Vignettes from the World Social Forum 2024 in Nepal: Peoples’ Power and Solidarities for a Just and Fair Future
“Another World is Possible!” “Another World NOW!” The 16th World Social Forum (WSF) was held in...
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Author: Focus on the Global South Team
CLIMATE BREAKDOWN AND THE FAILURE OF MULTILATERALISM
End of year statement from Focus on the Global South December 2022 Extreme weather events in 2022...
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THE CHANGING FACE OF ELECTIONS: REFLECTIONS FROM THE REGION
by Anusha LallWith contributions from Focus on the Global South – Power and Democracy Team...
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First State of the Nation Address of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr., 25 July 2022. Photo from the Office of the Press Secretary
A (PRO) BUSINESS-AS-USUAL ROAD AHEAD
Reflections on Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s First State of the Nation Address (SONA) 2022 July 28 ...
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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
Civil society demand Laos government reveal Sombath’s fate
Laos: After eight years, civil society worldwide demands the government establish and reveal...
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Soren Ambrose at Focus on the Global South's 20th anniversary event in 2015.
On the passing of our comrade Soren Ambrose
Focus on the Global South joins friends and civil society from across the world in paying homage...
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RCEP an unjust deal and added burden in the time of a pandemic
Trade Justice Pilipinas statement on the signing of the Regional Comprehensive Economic...
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Thai police use water cannons to disperse pro-democracy demonstrations in Bangkok on 16 October 2020. Photo: Sirikan Charoensiri
Thai government must end crackdowns on pro-democracy activists
Focus on the Global South calls on the Thai government to release all detained activists and lift...
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Thousands protested against Martial Law in Pepe Diokno Freedom Park, Quezon City, on September 21, 2020. Photo: PhilRights
Collective struggle, collective strength
By Galileo de Guzman Castillo, Joseph Purugganan, and Bianca Martinez As we commemorate today the...
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Cambodian farmer and land rights activist Oum Samorl. Photo: Ridan Sun
Our disease is landlessness
Cambodian farmer Oum Samorl and her family lost their farm to a corporate land grab 15 years ago....
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An audience member asks a question at the report launch event in Phnom Penh on September 3, 2020.
New report surveys COVID impact on vulnerable Cambodians
More than 150 attendees gathered in Phnom Penh yesterday for the release of a new report titled...
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The Global Campaign attends the 5th Session of the OEIGWG negotiations on the Legally Binding Treaty on TNCS and Human Rights in Geneva in October 2019.
Global Campaign: TNC human rights treaty has ‘lost its soul’
The member organisations of the Global Campaign to Reclaim People’s Sovereignty, Dismantle...
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Indigenous self-determination: a blueprint for the ‘good life’
In an age of global warming, rising authoritarianism, and the corporate-led delusion of infinite...
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Thousands of individuals from various groups join #SONAgkaisa while ensuring physical distancing to express dismay over the Duterte administration at University Avenue, University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City on 5th State of the Nation Address of President Rodrigo Duterte. Photo by: Arrem Alcaraz, Kodao — with Wacphilippines Cavite.
THE MORIBUND DUTERTE PRESIDENCY
Focus on the Global South’s Post-SONA 2020 Assessment 2020 August 7 In the middle of the COVID-19...
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RESIST TERROR LAW!
Focus on the Global South’s Statement on the passage of the Anti-Terrorism Law in the...
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