Senator Risa Hontiveros interpellating the sponsors of the RCEP concurrence resolution at plenary debates in the Senate. Sen. Hontiveros was the only Senator who voted against Senate concurrence in RCEP. 21 February 2023. Photo from Sen. Hontiveros’ Facebook page.
STATEMENT OF TRADE JUSTICE PILIPINAS ON THE SENATE CONCURRENCE IN RCEP The struggle against trade...
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Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri delivered his sponsorship speech of Senate Resolution concurring in the ratification of RCEP. 15 February 2023. (Photo from Senate PRIB)
17 February 2023 MEDIA ADVISORY FARMERS DECRY RUSH TO RATIFY RCEP; VOW TO CONTINUE FIGHT...
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Global trade in fisheries is highly unequal. While developed countries have amassed large fishing...
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Broad coalition of agriculture stakeholders and trade justice advocates held a pressconference this morning to urge the Senate to reject RCEP! 1 February 2023, Quezon City. Photo by Joseph Purugganan.
Last November 2021, during the 18th Congress, various farmers, fishers, workers, civil society and...
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The first ASEAN Grassroots People’s Assembly (AGPA) was organized in 2012, where it successfully...
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By Isaak Cagampang Heller* Photos from Philippine Human Rights Information Center (PhilRights) and...
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Online Series On Corporate Concentration and Agriculture This dialogue series aims to generate...
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Statement from Trade Justice Pilipinas 13 December 2022 Trade Justice Pilipinas welcomes...
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Lao national and 2005 Magsaysay Award recipient Sombath Somphone stands beside a poster of fellow awardee V. Shanta during a press conference in Manila, Philippines on Monday 29 August 2005. Photo: EPA/ROLEX DELA PENA
Joint Statement Ahead of the 10-year anniversary of the enforced disappearance of Lao civil...
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Press Release from Forum For Trade Justice. New Delhi, 9 December 2022.
Ongoing FTA negotiations will adversely impact farmers, fishers, patients, traders and impinge on...
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Originally published here. 05 December 2022. Rome, Italy. More than enough food is produced today...
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Focus on the Global South, Asia Europe People’s Forum, Embassy of the Netherlands in...
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Riot Police during the APEC Summit in Bangkok, Thailand, 18 November 2022. Photo by สำนักข่าวราษฎร - Ratsadon News.
Bangkok, 18 November 2022 Civil Society Organisations condemn the Thai Government’s violent...
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Fishing communities today are grappling with multiple crises; extreme climate events that have...
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BEHIND THE BRANDS: Food justice and the “Big 10” food and beverage companies. Infographic by Joki Gauthier for Oxfam 2012. Source: 166 Oxfam Briefing Paper, 26 February 2013.
by Shalmali Guttal The Global Food Crisis, this time A dossier by Focus on the Global...
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