Solidarity with Those Who Feed the World

Apr 17, 2019

Advancing land rights in Zamboanga

Apr 17, 2019

Event: Focus Policy Review 2019 launch

Apr 9, 2019

Observations on the Thai Election 2019

Apr 1, 2019

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Two days ago, @focus_ph went with @RightsIncPhil and @kiloskaPH to discuss land rights strategies and campaigns with peasants and indigenous peoples. #PeasantsRightsNow https://t.co/3z26uekpXy

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Today, International Day of Peasants' Struggles, we present an online photo exhibition to co-celebrate small-scale food providers’ perspectives on food sovereignty and their practices on food production, agroecology, and environmental protection https://t.co/PQAlq8SJTv

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VIDEOS

Testimonies on Farmer Suicides in India

26/12/2018

Sulagad: Our Life, Our Future

09/08/2018

RCEP is Intended to Prevent Government Regulation and Maximize Private Profit

28/07/2018

RCEP: People’s Movements Resist Free Trade Agreement

26/07/2018

Lumad in the Bangsamoro Video Series

09/07/2018

Philippines’ Drug War Kills Poor Addicts, Not Rich Dealers

23/05/2018

Philippines’ Duterte Uses ‘War on Terror’ Tactics to Crack Down on Leftists

23/05/2018

Lumad in the Bangsamoro: On Their Right to Identity

22/05/2018

May Day 2018 – Voices of Hope, Struggle, and Solidarity (Video)

30/04/2018

ទាសករស្បៀង Food Slave

16/04/2018

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Video: Let the Peasants’ Voice be Heard!

13/04/2018

Ka Ramon [by Bong Ramilo]

10/04/2018

VIDEO: End Impunity Now!

09/11/2017

International Workers’ Day in the Philippines 2017 – Video and Photos

04/05/2017

Video: The Changing Asian Development Finance Landscape: New Struggles and Challenges

04/05/2017

Video: Lack of Transparency, Oppression and Shrinking CSO Space Workshop

04/05/2017

Shalmali Guttal on challenging the Asian Development Bank (ADB)

02/05/2017

Building a movement to fight inequality

29/11/2016

[Video] Humanity and Nature: Traditional, Cultural, and Alternative Perspectives

06/06/2016

Access Delayed = Access Denied: Free Trade and Peoples’ Struggle for Access to Medicines in Southeast Asia

26/05/2016

Trabahante sa Citra Mina (Citra Mina Workers)

25/05/2016

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Shalmali Guttal speaks about the attacks on peasants

16/05/2016

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The secret ingredient for ending world hunger

10/03/2016

APEC economic agenda will lead to inequality

13/11/2015

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The ISDS Files: Joseph Purugganan on costs for the state

03/11/2015

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FOCUS in 60 seconds

16/10/2015

Standing on Contentious Grounds Documentary Series

06/08/2015

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The Struggle of Farmers in Hacienda Dolores

08/05/2015

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Life at Hacienda Luisita for New Farmer-Beneficiaries

22/03/2015

Exploring Asian Buen Vivir Through a Climate Lens

26/02/2015

Video: Lessons from Water Justice Campaigns

25/06/2014

Lumad in the Bangsamoro: Dreams and Fears

18/06/2014

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Filipinos Flashmobbed for Climate Justice at the WTO meet in Bali

04/12/2013

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Video: Press briefing on the lessons from the typhoon tragedy in the Philippines: a wake up call for governments to address climate change

20/11/2013

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Pablo Solon: Understanding the landscape of investment policy and development

18/09/2013

VIDEO: Press Briefing of the 3rd Parliamentary Delegation to the Laos on the enforced disappearance of Sombath Somphone

06/09/2013

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VIDEO: From Latin America to Asia, Learning from our roots: A conversation on Vivir Bien

26/08/2013

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Dr Michael Burawoy: Globalization Lessons for the Philippine Labor Movement

25/07/2013

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Video: Action at the Embassy of Laos in Manila on the 6th month of Sombath Somphone’s Forced Disappearance

25/06/2013

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Mary Ann Manahan: The Problem of Hunger is closely linked to Landlessness

14/06/2013

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Dr Michael Burawoy with Philippine Labor Groups

10/05/2013

Focus on the Global South Philippines joins International Women’s Day Flashmob against Corporate Mining

