Challenges and Prospects for Social Justice within Government’s economic agenda
By Joseph Purugganan, Focus on the Global South* As Social Justice and human rights activists we...
Read MorePosted by Anisa | Feb 27, 2023 | FOCUS Dispatch, Food Sovereignty and Agroecology, Opinion/Analysis, Philippines, Power and Democracy, Trade and Investment
By Joseph Purugganan, Focus on the Global South* As Social Justice and human rights activists we...
Read MorePosted by admin | Oct 3, 2018 | Philippines, Power and Democracy, Trade and Investment
This paper was presented by Joseph Purugganan at the Asia Europe Peoples Forum in Ghent, Belgium...
Read MorePosted by admin | Sep 6, 2017 | Philippines, Trade and Investment
by Joseph Purugganan When Rodrigo Duterte won the presidency in May 2016, he inherited an economy...
Read MorePosted by admin | May 29, 2017 | Philippines, Trade and Investment
In the recent[c1] “RCEP 18th Round of Talks,” members of civil society organizations and...
Read MorePosted by cvmilitante | May 8, 2017 | Philippines, Trade and Investment
Manila — Representatives of major Philippine trade unions in both the public and private...
Read MorePosted by admin | May 23, 2016 | Philippines, Statement, Trade and Investment
Amsterdam/Manila, May 24 2016 – As the first round of negotiations of a Free Trade Agreement (FTA)...
Read MorePosted by admin | May 22, 2016 | Mekong Region, Philippines, Statement, Trade and Investment
The first round of negotiations for an EU-Philippines Free Trade Agreement will commence next week...
Read MorePosted by admin | May 1, 2016 | Philippines, Statement, Trade and Investment
The EU-ASEAN Network has questioned what it called a ‘mad rush’ to conclude a comprehensive free...
Read MorePosted by admin | Sep 23, 2014 | Philippines, Trade and Investment
In Louella D. Desidero’s article, “Phl to open more bilateral agreements,”...
Read MorePosted by admin | Jun 10, 2013 | Philippines, Trade and Investment
By Joseph Purugganan, Afsar Jafri and Jacques-Chai Chomthongdi Several milestones in the...
Read MorePosted by admin | Feb 24, 2012 | Alternative Regionalisms, Philippines, Trade and Investment
signed by the Philippine Government with the governments of Kuwait, Qatar, Sri Lanka and Turkey and submitted to the Senate for RatificationEU-ASEAN FTA CAMPAIGN NETWORK-PHILIPPINES No. 19 Maginhawa Street, UP Village,...
Read MorePosted by admin | Mar 21, 2011 | Alternative Regionalisms, Deglobalisation, Philippines, Trade and Investment
Mr. Purugganan’s letter to the Editor was published by the Jakarta Post; this was in response to the article on the EU-Asean FTA written by Mr. Werner Hoyer, Minister of State of the German Federal Foreign Office. The...
Read MorePosted by admin | Nov 25, 2010 | Climate & Environment, Deglobalisation, Philippines, Trade and Investment
On 6 November 2010, Focus staff member Mr. Joseph Purugganan traveled to South Korea to attend civil society events parallel to the official Summit of the Group of Twenty (G-20) in Seoul. Despite being granted a valid visa, and...
Read MorePosted by admin | Nov 24, 2009 | Deglobalisation, Philippines, The Commons, Trade and Investment
Presented to the Special Committee on Globalization House of Representatives 18 November 2009 On behalf of the Stop the New Round Coalition (SNR) a network of around 40 national and regional level groups and movements, I would...
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