Meet the Filipino Socialists Challenging Rodrigo Duterte’s Right-Wing Rule
by Walden Bello Six years ago, I made the only recorded resignation on a question of...
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Author: Anisa
Reports of IGWG on TNCs & Intersessional Meeting on 2030 Agenda & HC/SG Thematic Reports and Item:3 General Debate - 29th meeting, 49th Regular Session of Human Rights Council. Source: media.un.org
Open Letter to the Chair of the Open-ended Intergovernmental Working Group on TNCs and Human Rights
Subject: Concerns after the presentation of the report of the 7th session of the OEIGWG by the...
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Position Paper of the Global Campaign on Due Diligence in Human Rights
GLOBAL CAMPAIGN The Global Campaign considers that human rights due diligence is a preventive...
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Press conference on 15 March: No to Nature Based Solutions!
As corporations and governments push “nature-based solutions” to fight the climate and biodiversity crises, over 360 organisations launch a statement exposing them as “nature based dispossessions” that will cause huge new land grabs and promote harmful practices like monoculture tree plantations and industrial agriculture.
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Statement: Solidarity with women of the world facing multiple crises!
The month of March 2022, widely known as Women’s Month, began under the looming shadow of...
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Trade Justice Pilipinas laments new law that liberalizes foreign investments
Trade Justice Pilipinas has criticized the Duterte administration for prioritizing liberalization...
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Trade Justice Pilipinas to PH Government: Act on Human Rights Concerns, Don’t Attack the Messengers
Last February 17, 2022, the 705-member European Parliament adopted with a vote of 627 votes in...
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EU: Time to Act on Human Rights Situation in the Philippines
Asia-Europe Peoples Forum (AEPF) Statement on the European Parliament’s Urgent Resolution on the...
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Bin Laden and Trump: Two Bookends to America’s Imperial Decline
What we can learn from the 20 years between the 9/11 attacks and the January 6 coup attempt. By...
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Duterte-Dominguez Duo Accelerates Neoliberal Transformation of The Philippine Economy
by Walden Bello* The Duterte administration has the distinction of having passed the most...
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Time is Running Out on RCEP
The Philippine Senate adjourned yesterday without tackling the controversial mega trade &...
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More than 100 activists led by AMA-SANLAKAS and SENTRO staged a protest at the Senate grounds to call on the Senate to reject the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement or RCEP ratified last year by President Duterte. January 31, 2022. photo courtesy of Sanlakas.
Trade Justice Advocates to Senators: Which Side Are You On?
Trade Justice Pilipinas reiterates its call to the Senate to deny concurrence to the...
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Job Opening: Finance and Accounts Officer
Focus on the Global South is currently looking for a Finance and Accounts Officer to join our team...
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Best wishes for a healthy, just, equitable and cooler 2022
As the global pandemic continued unabated into year two, 2021 was in many ways a redux of 2020....
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Book Launch: “Silencing of a Laotian Son – the Life, Work and Enforced Disappearance of Sombath Somphone”
On Tuesday, 14 December 2021, a book launch and discussion of “Silencing of a Laotian...
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