Category: Trade and Investment
Free Trade is Bad for You (or Most of You at Any R...
Posted by admin2 | Mar 1, 2019 | Asia/World, Deglobalisation, Trade and Investment | 0
Protect people’s economic rights to data, RC...
Posted by admin2 | Feb 28, 2019 | Asia/World, Trade and Investment | 0
RCEP must not undermine farmers’ rights, esp...
Posted by admin2 | Feb 27, 2019 | Asia/World, Food Sovereignty and Agroecology, Philippines, The Commons, Trade and Investment | 0
People’s movements urge countries to stop RCEP neg...
Posted by admin2 | Feb 27, 2019 | Asia/World, Trade and Investment | 0
RCEP needs to prioritize justice, not balance
Posted by admin2 | Feb 25, 2019 | Asia/World, Trade and Investment | 0

Broad coalition of agriculture stakeholders and trade justice advocates held a pressconference this morning to urge the Senate to reject RCEP! 1 February 2023, Quezon City. Photo by Joseph Purugganan.
Joint Statement of Agri stakeholders and Trade Justice Advocates: NO TO RCEP! DON’T MAKE PHL AN “UKAY-UKAY” REPUBLIC!
by Anisa | Feb 2, 2023 | Food Sovereignty and Agroecology, Philippines, Statement, Trade and Investment | 0
Last November 2021, during the 18th Congress, various farmers, fishers, workers, civil society and...
Read MoreReform of GSP: A Matter of Urgent Concern
by Anisa | Dec 13, 2022 | Philippines, Statement, Trade and Investment | 0
Statement from Trade Justice Pilipinas 13 December 2022 Trade Justice Pilipinas welcomes...
Read MoreEU-INDIA FREE TRADE DEAL WILL UNDERMINE INDIA’S DEVELOPMENT
by Anisa | Dec 12, 2022 | India, Media Release, Trade and Investment | 0
Ongoing FTA negotiations will adversely impact farmers, fishers, patients, traders and impinge on...
Read MorePolicy & Livelihood Challenges for India’s Fishing Communities: Implications of the WTO Agreement
by Anisa | Nov 8, 2022 | Climate & Environment, Event, Food Sovereignty and Agroecology, India, Trade and Investment, Video | 0
Fishing communities today are grappling with multiple crises; extreme climate events that have...
Read MoreVideos: WTO 2022 Ministerial Conference Outcomes: Implications for India’s Agriculture and Food Security
by Anisa | Nov 1, 2022 | 1Post Types, India, Trade and Investment, Video | 0
Focus on the Global South, along with Third World Network and the Forum for Trade Justice...
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Aragalaya—Anti-government protest in Sri Lanka on April 13, 2022 in front of the Presidential Secretariat. Photo by AntanO for Wikimedia Commons.
Sri Lanka: a cautionary tale of authoritarian neoliberalism
by Anisa | Oct 17, 2022 | Asia/World, Food Sovereignty and Agroecology, Opinion/Analysis, Trade and Investment | 0
By Benny Kuruvilla* The Global Food Crisis, this time A dossier by Focus on the Global...
Read More[email protected]: End of the Road
by Anisa | Sep 29, 2022 | Asia/World, Climate & Environment, Corporate Accountability, Event, FOCUS Dispatch, Trade and Investment, Video | 0
Focus on the Global South organized an online press conference titled “[email protected]: End of the Road” to...
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Cover photo by Afsar Jafri, Focus on the Global South India Office, during the #EndWTO Mobilisation in Nairobi, Kenya, December 2015.
Big Pharma and Big Tech Win at the WTO — #MC12 Fails the Global South
by Anisa | Jun 22, 2022 | Asia/World, Opinion/Analysis, Trade and Investment | 0
The outcome of the 12th Ministerial Meeting (MC12) of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is a big...
Read MoreGovernments Must Break Big Pharma-WTO Stranglehold on Access to Medicine by Taking Immediate Action to Prioritize Human Lives Over Pharmaceutical Monopolies
by Anisa | Jun 17, 2022 | Asia/World, Statement, Trade and Investment | 0
More than two years into a pandemic that has killed 15 million people, World Trade Organization...
Read MorePRESS RELEASE: DEVELOPING COUNTRIES SHOULD WALK OUT OF WTO MINISTERIAL – TIME TO START PROCESS OF DISMANTLING THE WTO
by Anisa | Jun 14, 2022 | Asia/World, Media Release, Trade and Investment | 0
14 June 2022 Media Release:...
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Thai epidemiologists conduct active case investigations for COVID-19 during the Ramadan fasting period, resulting in the identification of more than 300 cases in the villages of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat Provinces from 17-18 April 2020. Photo by CDC Global.
REVOKE WTO TRIPS: NO COMPROMISE ON EQUITABLE ACCESS TO COVID 19 TREATMENT
by Anisa | Jun 13, 2022 | Asia/World, Statement, Trade and Investment | 0
Statement by Focus on the Global South 13 June 2022 The proposed compromise text on the...
Read MoreAgriculture Negotiations at WTO: No Sight of Real Solutions
by Anisa | Jun 13, 2022 | Asia/World, Opinion/Analysis, Trade and Investment | 0
by Ranjini Basu and Shalmali Guttal 13 June 2022 The 12th Ministerial Conference (MC 12) of the...
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