Advancing land rights in Zamboanga
Focus together with Rural Poor Institute for Land and Human Rights Services (RIGHTS) co-organized...
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Event: Focus Policy Review 2019 launch
Focus on the Global South (Focus) will launch its Focus Policy Review 2019, “Critical...
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Observations on the Thai Election 2019
by Supatsak Pobsuk Mixed Member Apportionment System (MMA) MMA, a newly designed electoral system,...
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Indigenous women mark March 8 protesting dam project
Press Release: Indigenous women’s action for Women’s Day “Ang lupa ay ginawa hindi...
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Cambodia: Petition for Solutions to Priority Women’s Issues
[Twelve trade unions, people’s associations and NGOs are mobilizing today March 8 to put...
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No to Rice Trade Liberalization Law, An Anti-Farmer Measure!
We, from various national farmer organizations, civil society groups, and food sovereignty...
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Free Trade is Bad for You (or Most of You at Any Rate)
[The following is the intro speech in the debate between Walden Bello and the chief economist of...
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Protect people’s economic rights to data, RCEP countries urged
by Jai Vipra, IT for Change [We feature this intervention made by IT for Change at the stakeholder...
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Isagani Serrano (second from right) with Focus staff members Dorothy Guerrero, Shalmali Guttal and Nicola Bullard in Paris in 2015. [Photo by J. Purugganan]
Rest In Peace, Gani Serrano
Focus on the Global South joins movements and peoples organizations in the Philippines in mourning...
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RCEP must not undermine farmers’ rights, especially to protect their own plant varieties
RCEP Negotiations Must Not Include Obligation to Join or Implement UPOV Systems and In...
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People’s movements urge countries to stop RCEP negotiations
Denpasar, 25 February 2019. The Coalition of Indonesian Civil Society for Economic Justice...
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Trade justice activists demonstrate their opposition to the RCEP trade negotiations taking place in Bali, Indonesia on 23-25 Febeurary 2019.
RCEP needs to prioritize justice, not balance
[Note: The following is the slightly edited text of an intervention made during Stakeholder...
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Trade Justice Pilipinas calls for withdrawal of EU trade preferences to the Philippines under GSP+
In the wake of worsening human rights situation in the Philippines under the Duterte...
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Small fishers and informal settlers in Manila Bay state their position clearly: YES to a pro-people rehabilitation of the Bay, but NO to Reclamation. 24 January 2019. Quezon City. [Photo by Joseph Purugganan]
Small fishers call for pro-people rehabilitation of Manila Bay
The Duterte administration’s rehabilitation of Manila Bay is set to begin on 27 January but a...
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10 Years of Struggle for Land and Life
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