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Veolia in Asia-Pacific: five reasons why you should challenge Veolia
13 April 2015 As the 7th World Water Forum kicks off in Daegu, South Korea, civil society organizations and international allies have gathered in the city for an Alternative Forum-Water for All in...
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New Generation Free Trade Agreements: A Threat to Life and Livelihoods
17 April 2015 Multi-Sectoral Network Calls On Philippine Government To Turn Back From Its FTA Ambitions Statement of the EU-ASEAN FTA Campaign Network on day of Global Action to Defeat Free Trade and...
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22 May 2015 Today, members of the International Organisating Committee of the Asia-Europe Peoples' Forum and members of the three delegations to Laos who followed up on Sombath Somphone's abduction in...
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Groups reiterate call for full inclusion of their rights in the Bangsamoro...
25 May 2015 The support statement below, was submitted this morning to the Senate during the hearings on the Bangsamoro Basic Law. A video presenting the perspectives of non-Moro IP communities on this...
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Agrarian Reform Youth Congress in the Philippines
27 May 2015 Focus on the Global South Philippines participated in the first Agrarian Reform Youth Congress last weekend, which was attended by about 60 student leaders and grassroots rural youth and...
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Announcing our new Executive Director, Shalmali Guttal
Below is a letter from our Chairman, Surichai Wun'Gaeo:1 June 2015Dear all,As many of you will have heard by now, we are sadly bidding farewell to Pablo Solon, who has been the Executive Director of...
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Response to UPR: Rehashed Rhetoric & Continuing Contradictions
2 July 2015 The Sombath Initiative today released its critique of the Lao government's response to the 196 recommendations presented at its 2nd cycle Universal Periodic Review held in Geneva in...
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Intergovernmental Working Group on the Binding Treaty for TNCs hurdles...
7 July 2015 Text and photo by Joseph PuruggananThe intergovernmental working group (IGWG) mandated under the UN Human Rights Council Resolution 26/9 to spearhead the elaboration of a legally binding...
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Groups picket the Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) in Geneva
8 July 2015 Text and photo by Joseph PurggananGroups led by Geneva-based campaign against the Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) held a picket today in front of the Australian Permanent Mission in...
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Drowning A Valley: Destroying a Civilization - Sardar Sarovar Dam on Narmada...
Report of the Central Fact Finding Team’s visit to the Sardar Sarovar Project Submergence Areas in Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, India on 9th – 10th May, 2015This year marks 30 years of resilient...
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Standing on Contentious Grounds Documentary Series
6 August 2015 Focus on the Global South and Save Agrarian Reform Alliance (SARA) are launching a documentary series on agrarian reform and land rights, dubbed, "Standing on Contentious Grounds: Stories...
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International Conference on People's Struggles and Alternatives
Dear Friends and Colleagues,This year, Focus on the Global South (Focus) completes 20 years of life! To mark this occasion, we are organising an international conference on People’s Struggles and...
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Keynote Speech of Walden Bello at the International Conference on People's...
click here for more information about the conferenceIt is great to see so many of those who have been part of Focus on the Global South’s twenty-year journey here today, cherished comrades and friends,...
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Focus Policy Review: Understanding Land Grabbing, Land Rights in the 21st...
28 August 2015Issues or problems associated with land have become more multi-layered in the 21st century. In particular in the Philippine setting, a number of “pro-poor” land laws were enacted after...
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India Climate Justice's fourth issue of Mausam
01 September 2015Our friends at India Climate Justice have just released their fourth issue of Mausam. The contents of this issue are as follows:Editorial (p.2)Experiencing the Change: Climate Change...
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Sombath Somphone: 1,000 Days Without Justice - Press Conference and Panel at...
FIDH (International Federation for Human Rights) and The Sombath Initiative are holding a press conference and panel to mark 1,000 days of Sombath Somphone's disappearance. The event will be held from...
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Message of Solidarity with the Southern Peasant Federation of Thailand
28 September 2015On the occasion of the erection of a monument to commemorate the assassination of four land rights activists from the Southern Peasant Federation by gunmen in Klong Sai Pattana...
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Focus on the Global South 2014 Annual Report
13 October 2015We are pleased to present our 2014 Annual Report.The year 2014 brought many challenges across the South and South East Asia region. In Thailand, the military seized power in May after...
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UPR Stakeholder Joint Submission to Human Rights Council on Thailand
15 October 2015As we approach the second cycle of the Universal Periodic Review, Focus and our partners are proud to present the UPR Stakeholder Joint Submission to Human Rights Council on the...
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กลไกระงับข้อพิพาทระหว่างรัฐและนักลงทุนในข้อตกลงความร่วมมือหุ้นส่วนยุทธศาสตร์ภ...
19 October 2015นอกจากประเด็นการเข้าถึงยาและการผูกขาดเมล็ดพันธ์ทางการเกษตร กลไกรระงับข้อพิพาทระหว่างรัฐและนักลงทุน...
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