We are movements and organizations from Asia, waging struggles on various fronts and arenas to defend our rights, resist policies and projects that cause harm and destruction, and to fight for immediate...
Read Moreby Shalmali GuttalREDD (Reducing Deforestation and Forest Degradation) is one of the most deceptive and risky initiatives proposed to mitigate climate change. REDD creates the illusion that by halting forest destruction and...
Read MoreThe United Nations Conference of Sustainable Development (UNCSD), known as Rio+20, will take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 18-21. The Summit is expected to deliver measures to address the multiple crises the world is...
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The Transnational Institute (TNI) invites you to a public talk with Susan...
Read Moreby 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...
Read More31 May 2012 – A letter was delivered today at 13.30 to the Thai Prime, Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, signed by 57 organisations around the world, and 35 individuals, including 11 academics, 2 Members of Parliament and 1...
Read MoreThe Philippines is one of the great labor exporters of the world. Some 10 per cent of its total population and 22 per cent its working age population are now migrant workers in other countries. With remittances...
Read MoreA joint statement by civil society organisations for the UN CSTD meeting on ‘Enhanced Cooperation on Public Policy Issues Pertaining to the Internet’ to take place in Geneva on May 18th, 2012 proposed byFocus...
Read MoreTwenty years after the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1992, the environmental crisis continues to worsen. The unsustainable development model that gained dominance in the...
Read MoreWe strongly protest the refusal of the Belgian Ministry of Interior to allow Dr. Walden Bello entry into Belgium on May 4th. Dr Bello is a co-founder and Board Member of Focus on the Global South, a member of the...
Read More1 May 2012Phuket, Thailand –As the Mekong River Commission (MRC) member countries gather today for the MRC’s Mekong 2 Rio International Conference on Transboundary River Basin Management, the Save the Mekong coalition has...
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Dear Partners/Friends, We are glad to inform you that Focus on the Global South’s new...
Read MoreA call to social movements, frontline communities and campaigning networks, and progressive NGOs, academics and parliamentarians across Asia and Europe: “People’s Solidarity against Poverty and for Sustainable...
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PRESS RELEASE April 25, 2012 The Farmworkers Agrarian Reform Movement in Hacienda Luisita...
Read MoreThe World Bank is playing a leading role in a global land grab, says farmers’ movement and its international allies.(1) The World Bank’s policies for land privatisation and concentration, have paved the way for...
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