Category: Statement
Farmers, fishers, rural women, indigenous peoples, and civil society organizations come together to organize a press conference that aims to raise the alarm over the severe crisis in food, land, fisheries, livelihoods, and natural resources precipitated by the Duterte administration's neoliberal economic policies. [2019 October 15. Quezon City, Philippines. Photo by Galileo de Guzman Castillo.]
Resist the corporate takeover of agriculture, lands, waters, and natural resources
Statement on the World Food Day, 2019 October 15 We are in the midst of a food crisis. This is a...
Read MoreHundreds of Civil Society Organizations Worldwide Denounce World Economic Forum´s Takeover of the UN
240 civil society organizations and 40 international networks have called on the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General to end the recently signed UN’s Strategic Partnership Agreement with the World Economic Forum (WEF). The...
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Police in Kashmir confronting demonstrators in December 2018. Source: Wikimedia Commons
India asked to restore special status of Jammu and Kashmir
Focus signed on to this joint open letter to Prime Minister Modi on the situation in Jammu &...
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DUTERTE, THE SERPENT. His strongman rule ultimately serves the administration’s authoritarian and neoliberal agenda. United Peoples’ SONA. Quezon City, Philippines. 2019 July 22. Photo by Galileo de Guzman Castillo.
A Period of Consequences: The Era of Violence, Hardships, Betrayals, and Perversions under Duterte
Focus on the Global South’s Statement on President Rodrigo Duterte’s midterm State of the Nation...
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Rescue workers pull out victims from the rubble [Photo from PDF copy of the statement]
[Cambodia] Occupational Health and Safety for Construction Workers and Safe Building Standards Must Be Guaranteed
We, as workers, communities, associations, trade unions, civil society organisations and human...
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Photo by Ridan Sun
The ASEAN We Want
In 2009, Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) based in Southeast Asia and working closely with local...
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Young farmer killed in Bataan over agrarian land
Press Release/Statement 10 JUNE 2019 Hermosa, Bataan – Tensions broke out in Barangay Sumalo after...
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Adyenda ng Taumbayan, hindi Chacha ng iilan! Ika-labing walong araw ng Lakbay mula Marawi hanggang Maynila. Photo by Del Bañares
The Election Challenge: Stopping Duterte’s Authoritarian Agenda
FOCUS ON THE GLOBAL SOUTH The midterm elections come at very critical conjuncture. The series of...
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Laos: Six Years On, Civil Society Worldwide Demands Answers to the Enforced Disappearance of Sombath Somphone
14 December 2018: On the eve of the sixth anniversary of the enforced disappearance of Lao civil...
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Justice for the TAMASCO 8 Massacre. Now.
December 3 marks the first death anniversary of Datu Victor Danyan, his two sons, son-in law, and...
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Boycott of the Pak Lay Dam Prior Consultation Process
Save the Mekong press release and statement Media Contacts: Nguy Thi Khanh, Green ID |...
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Joint Civil Society Statement Concerning Ratification of the Work in Fishing Convention, 2007 (No. 188)
Fishing workers, through the very nature of their work, are especially vulnerable to human...
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