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 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 | 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 MorePosted 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 MorePosted 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 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 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 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 yasmin | Aug 31, 2017 | Trade and Investment
Presentation at the Dialogue on RCEP Negotiations and their impact on Human Rights and the...
Read MorePosted by admin | May 30, 2017 | Publications, Trade and Investment
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP), a mega-regional free trade...
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 | Trade and Investment
By Cecilia Olivet, Jaybee Garganera, Farah Sevilla and Joseph PuruggananIn the last decade, the...
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