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Repormang Agraryo at Pagbabago: Narratives on Agrarian Conflicts, Transitions, and Transformation

Posted by admin | Sep 17, 2018 | Philippines, Publications, The Commons

Focus is pleased to release online its newest publication Repormang Agraryo at Pagbabago?...

Data Gathering and Information in ‘Post-truth’ Era

Posted by yasmin | Jul 2, 2018 | Philippines, Power and Democracy

Manila—A research project team from the top universities in the Philippines launched last week of...

Philippines Chief Justice’s Ouster Emboldens Impunity

Posted by yasmin | May 15, 2018 | Philippines, Power and Democracy, Statement

Laws and policies have not always been on the side of the people. For the basic masses—workers,...

Focus Policy Review – Unpacking Dutertism: What to Make of President Duterte’s Year One

Posted by admin | Sep 6, 2017 | Philippines, Power and Democracy, Publications

Dutertism. Dutertismo. The suffix ‘ism’ according to the dictionary may refer to a “distinctive...

War on Drugs: “Punishing the Poor”

Posted by admin | Sep 6, 2017 | Philippines, Power and Democracy

by Clarissa Militante About the cover photo: Rodrigo Duterte’s flagship domestic policy, The War...

Martial Law Then and Now; Collective Memory-Making as Urgent Task*

Posted by cvmilitante | Jun 5, 2017 | Philippines, Power and Democracy

The imposition of Martial Law in Mindanao carries with it the probability of Martial Law being...

Why March 8, 2017 was Extra Significant for Philippine Women

Posted by cvmilitante | Mar 8, 2017 | End Impunity, Philippines, Power and Democracy, Women

Manila — For Philippine women’s organizations, the 2017 commemoration of International...

The Philippine Experience: Climate Change, Disaster Capitalism, and Food Insecurity

Posted by admin | Oct 7, 2016 | Climate & Environment, Food Sovereignty and Agroecology, Publications

Super typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan has been a wake up call to Filipinos and the bigger global community...

Welcoming Pres. Duterte to the Old Boys’ Club*

Posted by cvmilitante | Sep 7, 2016 | Philippines, Power and Democracy

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is in Vientiane, Laos, September 6 – 8, for his first...

Impunity: Legal, Social/Political, Personal

Posted by admin | Aug 1, 2016 | End Impunity, Power and Democracy

By Clarissa V. MilitanteImpunity has been de ned by the international legal community, including the United Nations and the International Criminal Court, as being ‘exempt from punishment’, and thus the implication is that...

#RiceNotBullets: Denial of food and Shooting of Farmers are Both Forms of Violence, Human Rights Violations

Posted by admin | Apr 5, 2016 | Climate & Environment, Food Sovereignty and Agroecology, Philippines, Statement

Some six thousand farmers*, including Lumads, from North Cotabato and their families marched to...

State of Fragmentation: The Philippines in Transition

Posted by admin | Nov 19, 2014 | Asia/World, Publications

We’re pleased to announce the release of State of Fragmentation: The Philippines in...

Remembering Macli-ing Dulag

Posted by admin | Apr 24, 2014 | Philippines, Power and Democracy

By Clarissa V. Militante, 24 May 2014 More than 30 years after soldiers under the Marcos regime...

Preventing Disaster Capitalism: Why it’s Not Too Early to Ask for Government’s Rehab Plan

Posted by admin | Jan 7, 2014 | Asia/World, Philippines

By Clarissa V. MilitanteI shudder at the word ‘czar’, a very powerful person or someone imbued...

Stronger Asia — global social movements solidarity, critical in these times of crisis

Posted by admin | Feb 1, 2013 | Asia/World, Social Movements

With the “US pivot” in Asia-Pacific, a divided Asean vis-à-vis the territorial disputes on...

Focus Policy Review: Whose Growth? Whose Democracy?

Posted by admin | Jan 29, 2013 | Laos, Power and Democracy, Publications, Trade and Investment

Contents: Whose growth? Whose democracy? by Clarissa Militante Voices from the countryside:Farmers...

Disempowering Women through the Green Economy

Posted by admin | Jun 4, 2012 | Opinion/Analysis, Women

by Clarissa Militante“The Future We Want,” the text being discussed by governments for Rio+20, promotes rhetoric of empowering women but in reality, it not only disempowers them further, it also gives more rights and access...

Women must stand against militarism

Posted by admin | Mar 7, 2012 | Philippines, Power and Democracy, Women

by Clarissa MilitanteA few weeks ago, women in Pakistan whose husbands or relatives had gone missing blamed the US w’ar against terror’ for the enforced disappearances of loved ones.The phenomenon felt so close to the...