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Interview with Shalmali Guttal: “Small Scale Food Producers are at the Frontline”

Posted by admin | Jun 30, 2017 | Climate & Environment, Food Sovereignty and Agroecology

originally posted on ileia.org What does the term ‘climate justice’ actually mean? For us at...

Civil Society Interventions on the RCEP

Posted by admin | May 29, 2017 | Philippines, Trade and Investment

In the recent[c1] “RCEP 18th Round of Talks,” members of civil society organizations and...

Asian Peoples Challenge ADB’s Immunity

Posted by admin | May 3, 2017 | Statement, Trade and Investment

April 20, 2017 Preamble Since 1966, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has peddled the illusion that...

Marking ADB’s 50 years, Protest Actions in Over 100 places in India

Posted by admin | May 3, 2017 | India, Trade and Investment

New Delhi—People’s movements and other civil society organizations across India are holding over...

Ending ADB Immunity & Impunity Amidst Lack of Transparency, Shrinking CSO Space & Increasing Oppression

Posted by admin | May 3, 2017 | Trade and Investment

Manila—FOCUS on the Global South led a thematic discussion on lack of transparency, increasing...

In Photos: All-Women Protest during the Opening of the 30th ASEAN Summit

Posted by admin | Apr 28, 2017 | Alternative Regionalisms, Asia/World, Photo, Power and Democracy, Women

An all women protest led by Philwomen on ASEAN was held today in Manila on the opening of the 30th...

What is happening to our forests? Conference report and presentations

Posted by admin | Jan 18, 2017 | Climate & Environment, India, Mekong Region, Philippines, Reports, The Commons

To view presentations click here. From 21-25 November 2016, about 50 people, involved in struggles...

Human Rights Under President Duterte

Posted by admin | Aug 2, 2016 | End Impunity, Philippines, Power and Democracy

By Walden Bello This is an extract from a longer article by Walden Bello titled, “An...

Culture of Impunity in Cambodia: 20 Years, No Justice

Posted by admin | Aug 2, 2016 | Cambodia, End Impunity, Mekong Region, Power and Democracy

By Ros Sokunthy“Last night I heard the Prime Minister said he never heard about community land...

Kashmir, Before and After Burhan Wani

Posted by admin | Aug 2, 2016 | End Impunity, India, Power and Democracy

By Seema Mustafa NEW DELHI: the 22-year old poster boy of militancy in Kashmir Valley Burhan Wani is shot dead by the security forces. His death unleashes a series of protests across the Valley where tension has spiked to...

Impunity Unlimited: Human Rights, Freedom of Expression in Shambles

Posted by admin | Aug 2, 2016 | End Impunity, India, Power and Democracy

By Afsar Jafri and Mansi Sharma In the last few years, the culture of impunity has left bloody patches across the secular democratic fabric of India. Repression of dissent is on the rise and perpetrators are free to lynch...

Struggling on Dangerous Ground

Posted by admin | Aug 2, 2016 | Climate & Environment, End Impunity, Philippines, Power and Democracy

Struggling on Dangerous Ground [i]By Val De Guzman [ii] According to a recent report...

Criminalizing the Struggle for Land: A Tale of Two Farmers

Posted by admin | Aug 1, 2016 | End Impunity, Philippines, Power and Democracy, The Commons

Landowners resorting to “legal harassment” or the act of ling numerous criminal cases to weaken...

Impunity: Legal, Social/Political, Personal

Posted by admin | Aug 1, 2016 | End Impunity, Power and Democracy

By Clarissa V. MilitanteImpunity has been de ned by the international legal community, including the United Nations and the International Criminal Court, as being ‘exempt from punishment’, and thus the implication is that...