(Jakarta, 6 May 2011) Trade and health activists came out with a joint open letter addressed to ASEAN leaders raising concerns over the negative impact of free trade agreements on peoples’ access to medicines and right to...
Read MoreMillions of people in ASEAN countries rely on affordable generic medicines to treat all kinds of diseases including HIV/AIDS, heart disease and cancer. However the future supply of these life-saving medicines is under threat...
Read MoreFocus-Philippines launches its newest publication Transitions/Yearbook 2011 through a forum, One Year after P-Noy’s Election: Where/What are we Transitioning to? Invited speakers: Prof. Roland Simbulan; Dean Rene Ofreneo; Sec....
Read MoreWe, more than 1,300 delegates at the 2011 ASEAN Civil Society Conference/ ASEAN Peoples’ Forum, representing various civil society organizations and , movements of workers from rural and urban sectors as well as migrant sector,...
Read MoreJAKARTA- Trade and health activists came out with a joint open letter addressed to ASEAN leaders raising concerns over the negative impact of free trade agreements on peoples’ access to medicines and right to health. ...
Read MoreMillions of people in ASEAN countries rely on affordable generic medicines to treat all kinds of diseases including HIV/AIDS, heart disease and cancer. However the future supply of these life-saving medicines is under threat...
Read MoreClimate change and its impacts could no longer be viewed as mere environmental concerns. Climate change is now a reality in the daily lives of the people in the ASEAN region, as their livelihoods and means of sustenance, their...
Read MoreSay NO to the principles of “responsible” agro-enterprise investment promoted by the World Bank
State and private investors, from Citadel Capital to Goldman Sachs, are
leasing or buying up tens of millions of hectares of farmlands in Asia,
Africa and Latin America for food and fuel production. This land
grabbing is a serious threat to the food sovereignty of our peoples and
the right to food of our rural communities. In response to this new
wave of land grabbing, the World Bank (WB) is promoting a set of seven
Since its beginning in 2005, Focus on the Global South has been a staunch supporter of the ASEAN Civil Society Conference / ASEAN Peoples’ Forum (ACSC/APF). We see it as one of the many ways peoples can come together to discuss...
Read MoreMEDIA RELEASEFocus on the Global South – PhilippinesApril 29, 2011 Civil Liberties, Alternative Regionalisms, Protection of and Access to Natural Resources, Climate Change, Public Health and Trade Issues Take Center Stage...
Read More17 April 2011Today, on the International Day of Peasant Struggles, prominent farmers, pastoralists, fisherfolk, human rights and research organisations have sharply criticised the World Bank, three UN agencies and governments...
Read MoreFrançais|EspañolOn 18-20 April 2011, a gathering of some 200 farmland investors, government officials and international civil servants will meet at the World Bank headquarters in Washington DC to discuss how to operationalise...
Read MoreParticipants at the International Conference on Global Land Grabbing overwhelmingly found that land grabbing is occurring at a scale and speed as never before, and resulting in widespread displacement and dispossession of...
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