08/03/2013

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Focus on the Global South joins the 1 Billion Rising Campaign with a video

07/02/2013

Focus endorses the crowdsourced film “The Cause of Progress”

11/01/2013

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Feminist Flashmob for Women’s Rights (Philippines)

12/12/2012

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What’s Nature Telling Us

30/11/2012

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Crisis and Alternatives: Lessons for and From Asia and Europe

10/11/2012

Interview with Mr. Sombath Somphone at the 9th Asia-Europe Peoples’ Forum in Vientiane, Laos

10/11/2012

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Asia-Europe Peoples’ Forum 9 Press Conference

22/10/2012

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Focus’ Executive Director Pablo Solon: Why do we need to oppose plans to price nature?

30/08/2012

VIDEO: Whose “Clean” Development? Communities Speak Out

21/06/2012

Rio+20 : from sustainable development to green economy, what is at stake? which alternatives?

11/06/2012

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Pablo Solon: stop treating nature as a commodity

11/06/2012

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Let’s Make Agrarian Reform Go Viral!

01/06/2012

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Video Documentary “Global Crises, Regional Solutions”

08/05/2012

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Alternative Water Forum (FAME 2012) Highlights

11/04/2012

Report from the European & International delegation in Athens

26/03/2012

Horacio “Boy” Morales (1943-2012) on EdsaStories

08/03/2012

[Video] Patak-Patak

20/02/2012

[Video] Where is the Social in Green Economy?

10/01/2012

[Video] Nicola Bullard: Final hours of COP17 – Are they cooking the planet?

01/01/2012

[Video] Focus on the Global South founder and Akbayan Representative Walden Bello debates Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva on BBC World Debate

22/06/2011

Freedom Flotilla 2: Message in a Bottle

19/06/2011

[Video] Joy Chavez on the Divides of ASEAN and the Possibilities of Alternative Regionalisms

16/05/2011

[Trailer] Mekong Documentary Trailer

17/04/2011

[Video] To Shoot an Elephant

25/03/2011

[Video] News Click: Importance of the pro-democracy uprising in the Arab World and elsewhere

09/03/2011

[Video] University of California in Berkley: GLOBAL SOCIOLOGY – Walden Bello – Global Financial Institutions

09/03/2011

[Video] Climate Justice Now! Network Press Conference at COP 16

14/12/2010

[Video] Focus on 1000 Cancun in Thailand

10/12/2010

Land Grabbing: Via Campesina’s Action at the FAO Office

19/11/2010

“Let my Guitar Speak” – Jess Santiago

15/11/2010

Josua Mata of APL Responds to South Korea’s Deportation of Filipino Activists

15/11/2010

FOCUS ON THE GLOBAL SOUTH challenges the gains of the CDM in the Philippines

05/07/2010

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VIDEO: A World Without the WTO

28/06/2009

WTO Hongkong Deal: Why is it really bad for you?

18/10/2007

Video: Unconventional Warfare

04/07/2007

WTO Why is it really bad for you?

18/10/2006

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Suicide Jumpers: ‘Modern-Day Heroes’ in a Modern-day War

28/09/2006

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[Video] Before the Bombs Fell

28/03/2003

PUBLICATIONS

Focus Policy Review 2019: “Critical Junction: Derailing or Accelerating the Dictatorship Express”

12/04/2019

Revisiting and Reclaiming Deglobalization

07/04/2019

Offloading Risks & Avoiding Liabilities: How Financial Institutions Consider Hydropower Risks in Laos

06/03/2019

New Challenges and Strategies in Defense of Land and Territory

05/02/2019

Politics of Seeds: Common Resource or a Private Property

23/01/2019

The Agrarian Crisis and Forced Migration [In English and Hindi]

15/01/2019

Case Study Report: Lor Peang Community Land Conflict

08/01/2019

SEZs and Value Extraction from the Mekong [BURMESE VERSION]

11/12/2018

Leaflet: Why do we oppose genetically modified mustard? (in Hindi)

04/12/2018

Cambodia: Pheapimex Land Conflict Case Study Report

20/11/2018

Cambodia: Case Study Report on Illegal Fishing in the Tonlé Sap

15/11/2018

Defending Food Sovereignty: Confronting the Challenges of Small Food Providers

20/10/2018

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The Changing Face of Food Retail in India

