the...
![[Press Release] On the sixth year of the adoption of UNDROP, criminalized Filipino peasants continue the fight to regain their liberty, assert their rights, and advance their agrarian struggles together with solidarity movements](https://focusweb.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/34658614460_8fbe600f3d_k-627x376.jpg)
[Press Release] On the sixth year of the adoption of UNDROP, criminalized Filipino peasants continue the fight to regain their liberty, assert their rights, and advance their agrarian struggles together with solidarity movements
2024 December 17 Manila, Philippines 一 In commemoration of the sixth year anniversary of the...
![[JOINT STATEMENT] Laos: States should ask “Where is Sombath?” at upcoming review of human rights record](https://focusweb.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Sombath-034b-627x376.jpeg)
[JOINT STATEMENT] Laos: States should ask “Where is Sombath?” at upcoming review of human rights record
15 December 2024: On the 12-year anniversary of the unresolved enforced disappearance of Lao civil...
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Indian Civil Society Demands a new democratic financialsystem on World Bank/IMF’s 80th Anniversary
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FRANCISCO (KA DODONG) NEMENZO: SOCIALIST, PATRIOT, FRIEND
Focus on the Global South deeply regrets the passing of Dr Francisco (“Dodong”) Nemenzo. Dr...
![[Press Release] On the sixth year of the adoption of UNDROP, criminalized Filipino peasants continue the fight to regain their liberty, assert their rights, and advance their agrarian struggles together with solidarity movements](https://focusweb.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/34658614460_8fbe600f3d_k-150x150.jpg)
Focus on the Global South is an activist think tank in Asia
providing analysis and building alternatives for just social, economic and political change.
We work on the following thematic areas:
Political Economy of Development
Unpacking the dominant model in order to raise critical understanding among broad constituencies, and to support frontline communities challenging the negative impacts of development
Power and Democracy
Expanding critical analysis to link economic and development policies with political trends, human rights abuses and violent conflict in order to empower local communities to fight challenges and claim their rights and spaces
Peoples' Alternatives
Drawing attention to social and political resistance and change to put forth people's own visions and practice for a better world that can form elements of the deglobalisation paradigm