By Aileen Kwa July 2002Since before Doha, EU and US’ cheerleaders at the WTO have been chanting: ‘Habinson, Harbinson, he’s our man. If he can’t do it, nobody can’. Post-Doha, the chants have only...
Read MoreThe World Trade Organization has often been portrayed as the pinnacle of the multilateral system of global economic governance. Why it has achieved this reputation is puzzling since it is one of the most undemocratic...
Read MoreShalmali Guttal, Focus on the Global South, June 6, 2002 For almost two weeks, government delegates at the Fourth Preparatory Committee Meeting (Prep Com IV) for the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) have been...
Read MoreBy Jenina Joy Chavez Thus began the march of good governance as the most important new pillar in international development discourse, second only to poverty reduction. Governance-related reforms (civil service and judicial...
Read MoreIn this issue of Focus on Trade THE OXFAM DEBATE: FROM CONTROVERSY TO COMMON STRATEGY Walden Bello OXFAM’S RESPONSE TO WALDEN BELLO Angus Cleary MUSHARRAF: THE WEST’S FAVOURITE MILITARY DICTATOR Aasim Sajjad Akhtar...
Read MoreBy Walden Bello (A longer version of this piece was published on AsiaSource.org, the website of the Asia Society in New York, which granted permission to reprint it.) Over eight months after the launching of the global war...
Read MoreBy Nicola Bullard* Ibrahim Assad welcomes us to his stone house in Taybeh, a small village outside Jenin in the West Bank, saying he is as old as Israel. “I was born in 1948 and married in 1973, the year of the Yom Kippur...
Read MoreBy Nicola Bullard* April 15th 2002 Ibrahim Assad welcomes us to his stone house in Taybeh, a small village outside Jenin, saying that he is as old as Israel. “I was born in 1948 and married in 1973, the year of the Yom...
Read MoreBy Neta Golan For the international peace observers currently holed up within Yasser Arafat’s presidential compound – myself among them – it is not Israeli actions but the inaction of the international...
Read MoreBy Aasim Sajjad Akhtar* When General Musharraf came to power over two and a half years ago, most Pakistanis were relieved. The systematic de-politicisation of society that has taken place particularly over the past 25 years, had...
Read MoreBy Sara Grutsky In many townships and rural districts across South Africa and Swaziland, pre-paid water meters have been installed to improve the “efficiency” of fee collection – what is known as “cost...
Read MoreBy Joseph Gerson Paper Presented at Asian Regional Exchange for New Alternatives (ARENA) Roundtable on, “War and peace, despair and hope: Re-Positioning Asian Intellectuals After 9-11” Kowloon, Hong Kong, SAR, May...
Read MoreBy Christophe Aguiton Pure sadness. On the plane from Paris to Tel Aviv last Wednesday, that was the feeling overwhelming me as I thought about the reality of witnessing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at first hand. Personal...
Read MoreMarch 23-26 2002 Organized by Focus on the Global South, the Institute for Popular Democracy and Akbayan Citizens’ Action Party ContextBackground and objectives Delegates Context In the aftermath of the September 11...
Read MoreOpening Statement, Press Conference, March 27, 2002, by Dr. Walden Bello I think that the best way to begin is to repeat what Fr. Cirilo Nacorda said two days ago in Lamitan, Basilan, when he thanked the members of the...
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