18/10/2018

The Hindu Counterrevolution: The Violent Recreation of an Imagined Past

29/09/2018

Annual Report 2017

26/09/2018

Repormang Agraryo at Pagbabago: Narratives on Agrarian Conflicts, Transitions, and Transformation

17/09/2018

Focus on the Global South Newsletter Volume 4 Number 4, August 2018

28/08/2018

RCEP: A Secret Deal

26/07/2018

The Reality of the National Economic Backbone

29/06/2018

International Day of Peasants’ Struggles

24/04/2018

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Towards Human Rights-Based Tenure Governance in Asia Perspectives, Challenges, and Strategies

18/04/2018

An Overview of Large-Scale Investment in the Mekong [Khmer language]

27/03/2018

SEZs and Value Extraction from the Mekong [KHMER VERSION]

07/03/2018

On the 45th anniversary of the declaration of Martial Law, young activists in the Philippines urge their fellow Filipinos to fight against the tyrannical rule of Duterte and to defend the democratic rights of the people. 2017 September 21. Quezon City, Philippines.

The Rise of Populist Authoritarianisms in Asia

24/01/2018

Farmers Plight in their Own Words, an illustrated story (Hindi vers.)

23/01/2018

A Vexed Contract! Contract Farming and its Implications on Small Scale Farming in India

22/01/2018

Climate Smart or Corporate Smart Agriculture (in English and Hindi)

22/01/2018

Annual Report 2016

18/11/2017

SEZs and Value Extraction from the Mekong: A Case Study on the Control and Exploitation of Land and Labour in Cambodia and Myanmar’s Special Economic Zones

19/10/2017

Women, Agroecology & Gender Equality

18/09/2017

Trade Liberalization Through Free Trade Agreements (FTAs): Impacts on Agriculture and People in India – Hindi version

18/09/2017

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Trade Liberalization Through Free Trade Agreements (FTAs): Impacts on Agriculture and People in India

18/09/2017

Focus Policy Review – Unpacking Dutertism: What to Make of President Duterte’s Year One

06/09/2017

Focus on the Global South Newsletter Special Edition on the RCEP

30/05/2017

[KHMER LANGUAGE] The “Engine of Economic Growth”: An Overview of Private Investment Policies, Trends, and Projects in Cambodia

19/05/2017

Focus on the Global South Newsletter: Special Edition on the [email protected]

05/05/2017

Why Workers Must Reject RCEP

30/04/2017

An Overview of Large-Scale Investments in the Mekong Region

03/04/2017

Rural Producers Collectives in India – Hindi Version

17/01/2017

Rural Producers Collectives in India

17/01/2017

The Hidden Costs of RCEP and Corporate Trade Deals in Asia

08/12/2016

The Philippine Experience: Climate Change, Disaster Capitalism, and Food Insecurity

07/10/2016

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Civil Society Synthesis Report on use and implementation of the Tenure Guidelines

06/10/2016

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Trade Liberalization and WTO: Impacts on Agriculture and Farmers (Hindi Version)

08/08/2016

Newsletter Volume 3 Number 4, August 2016

03/08/2016

Trade Liberalization and WTO: Impacts on Agriculture and Farmers

01/08/2016

Annual Report 2015

10/07/2016

Humanity and Nature: Traditional, Cultural, and Alternative Perspectives

06/06/2016

The “Engine of Economic Growth”: An Overview of Private Investment Policies, Trends, and Projects in Cambodia

27/05/2016

Signing Away Sovereignty: How Investment Agreements Threaten Regulation of the Mining Industry in the Philippines

23/05/2016

Climate Change and the Agriculture Crisis: Agroecology as a Solution (Hindi version)

11/01/2016

Right to Food: Proceedings of the Meeting between UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food Hilal Elver and Philippine Civil Society Organizations

10/12/2015

Focus on the Global South Newsletter Volume 2 Number 3, December 2015

05/12/2015

The Road Through Paris Newspaper

20/11/2015

Focus Policy Review: Understanding Land Grabbing, Land Rights in the 21st Century

28/08/2015

Climate Change and the Agriculture Crisis: Agroecology as a Solution

27/08/2015

Annual Report 2014

17/07/2015

Handbook On Agroecology: Farmer’s Manual on Sustainable Practices (Hindi Version)

15/06/2015

Making Agroecology Viable for Small Farmers: Experiences From the Field (Hindi version)

15/06/2015

Handbook On Agroecology: Farmer’s Manual on Sustainable Practices

09/04/2015

Making Agroecology Viable for Small Farmers: Experiences from the Field

09/02/2015

Access Delayed = Access Denied: Trade and Struggles for Access to Medicines

25/12/2014

State of Fragmentation: The Philippines in Transition

19/11/2014

Keeping Land Local: Briefing Papers on Land Struggles, No. 3

23/10/2014

China Rising: A New World Order, Or an Old Order Renewed?

