Joseph 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.
by Joseph Purugganan* Thank you for this opportunity to speak at this stakeholder listening...
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Joseph Purugganan speaking at the Roundtable discussion Reality vs Expectation: BBM’s 2023 SONA.
By Joseph Purugganan [1] It is important to start by looking at a way to frame the relationship...
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Caption: Members of iDefend presenting key issues and recommendations at a CSO side event during the 4th cycle of UPR if the Philippines. 10 November 2022. Geneva. Photo by Neca Reyes of Lilak.
By Joseph Purugganan, Focus on the Global South* As Social Justice and human rights activists we...
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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.
By Joseph Purugganan The Global Food Crisis, this time A dossier by Focus on the Global...
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First State of the Nation Address of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr., 25 July 2022. Photo from the Office of the Press Secretary
Reflections on Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s First State of the Nation Address (SONA) 2022 July 28 ...
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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.
by Joseph Purugganan Introduction The 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12) of the WTO will...
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By Joseph Purugganan In his final labor day address to workers, outgoing Philippine...
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Presented at the AEPF13 Plenary Session on Covid-19 and the Broken Economic System. 20 Ma7 2021....
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By Joseph Purugganan INTRODUCTION Let me also begin by thanking Radhika Desai, and the...
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Where will the 2019 elections take us? A side street near a slum area in Quezon City is lined with election posters. April 2019. Photo by Joseph Purugganan
Joseph Purugganan From his pulpit at the State of the Nation Address (SONA) in...
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Rising food prices was a main driver of inflation in 2018. Government responded by opening up the rice market to more imports. March 2019. Photo by Joseph Purugganan.
By Joseph Purugganan Chaos has been the brand of the Duterte presidency. His governance has been...
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By Joseph Purugganan Presentation delivered at the Regional Consultation, Training, and Meeting of...
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By Joseph Purugganan
30 protestors, most of them Filipinos, entered the Philippine Embassy in Bangkok on Thursday, March. 2, to demand the lifting of the State of National Emergency decree (Presidential Proclamation 1017).
In a meeting with Ambassador Antonio Rodriguez, the protesters also urged the Philippine envoy and Embassy staff “to join us in demanding that [Gloria Macapagal Arroyo] vacate the presidency as soon as possible. “We ask you and your staff,” the letter continued, “to uphold the integrity of the foreign service and declare your loyalty to the Republic instead of a person who has usurped power through illegal means.”
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By Jenina Joy Chavez, Mary Ann Manahan and Joseph Purugganan*The Philippines government has responded to the recent Social Weather Stations report of rising hunger with promises of food coupons. While admitting that the plan is...
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