Suvo Bosonto: Welcoming Spring with Songs and Dances
by Joseph Purugganan Dhaka, Bangladesh. February 14-17 A delegation from the Asian Music...
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October 2023 Round-up of Participations
October 2023 has seen staff members from Focus on the Global South taking part in several...
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States from the global south and civil society defend process to hold TNCs accountable for human rights violations amid attempt to re-open the debate on the mandate
GENEVA. At the 9th session of negotiations to elaborate a legally binding instrument to regulate...
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Why direct obligations for TNCs and having an International Tribunal are crucial for an effective legally binding treaty
A Perspective from Asia* By Joseph Purugganan, Focus on the Global South/Asia Task Force a member...
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Industrial Machine Near Crops. Photo by Johannes Plenio.
Agribusiness’ Solution to the Food Crisis: More of the Same
By Joseph Purugganan The Global Food Crisis, this time A dossier by Focus on the Global...
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MC12 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.
WTO MC12: What’s at Stake and what lies ahead for people’s resistance
by Joseph Purugganan Introduction The 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12) of the WTO will...
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Sama-Sama:Music Beyond Borders
AMP3’s Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic by Joseph Purugganan A year before the pandemic, the...
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Trade Justice in the Era of Covid
Presented at the AEPF13 Plenary Session on Covid-19 and the Broken Economic System. 20 Ma7 2021....
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UNPACKING RCEP: What Governments are Not Saying about the Mega FTA*
By Joseph Purugganan INTRODUCTION Let me also begin by thanking Radhika Desai, and the...
Read MoreConfronting a Mega Deal: People’s Resistance to RCEP
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...
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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]
Trade & Investment Agreements and Human Rights
by Joseph Purugganan How do we ensure corporate accountability in the wake of rising power of...
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Trade justice activists demonstrate their opposition to the RCEP trade negotiations taking place in Bali, Indonesia on 23-25 Febeurary 2019.
RCEP needs to prioritize justice, not balance
[Note: The following is the slightly edited text of an intervention made during Stakeholder...
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RCEP: Corporate capture on a grand scale
[Intervention at the RCEP Stakeholder Engagement during the 23rd Round of RCEP negotiations in...
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Climate Justice from Below – Newsletter Volume 2 Number 3, December 2015
Here is the latest Focus on the Global South newsletter tackling the most important issues in COP...
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