Study investment provisions before an FTA says advocacy group
THE COUNTRY should carefully study investment provisions before entering into foreign trade...
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The New Focus on the Global South: A message from our Chairman of the Board
Dear Friends, As many of you have heard, Focus on the Global South has been going through a transition. Financial realities have forced us to make some difficult decisions, including a significant cut in our staff size. At the...
Read MoreFarmers call on PNoy to complete CARPer and not terminate it, Compels DAR to distribute big landholdings immediately
Manila—Some 100 farmer members of the Save Agrarian Reform Alliance (SARA) yesterday called on President Aquino to fast track implementation of CARPer (Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program Extension with Reforms)...
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Springs of Hope: Defending, Reclaiming and Redefining Public Water
Mary Ann Manahan, Focus on the Global South March 20, 2012 “Privatization is collapsing. We...
Read MoreBuying back the public, 136 euros at a time
Mary Ann Manahan* MARSEILLE, March 19, 2012: “They can do whatever they want with us but that will be over our dead bodies”. That was the uncompromising statement of Alex Kastrinakis, an independent Greek film-maker who...
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Scylla and Charybdis redux: Navigating the perilous straits between suzerainty and nationalism
I arrived in Athens on Kathari Thefthera or “clean Monday” — the first day of the Lenten...
Read MoreGlobal water justice movement call to action for governments on the implementation of the human right to water
Marseille, March 2012As members of the water justice movement gathered in Marseille, France to mobilize against the 6th World Water Forum, we issue this statement which also carries the voices of many from around the world who...
Read MoreUPDATE: Civil society meets with UN special rapporteur, governments outside the World Water Forum
By Brent PattersonOn Monday March 12, the water justice movement met with United Nations special rapporteur Catarina de Alburquerque, as well as eight national governments and the deputy mayor of Paris, outside the...
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Overcoming the challenge to the right to water in Asia
Mary Ann Manahan15 March 2012 Speech delivered during the implementation of the right to...
Read MoreWater Commons, Water Citizenship and Water Security
(The) water crisis is largely our own making. It has resulted not from the natural limitations of the water supply or lack of financing and appropriate technologies, even though these are important factors, but rather from...
Read MoreWomen must stand against militarism
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...
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Focus on the Global South will join thousands of “Water Warriors” at the Alternative World Water Forum
Every three years since 1997, the World Water Council (WWC), a Marseilles-based policy think tank...
Read MorePosition Paper of the EU-Asean FTA Network on the Double Taxation Agreements
signed by the Philippine Government with the governments of Kuwait, Qatar, Sri Lanka and Turkey and submitted to the Senate for RatificationEU-ASEAN FTA CAMPAIGN NETWORK-PHILIPPINES No. 19 Maginhawa Street, UP Village,...
Read MoreBridging the Gap in Water Service Provision in the Philippines: New Roles for Communities
By: Kristine Mae Quiray, Institute for Popular Democracy and Mary Ann Manahan, Focus on the Global South*ContextForty-seven percent of the Philippine population or about seven million households rely...
Read MoreStatements: International Solidarity Mission in support of the anti-APECO movement
Unity Statement of International DelegatesWE, the delegates of the International Solidarity Mission to the Prelature of Infanta, stand with the people of Casiguran who are struggling against the Aurora Pacific Economic Zone and...
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