Category: Asia/World
Celebrating 30 Years of Focus on the Global South: Demanding Climate Justice, Expanding the Commons and Public Economy, and Promoting Real Security
When Focus was founded 30 years ago in 1995, it was up against the confident assertion of global...
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2024: the year crises got worse, but can things get better?
December 30 2024 Focus on the Global South Two thousand and twenty-four was marked by three...
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EVEN AS THE MULTIPLE CRISIS DEEPENS IN ASIA, SOCIAL MOVEMENTS ADVANCE THE STRUGGLE FOR ALTERNATIVES
Focus on the Global South December 2024 The so-called ‘Asian century’ is a veritable jumble...
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Jess Santiago plays one of his songs at a gathering of artists-activists in Dhaka, Bangladesh. February 2024. Photo by Joseph Purugganan.
Human Rights Defenders honored for their work to promote and defend human rights
By Joseph Purugganan Originally published here. Written for Amplifying Human Rights Through Music:...
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Filmmaker JL Burgos and his mother Edita Burgos protesting the X-rating given by the Movies and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) to their film Alipato at Muog, a documentary on the search for missing activist Jonas Burgos. Photo by Chantal Eco.
Culture amidst Conflict
By Joseph Purugganan Originally published here. Written for Amplifying Human Rights Through Music:...
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Advancing Human Rights, Economic Justice, and Participatory Democracy: A Call to Action
2024 December 17 Joint Statement on the 76th Anniversary of the UDHR and the 6th Year of the...
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Indian Civil Society Demands a new democratic financialsystem on World Bank/IMF’s 80th Anniversary
This statement was originally published on Working Group on IFIs and can be read here. Watch here...
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Thai for Palestine
As we mark one year of Israel’s latest genocidal war of aggression against Palestine, the...
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SOLIDARITY BEYOND BOUNDARIES. Peoples and movements in Southeast Asia converge in solidarity for Palestine at the Mekong-ASEAN Environmental Week. Bangkok, Thailand. 2024 September 28. Photo by Galileo de Guzman Castillo.
FROM THE MEKONG RIVER TO THE SOUTHEAST ASIAN SEA: FREE FREE PALESTINE!
Bangkok, Thailand 2024 September 28 A week before the world marks one year of Israel’s...
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Panisa “Khun TaTa” Ruengchai from Serii- Palestine
How we can build Palestine solidarity among our region
by Panisa “Khun TaTa” Ruengchai We are from Serii Palestine which is a Thai activist...
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TeduRISE. Valtimore “Bong” Fenis (center) shares his perspectives on the intersectionality of the struggles for indigenous peoples’ rights, self-determination, peace, and development during the Palestine Solidarity Session at the Mekong-ASEAN Environmental Week. Bangkok, Thailand. 2024 September 28. Photo by Galileo de Guzman Castillo.
SOLIDARITY FROM BELOW
By Valtimore “Bong” Fenis* Heard of Palestine genocide? Myanmar military rule? Victims of...
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ENDURING. Originally built in 1915, the Genbaku Dome was the only (skeletal) structure left standing in an area about 160 meters away from the hypocenter of the first atomic bombing in 1945. Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. 2024 August 4.
NOTES FROM THE WORLD CONFERENCE AGAINST ATOMIC AND HYDROGEN BOMBS: Of Steadfast Determination and Unwavering Solidarity
Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan 2024 September 6 Text and photos by Galileo de Guzman...
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