A siamese tragedy : the collapse of democracy in Thailand
The military coup in Thailand a week ago marked the second high profile collapse of a democracy in...
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Month: September 2006
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The Development RoundTable Series:Towards an Alternative Foreign Policy
The ASEAN has traditionally avoided thorny intra-region foreign policy and security issues, and the official agenda outlined by the Philippine government for its year-long chairmanship is no exception. However, as these internal issues-such as human rights violations in Myanmar and southern Thailand, political killings in the Philippines, brutal repression of secessionist movements in Indonesia, and the resurgence of authoritarianism throughout the region-take on an increasingly international import, the rigidity of the ASEAN is becoming more and more apparent, even as the need to resolve these issues become more and more urgent.
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Focus on the Global South’s statement on the coup in Thailand
Focus on the Global South views the recent military takeover of government in Thailand as a most regrettable setback in the country’s democratization process. The rationale for the takeover – that Thai society has become divided...
Read MoreInternational People’s Forum organizers celebrate successful forum and share plans for ways forward
Press Statement by the Organisers of the International Peoples Forum vs IMF-WB Asrama Haji Batam Centre, Batam, Indonesia Today we conclude the International Peoples Forum vs. the IMF and World Bank (IPF), which was convened in...
Read MoreForum slams IMF ‘legitimacy problems’
Andi Haswidi, The Jakarta Post, Batam Only the rich nations that are not affected by IMF policies benefit from the institution’s reforms, a speaker at Batam’s International Peoples Forum said Friday. Walden Bello, a...
Read MoreSingapore government decision : too little too late!
16 September 2006 Batam, Indonesia The organizers of the International People’s Forum (IPF) in Batam, Indonesia boycotting the official events of the Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and...
Read MoreCivil groups threaten to take legal action against Singapore
By Pearl Forss, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 17 September 2006 1537 hrs SINGAPORE : Two of the civil society representatives who were denied entry into Singapore to attend the IMF World Bank meetings arrived here....
Read More2 Via Campesina representatives detained in Singapore
(Jakarta, September 18, 2006) On Sept 17, Achmad Yakub and Irma Yanni of Federasi Serikat Petani Indonesia (FSPI – Federation of Indonesian Peasant Union) flew to Singapore to organize a Via Campesina press conference on...
Read MoreCall for the boycott of World Bank-IMF annual meetings
September 16, 2006We the undersigned representatives from civil society organisations and social movements call for a boycott of the official programme at the World Bank and IMF 2006 annual meetings in Singapore. In order to...
Read MoreStatement on the Ban on Civil Society Organizations Entering Singapore
By Focus on the Global South, Sept. 15, 2006 Focus on the Global South condemns, in the strongest terms possible, actions by the Singapore Government to ban, hold, detain, deport, or harass representatives of civil society...
Read MoreThe Crisis of Multilateralism
Walden Bello | September 13, 2006; Foreign Policy In Focus Already buffeted by institutional crisis and policy conflicts, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank are heading into their fall meeting—scheduled to...
Read MoreMass Boycott by NGOs May Yet Shame WB-IMF
Marwaan Macan-Markar BATAM, Indonesia, Sep 15 (IPS) – Civil society organisations have fired an unprecedented salvo at the World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by declaring a boycott of the annual...
Read MoreThe boycott of the official meetings of the IMF and the World Bank in Singapore grows
Christian Aid on Friday 15 September announced that it is boycotting all official events at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank meetings in Singapore in protest at the government’s ban on civil society...
Read MoreActivists protest against IMF meeting restrictions
irish Examiner.com . 15/09/2006 Hundreds of activists have today gathered on an Indonesian island near Singapore ahead of the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Singapore has banned...
Read MoreThe common good
"Among the 28 banned is Walden Bello, a 60-year-old Filipino who heads an NGO called the Focus on the Global South. His 'crimes' according to the police, were to break into the World Bank headquarters to steal...
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