25 Years, 7 Films, 1 Nation: EDSAngangdaan: The EDSA Film Festival
from Manila BulletinMANILA, Philippines — Some 25 years since the EDSA Revolution, a new...
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Civil Society Workshop on Carbon Markets in South East Asia
We invite civil society representatives from the South East Asian region to a workshop on the...
Read MoreWhy Al-Qaeda Won
By Walden Bello (originally published in Foreign Policy in Focus)With the tenth anniversary of the crime that was 9/11, the question inevitably crops up: who won, the United States or al-Qaeda? According to the politically...
Read MoreScoring Political Points, But Lacking Political Will: Statement of the Right to Know. Right Now! Coalition
ON 20 SEPTEMBER 2011 in New York, President Benigno S. Aquino III will deliver his keynote remarks at the Open Government Partnership (OGP) conference titled “The Power of Open: A Global Discussion”. The conference brings...
Read MoreMarching for Land, Dignity and the proceso de cambio
Kirsten Francescone*August 15 2011 marked yet another historic event in Bolivia’s long and rich history of struggle. At nine in the morning, after a support rally from their allies, the Confederacion de Pueblos Indígenas de...
Read MoreResponsible Agricultural Investments: Rationalizing Land Grabbing
Joseph Purugganan*Since January 2010, global institutions like the World Bank, the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the United Nations Conference on Trade and...
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“Deglobalization”: French Credit Focus on the Global South Founder with Concept at Heart of French Electoral Debate: Is France on Course to Bid Adieu to Globalization?
Démondialisation is a top issue in French presidential campaign with few rising to globalization’s...
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A dark cloud on the anniversary of the bases’ rejection: WikiLeaks Confirms Focus on the Global South Report on US Military Involvement in Combat
Today, September 16, 2011, the anti-US Bases movement in the Philippines commemorates the 20th...
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FOI and the draft Philippine Action Plan for OGP: An Open Letter to President Benigno S. Aquino III
13 September 2011His ExcellencyBENIGNO S. AQUINO IIIPresident of the PhilippinesMalacañan...
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The Deadline Nears: Can Government Implement CARPER?
The “biggest challenge” to finally accomplishing agrarian reform, more than 20 years after the...
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“The Deadline Nears: Can Government Implement CARPER?”
Launch of Focus on the Global South-Philippines’ Policy Review issue on CARPER35 or 3; 1.5; 1.1;...
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Weathering the Storms: land use and climate change
Shalmali Guttal, Focus on the Global South. April 2011*Climate change and the climate crisis...
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Global Land Grabs: Investments, risks and dangerous legacies
LAND RESEARCH ACTION NETWORK“The issuing of land concessions and leases for tree plantations over...
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The (Non)Citizens of Komtar
by Aya Fabros Kompleks Tun Abdul Razak (KOMTAR), in Penang, Malaysia, is a run down shopping...
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Intl group gives ‘EDSA Mo, EDSA Ko’ video grants
Focus on the Global South-Philippines, an international, non-governmental organization, held...
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