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...
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Workers, farmers, fishers, indigenous peoples, rural women, and health and trade justice advocates...
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Leaders 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]
India’s difficulty in acceding to the mega regional free trade agreement, RCEP, currently being...
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A rural market in Sagbahal, Odisha. [Photo from Wikimedia Commons]
Data confirms an acute demand crisis in rural India and beyond. by Ranjini Basu [Note: This...
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Rachmi 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]
by Joseph Purugganan How do we ensure corporate accountability in the wake of rising power of...
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Farmers, 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.]
Statement on the World Food Day, 2019 October 15 We are in the midst of a food crisis. This is a...
Read More240 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...
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As governments scramble to save the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement,...
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“The development of this road linkage infrastructure will effectively generate economic and social...
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Police in Kashmir confronting demonstrators in December 2018. Source: Wikimedia Commons
Focus signed on to this joint open letter to Prime Minister Modi on the situation in Jammu &...
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DUTERTE, 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.
Focus on the Global South’s Statement on President Rodrigo Duterte’s midterm State of the Nation...
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by Pavan Kulkarni via People’s Dispatch Farmers’ leaders, civil society activists, academics...
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Rescue workers pull out victims from the rubble [Photo from PDF copy of the statement]
We, as workers, communities, associations, trade unions, civil society organisations and human...
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Photo by Ridan Sun
In 2009, Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) based in Southeast Asia and working closely with local...
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“I will promote a peaceful environment for a unified society based on love, unity and compassion...
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