hosted by Chulalongkorn University Social Research Institute, FTA Watch, and the EU-ASEAN FTA Campaign NetworkBackground:The European Union has changed the method of free trade area negotiation with the countries in South East...
Read Moreby Robin Broad and John Cavanaghoriginally posted on The NationTwenty-nine years ago, at the height of the bloody Marcos dictatorship in the Philippines, then–first lady Imelda Marcos was an honored guest at a piano concert at...
Read MorePRESS STATEMENTFor Immediate Release 7 November 2010Statement of Condemnation of the South Korean Government’s detention and deportation of 6 Filipino Activists Rep. Walden Bello, Akbayan (Citizens Action Party)This...
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6 November 201011:14 P.M. A program officer of Focus on the Global South-Philippines, Joseph...
Read MoreBy Walden BelloThe unexpected death a few days ago of Nestor Kirchner deprived not only Argentina of a remarkable, albeit controversial leader. It also took away an exemplary figure in the Global South when it came to dealing...
Read Moreby NEPOMUCENO MALALUAN and JENINA JOY CHAVEZThe Asean Charter includes as one of the purposes of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the promotion of “a people-oriented Asean in which all sectors of society are...
Read Moreby Walden Bello* Conditional Cash Transfers or CCTs have become the subject of controversy recently, with a marathon debate on it breaking out over it during the budget deliberations at the House of...
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By Focus on the Global South-PhilippinesBangkok – As ASEAN advances towards its goal of...
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by Aditi BhaduriFocus on the Global Southoriginally posted on Frontline-IndiaLISA TARAKI WAS...
Read MoreLink to pdf files at the end of this documentTHE GLOBAL CAMPAIGN FOR AGRARIAN REFORM LAND RESEARCH ACTION NETWORK FIAN International * Focus on the Global South * La Via Campesina Social Network for Justice and Human Rights...
Read MoreWhy hold a conference for Palestine in New Delhi, asks Aditi Bhaduri in her write-up on the recently-concluded ‘A Just Peace for Palestine’ conference in New Delhi. During an interview later with the writer, Achin...
Read MoreAfter the first 100 days, what lies ahead on P’Noy’s ‘straight path’?What can we now expect from a government that promised to be ‘different’; to serve the interests of its ‘boss’—the Filipino people?Focus on the Global South...
Read MorePresentation at the 6th ASEAN People’s Forum, Hanoiby Chanida Chanyapate BamfordFocus on the Global South – September 2010One of the impulses binding ASEAN together effectively has been the need to use its combined size as...
Read MoreBy Walden Bello* (Intervention of the author at the panel on “The World in Crisis and Alternative Pathways,” Asia-Europe People’s Forum, Brussels, Oct. 3, 2010.)Some say that the problem with us progressives as this time of...
Read MoreDebate between leading European and Asian analysts on the decline of European power, the economic rise of China and India, the likelihood of global recession, climate change and proposed alternatives to the current global...
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