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PRESS RELEASE: Workers are not Virus-Proof

Posted by admin | May 7, 2020 | Corporate Accountability, COVID-19 Updates, Philippines, Statement, Trade and Investment

Advocacy groups call for expanded massive testing before economic restart As the nation...

Corona: A View from Below

Posted by admin | Apr 21, 2020 | COVID-19 Updates

By Fabio Braun Carrasco* 15 April 2020 The novel Corona virus, also known as SARS-CoV-2, has...

Martin Khor: The Making of a Global Activist

Posted by admin | Apr 7, 2020 | Asia/World, Deglobalisation

The late Martin Khor united activists, officials, and thought leaders against trade and climate...

Coronavirus and the Death of ‘Connectivity’

Posted by admin | Mar 27, 2020 | Deglobalisation

By Walden Bello Originally posted on Foreign Policy in Focus The Great Recession could have killed...

Invisible Women and Delhi Riots: Notes from a Relief Camp

Posted by admin | Mar 13, 2020 | India

India’s capital Delhi witnessed its worst riots in more than three decades in the week beginning...

China’s Global Expansion: A Balance Sheet

Posted by admin | Dec 23, 2019 | Cambodia, China, Deglobalisation

Presentation at “China in Cambodia Dialogue,” Phnom Penh, Dec 18 and 19, 2019 By Walden Bello* I...

Democracy and Charisma: A Dangerous Liaison

Posted by admin | Dec 20, 2019 | End Impunity, India, Philippines, Power and Democracy

Democracy in the Era of Charismatic Politics in India and the Philippines Talk delivered to...

Social Movements: Resisting, Defending the Rights of Peoples and the Planet, Reinventing the World

Posted by admin | Jun 1, 2019 | Asia/World, Systemic Alternatives

originally posted on the Systemic Alternatives website [Español, Français] An important symposium...

The EU Dilemma: Trade and Human Rights under Duterte

Posted 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...

Save the Mekong Statement on the Collapse of the Xe Pian – Xe Nam Noy Hydropower Project

Posted by admin | Jul 27, 2018 | Laos, Mekong Region, Statement, The Commons

Save the Mekong, a coalition of non-government organizations, community-based groups and concerned...

Access to Justice

Posted by admin | Apr 14, 2018 | Asia/World, The Commons

Peasants march to commemorate 20 years since the Eldorado dos Carajas massacre. Photo by Shalmali...

Rights of peasant women and other women working in rural areas

Posted by admin | Apr 14, 2018 | Asia/World, The Commons, Women

States shall take all appropriate measures to eliminate all forms of discrimination against...

Unprecedented Long March of Peasants in Maharashtra

Posted by admin | Apr 13, 2018 | India, The Commons

India – 12th March 2018 will be remembered as red-letter day in the history of farmers’...

Infographic: The UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and other People Working in Rural Areas

Posted by admin | Apr 12, 2018 | Asia/World, Posters and Infographics, The Commons

“International human rights law lays down obligations which States are bound to respect. By becoming parties to international treaties, States assume obligations and duties under international law to respect, to protect and to...

A Tribute to Local Food Systems

Posted by admin | Oct 15, 2017 | Food Sovereignty and Agroecology, Photo, The Commons, Women

According to data compiled by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), enough food is produced...

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