17/09/2014

Focus on the Global South Contributes to TNI’s “Shifting Power” Reader

05/09/2014

Focus on the Global South 2013 Annual Report

15/05/2014

Economy for Life in Our Earth Community

24/04/2014

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Where Have All the Small Farmers Gone? The Story of Agriculture and Indian Farmers

08/04/2014

Tubig Natin! – Our Water! An Illustrated Publication in Filipino

01/04/2014

Agricultural Investments in Southeast Asia: Legal tools for public accountability – Lessons from a workshop

23/02/2014

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Report: The WTO Bali Ministerial and the Doha Development Agenda: Assessing the Gains and Losses

13/02/2014

Moving Forward: Study on the Impacts of the Implementation of Order 01BB in Selected Communities in Rural Cambodia

16/01/2014

Annual Report 2013

10/01/2014

Derailers’ Guide to the WTO and Free Trade Regime 2.0

01/12/2013

Rethinking Regionalisms in Times of Crises

10/10/2013

Publication: Learning from Our Roots

17/09/2013

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The State of Agrarian Reform Under President Benigno Aquino III’s Government

11/06/2013

Annual Report 2012

17/05/2013

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Report: Conference on Water Privatization: Learning from India and International Experiences

13/05/2013

Briefing Paper: The Chinese North-South Railway Project

05/03/2013

Focus Policy Review: Whose Growth? Whose Democracy?

29/01/2013

Focus on the Global South Position Paper on Climate Change

25/11/2012

Occasional Paper 12: Lessons of Transparency from EITI

24/08/2012

Precedent-Setting Insurance for REDD Project in Cambodia Raises Concerns

20/06/2012

Whose “Clean” Development? Communities Speak Out

18/06/2012

Governing climate finance: Critical perspectives from Africa, Asia and Latin America

24/05/2012

Focus on the Global South Vision and Programme 2012-2014

11/04/2012

Treading Troubled Waters

12/03/2012

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Of Water Justice and Democracy: Alternatives to Commercialization and Privatization of Water in Asia

11/03/2012

Annual Report 2011

10/01/2012

Overseas Aid and Agrarian Reform in the Philippines: Working Papers Series

02/12/2011

Defending the Commons, Territories and the Right to Food and Water LRAN Briefing Paper Series no. 2

16/10/2011

Food, Livelihoods & Climate Change in the Mekong Region: Summary Report of International Workshop

27/09/2011

Unconventional Warfare: Are US Special Forces Engaged in an ‘Offensive War’ in the Philippines?

16/09/2011

Occasional Paper 10: Feminist Economics of Trade: Reflections on the Indian Manufacturing Sector

16/08/2011

Occasional Paper 11 (10b): Agrofuels – A boost of energy for the Mekong region?

28/07/2011

[Report] REDD in South East Asia: a Political Economy Perspective

21/06/2011

The Case of the 11 Trafficked OFWs in Los Angeles

28/05/2011

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Transitions: Focus on the Philippines 2010 Year Book

11/05/2011

Rights of Mother Earth: Revitalizing Natural Resource Struggle in Asia

11/05/2011

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The challenge of Free Trade Agreements in Asia : A roundtable discussion summary report, New Delhi, 3 March 2011

04/04/2011

Occasional Paper 9: Tale of Two Economies

27/02/2011

Annual Report 2010

10/01/2011

Occasional paper 8 : Economic Liberalisation and Gender Dynamics in Traditional Small-Scale Fisheries: Reflections on the proposed EU-India Free Trade Agreement

28/10/2010

Rising Military Expenditure in Asia

15/07/2010

Focus on the Global South Reveals Farewell Present to Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

05/07/2010

The Clean Development Mechanism Projects in the Philippines: Costly, Dirty, Money-Making Schemes

25/06/2010

Entry of Corporate Retail: Impacts on Hawkers & Small Retailers A case study from Mumbai

