Online Photo ExhibitionSolidarity with those Who Feed the WorldMarking the 2019 International Day of Peasant Struggles by co-celebrating small-scale food providers’ perspectives on food sovereignty and their practices on food...
Read MoreSurichai Wun’Gaeo (Co-Chair) Rotary Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, Thailand Professor Emeritus of Sociology Surichai Wun’gaeo is currently Director at Center for Peace and Conflict Studies, Chulalongkorn...
Read MoreThe culture of impunity, criminalization of dissent, and violence against those who stand up for peace, human rights and justice, and challenge power abuse, are increasing across Asia, with rising numbers of arbitrary arrests...
Read MoreThe Commons encompass access, rights and governance of land, forests, water and other natural, social and economic wealth in South and Southeast Asia. Across the region, local populations in rural and urban areas are...
Read MoreOur work on trade and investment revolves around local, national and international campaigns on free-trade and investment negotiations and agreements. A new wave of free trade agreements and investment treaties are shaping and...
Read MoreWe see Alternative Regionalism as one of the ways to break down hegemonic economic and political control globally, to monitor and seek solutions to the problems of the world for which globalisation has proved to fail to provide...
Read MoreClimate and Environment is now a cross-cutting issue under Focus on the Global South’s 2018-2020 Work Plan, with this issue permeating across the three thematic priorities: Political Economy of Development, Power and...
Read MoreThe Philippines team has been implementing the Focus on Global South regional programme in the Philippines since November 2001, with corporate-led globalization, trade and investments, poverty and social-economic justice, the...
Read MoreEstablished originally in 1997 in Mumbai, Focus on the Global South India, is presently located in New Delhi. Our programme was set up to do policy research in three broad thematic areas: trade and investment, the commons and...
Read MoreAs China continues to play an increasingly important and more powerful role in the global political economy and especially in Asia, the more interest it generates from various sectors. There is now a growing awareness in civil...
Read MoreIn the context of deepening economic, political, social and environmental crises in Asia, grassroots communities and peoples’ movements are at the centre of the fight for development that respects their rights, lives,...
Read MoreAcross Asia, ‘development’ has become synonymous with rapid economic growth, to be achieved through predominantly large-scale, private investments, natural resource extraction and expansion of markets in new...
Read Moreresearcheducationaction Focus combines three main methods in order to build critical analysis, awareness, and actions that lead to progressive change. Monitoring, research and analysis: This includes field research, desk...
Read MoreRevisiting Deglobalisation: a vision for progressive social transformation With political, economic, social, and environmental trends coming to a head, the failures of corporate driven globalisation are finally entering...
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Guided by its overarching three-year workplan, Focus organized, conducted, and implemented its...
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2016
Focus in 2016 initiated and engaged more vigorously in endeavors that challenged the impunity of...
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Highlights: Marked the 20th anniversary of Focus on the Global South with a two-day International...
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