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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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Farmers demonstrate at the Singhu Border protest camp outside New Delhi on 29 December 2020. Photo: Ranjini Basu
A visit to India’s Singhu Border protest camp
For more than a month, farmers have laid siege to India’s national capital New Delhi, demanding...
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Representatives of farmer unions leave Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi after a meeting with Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on 5 December 2020. Photo: Kamal Singh/PTI
Long march to peasant unity
The unprecedented unity among peasant organisations is not a sudden development. It has been built...
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Student protestors occupy Sanam Luang, beside Bangkok's Grand Palace, on 19 September 2020. Photo: Jacob Goldberg
The political education of Thailand’s dissident youth
Thailand’s anti-government, anti-monarchy protests may have been triggered by recent abuses, but...
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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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In Defence of Democracy and the Farmers’ Movement
Media Release The widespread farmers agitations against the pro-business and anti-farmer...
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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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