10/06/2010

Extreme weather events : Focus on the Philippines 2009 yearbook

10/02/2010

Annual Report 2009

10/01/2010

Occasional Paper 7: Carbon Offsets & Climate Finance in India

17/12/2009

Occasional Paper 7: World Bank & Asian Development Bank: Carbon Trading and Climate Finance in India

17/12/2009

Occasional papers 6 : climate change and China : technology, market and beyond

06/06/2009

Occasional paper 5 : background paper : investment liberalization in the EU-ASEAN FTA

16/03/2009

‘Crisis and Change’ Focus on the Philippines 2008 Yearbook

10/03/2009

Occasional Paper 4: BUSINESS AS USUAL: Responses within ASEAN to the Food Crisis

20/01/2009

New power politics in Asia : briefing note on the Shanghai Cooperation Organzation

28/08/2008

China’s New Role in Africa and the South: A search for a new perspective

25/02/2008

Water democracy: Reclaiming public water in Asia

28/12/2007

Annual Report 2006

11/12/2007

At the door to all the East

22/11/2007

Land Struggles: LRAN Briefing Paper 1

22/10/2007

Occassional Paper 2: Contract Farming in Thailand: A view from the farm

12/06/2007

Unconventional Warfare: Are US Special Forces Engaged in an ‘Offensive War’ in the Philippines?

12/01/2007

Revisiting Southeast Asian Regionalism

03/01/2007

LEBANON: AGGRESSION AND RESISTANCE

27/11/2006

Occasional Paper 3: ALBA Venezuela’s answer to “free trade”: the Bolivarian alternative for the Americas

23/11/2006

Resisting Corporate India

22/11/2006

WHY WE MUST GET THE WTO OUT OF AGRICULTURE: New book by Peter Rosset

21/10/2006

Triennial Report 2003-2005

10/08/2006

Occasional Paper 1: Globalisation and Change in Southern Laos

28/03/2006

Destroy and Profit: Wars, Disasters and Corporations

24/01/2006

Annual Report 2004

10/05/2005

The ADB and policy (mis) governance in Asia

04/05/2005

Silent War: The US’ Economic and Ideological Occupation of Iraq

03/03/2005

Dilemmas of Domination: The unmaking of the American Empire

18/02/2005

Holding Corporations Accountable

06/01/2005

The Struggle for Land: A summary of discussions and Strategies at the Asia Land Meeting

18/11/2004

Anti-Development State: The Political Economy of Permanent Crisis in the Philippines

06/09/2004

Annual Report 2003

10/05/2004

Anti Poverty or Anti Poor?:The Millennium Development Goals and the eradication of extreme poverty a

26/10/2003

Behind the Scenes at the WTO: the Real World of International Trade Negotiations.

06/09/2003

Annual Report 2002

10/05/2003

Power Politics in the WTO

25/01/2003

Never Again: Cartoons on the Gujarat Carnage

06/12/2002

Too Hot to Handle

30/05/2002

Good governance or Bad management

30/05/2002

Annual Report 2001

11/05/2002

Profiting from poverty: The ADB, private sector and development in Asia

09/05/2002

Annual Report 2000

10/05/2001

Profiting from poverty: The ADB, private sector and development in Asia

06/05/2001

The Future in the Balance: Essays on Globalization and Resistance

06/05/2001

Prague 2000: Why we need to decommission the IMF and the World Bank

11/12/2000

Global Finance: New Thinking on Regulating Speculative Capital Markets

06/11/2000

The Transfer of Wealth:Debt and the making of a Global South

25/10/2000

The Asian financial Crisis and Filipino Households: Impact on Women and Children

06/10/2000

Prague 2000: Why we need to decommission the IMF and the World Bank

06/09/2000

Melting the Iceberg: Ending the Cold War in the Korean Peninsula & the search for Global Peace

09/08/2000

Creating Poverty: The ADB in Asia

28/05/2000

Annual Report 1999

10/05/2000

Why Reform of the WTO is the Wrong Agenda

21/02/2000

A Siamese Tragedy: Development and Disintegration in Modern Thailand

09/09/1998

Challenging the mainstream: APEC and the Asia-Pacific Development Debate

09/10/1995

Dark Victory: The United States, Structural Adjustment and Global Poverty

09/09/1994

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Dragons In Distress: Asia’s Miracle Economies in Crisis

09/09/1992

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