10/07/2016
Under: About, Publications
Highlights:
- Marked the 20th anniversary of Focus on the Global South with a two-day International Conference on Peoples’ Struggles and Alternatives – over 120 people attended, representing almost 80 organisations from 20 different countries
- Joined mass mobilisations in Paris
and released our analysis on climate justice to show the importance of social movements in taking action on climate change - Joined the mobilisations in Nairobi during the 10th WTO ministerial to relay civil society demands during international trade negotiations
- Played a central role in the visit of the UN Special Rapporteur on Right to Food visit to the Philippines and published a comprehensive report of her meeting with civil society organisations
- Coordinated the Peoples’ APEC, which was hosted in the Philippines, and provided critique on the APEC agenda
- Co-organised the first ever Agrarian Reform Youth Congress in the Philippines, to cultivate a new generation of agrarian reform activists
- Organised a 10-day farmers’ exchange in India, exposing Bangladeshi farmers and activists to agroecological practices
- Supported land rights activists and communities in Cambodia, helping to secure resolutions in several cases of land conflicts
