Job post: Regional Program Coordinator
Focus on the Global South (Focus) is currently seeking to fill the position of Regional Program...
Read MorePosted by admin2 | Feb 13, 2020 | Announcement, Asia/World, Jobs
Focus on the Global South (Focus) is currently seeking to fill the position of Regional Program...
Read MorePosted by admin2 | Nov 4, 2019 | Asia/World, Trade and Investment
by Joseph Purugganan Governments are now scrambling to conclude negotiations for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP), the mega free trade and investment deal launched 7 years ago by the ten countries...
Read MorePosted by admin2 | Nov 4, 2019 | Philippines, Trade and Investment
Workers, farmers, fishers, indigenous peoples, rural women, and health and trade justice advocates...
Read MoreLeaders from member countries at the 2nd RCEP Summit in Manila in 2017. Will countries come to an agreement when they meet again in Thailand on 1 November? [Photo from Presidential Communications Operations Office, Philippines via Wikimedia commons]
Posted by admin2 | Oct 30, 2019 | India, Trade and Investment
India’s difficulty in acceding to the mega regional free trade agreement, RCEP, currently being...
Read MoreData confirms an acute demand crisis in rural India and beyond. by Ranjini Basu [Note: This...
Read MoreRachmi of Indonesia for Global Justice speaks at a Climate Justice rally during the 5th session of negotiations for a UN Binding Treaty for Transnational Corporations on Human Rights/ [Photo by Joseph Purugganan]
Posted by admin2 | Oct 18, 2019 | Asia/World, Corporate Accountability, Trade and Investment
by Joseph Purugganan How do we ensure corporate accountability in the wake of rising power of...
Read MoreFarmers, fishers, rural women, indigenous peoples, and civil society organizations come together to organize a press conference that aims to raise the alarm over the severe crisis in food, land, fisheries, livelihoods, and natural resources precipitated by the Duterte administration's neoliberal economic policies. [2019 October 15. Quezon City, Philippines. Photo by Galileo de Guzman Castillo.]
Posted by admin2 | Oct 15, 2019 | Food Sovereignty and Agroecology, Philippines, Statement
Statement on the World Food Day, 2019 October 15 We are in the midst of a food crisis. This is a...
Read MorePosted by admin2 | Sep 27, 2019 | Asia/World, Statement
240 civil society organizations and 40 international networks have called on the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General to end the recently signed UN’s Strategic Partnership Agreement with the World Economic Forum (WEF). The...
Read MorePosted by admin2 | Sep 23, 2019 | Trade and Investment
As governments scramble to save the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement,...
Read MorePosted by admin2 | Aug 27, 2019 | Mekong Region, Thailand, The Commons, Trade and Investment
“The development of this road linkage infrastructure will effectively generate economic and social...
Read MorePosted by admin2 | Aug 13, 2019 | India, Power and Democracy, Statement
Focus signed on to this joint open letter to Prime Minister Modi on the situation in Jammu &...
Read MorePosted by admin2 | Aug 6, 2019 | Asia/World, Blog Post, Peace and Security, Power and Democracy
We publish this final blog post by our colleague Galileo De Guzman Castillo on his participation...
Read MoreDUTERTE, THE SERPENT. His strongman rule ultimately serves the administration’s authoritarian and neoliberal agenda. United Peoples’ SONA. Quezon City, Philippines. 2019 July 22. Photo by Galileo de Guzman Castillo.
Posted by admin2 | Jul 29, 2019 | End Impunity, Philippines, Power and Democracy, Statement
Focus on the Global South’s Statement on President Rodrigo Duterte’s midterm State of the Nation...
Read MorePosted by admin2 | Jul 18, 2019 | Food Sovereignty and Agroecology, India
by Pavan Kulkarni via People’s Dispatch Farmers’ leaders, civil society activists, academics...
Read MorePosted by admin2 | Jul 3, 2019 | Asia/World, Blog Post, Peace and Security, Photo, Power and Democracy
Tuesday and Wednesday, June 11 and 12, 2019 Fuso and Inuyama, Aichi Prefecture and Kakamigahara,...
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