By Walden Bello The impacts of disasters occurring in other parts of the world, from Libya to Japan, have perhaps been communicated more drastically to the Philippines than to other countries. Whether it is the tragic trilogy of...
Read MoreORGANIZATION: Thai Working Group for Climate Justice (TCJ) & partners and alliancesPertaining to the UNFCCC’s next round of workshops/negotiations to be organized in Bangkok during April 3rd – 8th 2001 (AWG-KP 16 and AWG-LCA...
Read Morefrom EarthtimesBangkok – A group of 263 non-governmental organizations from 51 countries has called on Laos to cancel its proposed hydropower dam project on the Mekong River in Xayaburi province, representatives of the...
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from Outlook India. Twenty-seven years ago, Gopal Dass, a native of Punjab, strayed into Pakistan...
Read More(Statement of Focus on the Global South, March 22, 2011)Focus on the Global South supports the democratic opposition in Libya that seeks to end the 43-year-old dictatorship of Muammar Gaddafi. Focus shares the Libyan...
Read MoreBy Shalmali Guttal and Sofia Monsalve with contributions from Mary Ann Manahan and Rebecca Leonard *When we talk about the climate change crisis, we generally refer to recent and future alterations to the Earth’s climate systems...
Read MoreBy Roxanna Chen and Dorothy-Grace Guerrero* Compared to the bleak, frustrated atmosphere in which the COP15 in Copenhagen ended, the COP16 in Cancun closed with a collective sigh of relief from the parties: “the Cancun Decisions...
Read MoreMr. Purugganan’s letter to the Editor was published by the Jakarta Post; this was in response to the article on the EU-Asean FTA written by Mr. Werner Hoyer, Minister of State of the German Federal Foreign Office. The...
Read MoreBy Walden Bello* The Arab democratic uprisings have brought a rush of nostalgia to many people who staged their own democratic revolutions years earlier. As they watched events unfold in Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Al...
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originally from this siteEvery year some of the world’s most powerful people go to the World...
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Read MoreBy Walden Bello*He was an officer in the Saudi Royal Navy assigned to the strategic Saudi base of Jubail in the Persian Gulf. She was a single mom from Mindanao, in the Philippines, who saw, like so many...
Read MoreBy Jenina Joy ChavezThis paper was delivered by Ms Chavez during the PSAARC Seminar, “Envisioning New South Asia: People’s Perspectives,” in Dhaka, Bangladesh; January 18-19, 2011.Good morning. It is an honor to participate in...
Read MoreHuman right activists and civil society leaders from all eight SAARC countries at a seminar in the city today held soul searching discussions on how to expedite regional integration breaking apart the shackle of elite run...
Read MoreBy Walden Bello* In contrast to their cautiously optimistic forecasts about a sustained recovery at the end of 2009, the dominant mood in liberal economic circles as 2010 draws to a close is gloom, if not doom. ...
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