Category: Statement
Trade Justice Pilipinas Press Statement: A Wake-Up Call Against Trump’s Weaponization of Trade
Trade Justice Pilipinas Press Statement 10 July 2025 A Wake-Up Call Against Trump’s...
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International Day of Peasant Struggles: Joint Statement of Peasant and Solidarity Organizations
Today, we join hands with peasants, fisher peoples, landless rural workers, small-scale food...
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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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[JOINT STATEMENT] Laos: States should ask “Where is Sombath?” at upcoming review of human rights record
15 December 2024: On the 12-year anniversary of the unresolved enforced disappearance of Lao civil...
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[Joint Statement] Thailand: Justice for Bung Sanesangkhom, stop harassment against dissent
Originally posted on FORUM-ASIA website here. The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development...
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Stop the criminalization of peasants. Protest action at the Department of Justice office in Manila. 8 March 2023. Photo by J. Purugganan
Protect land rights defenders from criminalization. Stop SLAPP cases on peasants and activists
17 April 2024 Solidarity Statement on the International Day of Peasant’s Struggles In...
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The members of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership. Wikimedia Commons.
Civil society groups say there is now even more reason to keep ISDS out of the RCEP
We, the undersigned civil society organisations from the 15 member countries* of the Regional...
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Country Rapporteur Asraf Ally Caunhye from Mauritius raises initial questions and comments from the Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights to the Philippine delegation. Geneva . 18 February 2025.
More decisive action needed to guarantee ESCR and protect HRDs in the Philippines
IDEFEND’s Statement on the 7th periodic review of the Philippines at the 77th Session of the...
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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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International Statement: World Bank Out of Land!
originally published here. On the opening day of the World Bank’s 2024 Land Conference,...
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PH, Germany agree to enhance trade, investments cooperation The Philippines and Germany have discussed ways on how to enhance the trade and investment cooperation of the two countries during the second day of the three-day working visit of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. in Berlin. March 12, 2024. Photo release from Presidential Communications Office.
REJECT EU-PH FTA AS SERIOUS CONCERNS CONTINUE TO HOUND AMBITIOUS CORPORATE TRADE DEAL
Trade talks with the European Union that were suspended during the time of President Duterte...
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