Category: Asia/World
UNPACKING RCEP: What Governments are Not Saying about the Mega FTA*
By Joseph Purugganan INTRODUCTION Let me also begin by thanking Radhika Desai, and the...
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A pile of grain in Karnataka, India. Photo: Pixy / Creative Commons
Corporate-Controlled Global Food Supply Chains Must Go
The global food system has been very much front and center in the COVID-19 story. Everyone, of...
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US President Joe Biden. Photo: Eric Haynes
Open Letter to the Biden Administration on the Need for a Pandemic Pivot
It’s urgent not to return to the previous status quo. It’s time for creative thinking and bold...
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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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A historic process continues at the UN: States resume substantive negotiations on the text for a binding treaty on transnational corporations with respect to human rights on 28 October 2020. Photo: Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity
Civil society drives momentum for UN treaty on TNCs and human rights
PRESS RELEASE Despite covid-19 limitations, civil society drives momentum for the historic UN...
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The sixth session of the UN Human Rights Council’s Open-ended Intergovernmental working group (OEIGWG) on Transnational corporations (TNCs) and Other Business Enterprises in Geneva from 26-30 October 2020.
Asian Network pushes stronger TNC regulations at the UN amidst pandemic
Amidst the challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic, the negotiations towards a legally binding...
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Photo: Photo: Kamiel Choi / Pixabay
COVID-19, Distorted Development, and Degrowth
The following paper was presented at the Chulalongkorn University Social Research...
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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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KASAMAS FOR LOVE, FOR PEACE. Heiwa koshin desu! (We are the Peace March!). Kiyosu Castle, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. 2019 June 10. Photo by Hideki “Run” Yokoe.
Peace and Courage in the Time of COVID-19
Solidarity Message from the Global South to the 2020 Japan Peace March[i] By Galileo de Guzman...
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Webinar on COVID-19: Deglobalisation and the opportunity for food sovereignty
COVID-19 has exposed multiple weaknesses and failures of the corporate and finance capital...
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