Focus on the Global South (Focus) will launch its Focus Policy Review 2019, “Critical Junction: Derailing or Accelerating the Dictatorship Express

DATE : Friday, 12 April 2019, from 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM
VENUE: Max’s Restaurant, Quezon City Memorial Circle, Diliman, QC

The FPR is a biennial publication that providing timely and grounded analysis on political economy. This issue critically examines the Duterte administration’s policy response and action points on the following issues:

  • Charter Change and Federalism
  • Inflation
  • Food sovereignty
  • Climate and environment
  • Corruption
  • Gender justice
  • Human rights and democracy
  • Peace and Mindanao

The publication also puts forward a progressive peoples’ agenda as an alternative to the dominant neoliberal and authoritarian agenda and proposes this to be the basis of our vote in the Midterm Elections.

[Artwork by Mae Yano.]