by Joseph Purugganan Governments are now scrambling to conclude negotiations for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP), the mega free trade and investment deal launched 7 years ago by the ten countries...
Workers, farmers, fishers, indigenous peoples, rural women, and health and trade justice advocates...
Leaders from member countries at the 2nd RCEP Summit in Manila in 2017. Will countries come to an agreement when they meet again in Thailand on 1 November? [Photo from Presidential Communications Operations Office, Philippines via Wikimedia commons]
India’s difficulty in acceding to the mega regional free trade agreement, RCEP, currently being...
A rural market in Sagbahal, Odisha. [Photo from Wikimedia Commons]
Data confirms an acute demand crisis in rural India and beyond. by Ranjini Basu [Note: This...
Rachmi of Indonesia for Global Justice speaks at a Climate Justice rally during the 5th session of negotiations for a UN Binding Treaty for Transnational Corporations on Human Rights/ [Photo by Joseph Purugganan]
by Joseph Purugganan How do we ensure corporate accountability in the wake of rising power of...
Farmers, fishers, rural women, indigenous peoples, and civil society organizations come together to organize a press conference that aims to raise the alarm over the severe crisis in food, land, fisheries, livelihoods, and natural resources precipitated by the Duterte administration's neoliberal economic policies. [2019 October 15. Quezon City, Philippines. Photo by Galileo de Guzman Castillo.]
Statement on the World Food Day, 2019 October 15 We are in the midst of a food crisis. This is a...
Focus on the Global South (Focus) is currently seeking to the fill the position of Programme...
240 civil society organizations and 40 international networks have called on the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General to end the recently signed UN’s Strategic Partnership Agreement with the World Economic Forum (WEF). The...
Leaders from member countries at the 2nd RCEP Summit in Manila in 2017. Will countries come to an agreement when they meet again in Thailand on 1 November? [Photo from Presidential Communications Operations Office, Philippines via Wikimedia commons]
India’s difficulty in acceding to the mega regional free trade agreement, RCEP, currently being...
“The development of this road linkage infrastructure will effectively generate economic and social...
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Workers, farmers, fishers, indigenous peoples, rural women, and health and trade justice advocates...
Unpacking the dominant model in order to raise critical understanding among broad constituencies, and to support frontline communities challenging the negative impacts of development
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
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
