Suvo Bosonto: Welcoming Spring with Songs and Dances
by Joseph Purugganan Dhaka, Bangladesh. February 14-17 A delegation from the Asian Music...
Read MorePosted by Joseph Purugganan | Feb 27, 2024 | Alternative Regionalisms, Asia/World, Feature, Social Movements
by Joseph Purugganan Dhaka, Bangladesh. February 14-17 A delegation from the Asian Music...
Read MorePosted by Anisa | Nov 1, 2023 | Asia/World, Climate & Environment, Corporate Accountability, Feature, Food Sovereignty and Agroecology, Power and Democracy
October 2023 has seen staff members from Focus on the Global South taking part in several...
Read MorePosted by Anisa | Oct 30, 2023 | Asia/World, Corporate Accountability, Feature
GENEVA. At the 9th session of negotiations to elaborate a legally binding instrument to regulate...
Read MoreJoseph Purugganan delivered the intervention at the IPEF Fifth Negotiating Round: Bangkok In-Person Stakeholder Listening Session, which was held on Thursday, 14 September 2023 at the Shangri-La Hotel, Bangkok. Photo by: Galileo de Guzman Castillo.
Posted by Anisa | Sep 14, 2023 | Asia/World, Opinion/Analysis, Philippines
by Joseph Purugganan* Thank you for this opportunity to speak at this stakeholder listening...
Read MorePosted by Anisa | Oct 31, 2022 | Asia/World, Corporate Accountability, FOCUS Dispatch, Opinion/Analysis
A Perspective from Asia* By Joseph Purugganan, Focus on the Global South/Asia Task Force a member...
Read MorePosted by Anisa | Oct 10, 2022 | Asia/World, Climate & Environment, Corporate Accountability, Food Sovereignty and Agroecology, Opinion/Analysis
By Joseph Purugganan The Global Food Crisis, this time A dossier by Focus on the Global...
Read MoreMC12 will take place at WTO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland from 12 to 15 June 2022. The conference was due to take place in late 2021 but was postponed due to the outbreak of the Omicron variant of COVID-19. Photo from https://www.wto.org/images/mc12/mc12wtobanner.jpg.
Posted by Anisa | Jun 12, 2022 | Asia/World, Opinion/Analysis, Trade and Investment
by Joseph Purugganan Introduction The 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12) of the WTO will...
Read MorePosted by Joseph Purugganan | Mar 1, 2022 | Asia/World, COVID-19 Updates, Feature, Social Movements, Systemic Alternatives
AMP3’s Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic by Joseph Purugganan A year before the pandemic, the...
Read MorePosted by Joseph Purugganan | May 22, 2021 | Asia/World, Opinion/Analysis, Trade and Investment
Presented at the AEPF13 Plenary Session on Covid-19 and the Broken Economic System. 20 Ma7 2021....
Read MorePosted by Joseph Purugganan | Mar 29, 2021 | Asia/World, Opinion/Analysis, Trade and Investment
By Joseph Purugganan INTRODUCTION Let me also begin by thanking Radhika Desai, and the...
Read MorePosted by admin2 | Nov 4, 2019 | Asia/World, Trade and Investment
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...
Read MoreRachmi 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]
Posted by admin2 | Oct 18, 2019 | Asia/World, Corporate Accountability, Trade and Investment
by Joseph Purugganan How do we ensure corporate accountability in the wake of rising power of...
Read MoreTrade justice activists demonstrate their opposition to the RCEP trade negotiations taking place in Bali, Indonesia on 23-25 Febeurary 2019.
Posted by admin2 | Feb 25, 2019 | Asia/World, Trade and Investment
[Note: The following is the slightly edited text of an intervention made during Stakeholder...
Read MorePosted by yasmin | Jul 25, 2018 | Asia/World, Trade and Investment
[Intervention at the RCEP Stakeholder Engagement during the 23rd Round of RCEP negotiations in...
Read MorePosted by yasmin | Apr 9, 2018 | Asia/World, Opinion/Analysis
By Joseph Purugganan Presentation delivered at the Regional Consultation, Training, and Meeting of...
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