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Women, Agroecology & Gender Equality
This booklet is intended to serve as a basic background resource for grassroots groups, to make links between gender and agroecology, and to understand agroecology's potential to address gender...
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The Dedication of Sardar Sarovar Project Remains Incomplete #Don’tDedicateToMe
On the day of his birthday, 17th September, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Sardar Sarovar Dam, and dedicated this act to the nation. The dam - the second largest in the world -...
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A Tribute to Local Food Systems
According to data compiled by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), enough food is produced in the world to feed everyone and yet, over 800 million people suffer from hunger, 60 % of who are...
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Report Launch- SEZs and Value Extraction from the Mekong: A Case Study on the...
Event Date & Time: Fri, 2017-10-20 08:30 Invitation to Report Launch on: “SEZs and Value Extraction from the Mekong: A Case Study on the Control and Exploitation of Land and Labour in Cambodia...
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SEZs and Value Extraction from the Mekong: A Case Study on the Control and...
Executive Summary Special Economic Zones (SEZs) have been built worldwide since the 1960s to facilitate global free trade and integrate developing countries into global production and distribution...
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Press Release: Report Launch - “Special Economic Zones (SEZs) and Value...
For Immediate release“Special Economic Zones (SEZs) and Value Extraction from the Mekong: A Case Study on the Control and Exploitation of Land and Labour in Cambodia and Myanmar SEZs”Co-organized by:...
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From Streets & Communities to Halls of Power, Women Mobilize to Dismantle...
Hundreds of representatives of social movements from across the world converged in Geneva to challenge corporate power and reclaim people's sovereignty. Dubbed as the “People's Week of Mobilizations,...
View ArticleVIDEO: End Impunity Now!
Embedded video for VIDEO: End Impunity Now!Special Feature: #EndImpunityIn Asia today, the list of the disappeared, murdered, assaulted, harassed, imprisoned, and tortured continues to grow. The cases...
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Criminalization and Shrinking Space for Civil Society*
Across Asia, we are seeing the repression, denial, abuse and violation of rights of peoples and communities through criminalization, intimidation, disappearances, violence, and even murder. As we enter...
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Annual Report 2016
Focus in 2016 initiated and engaged more vigorously in endeavors that challenged the impunity of state and non-state actors in the region. One of the main approaches in doing this was working closely...
View ArticleEnd Impunity video project of Focus & iDefend to Receive Award
For its video on the situation of human rights in Asia, human rights violations in the form of extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances, Focus will receive a human rights award; the video...
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India Programme Officer
Focus on the Global South was founded in 1995 and is based in the Chulalongkorn University Social Research Institute (CUSRI) in Bangkok, Thailand. Focus is a non-profit, policy analysis, research and...
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Thailand Programme Officer
BackgroundFocus on the Global South (Focus) is a non-governmental organisation with offices in Thailand, Cambodia, the Philippines and India. Focus combines policy research, advocacy, activism and...
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Five years on, 122 organizations worldwide demand to know: “Where is Sombath?”
December 15th, 2017 - On the fifth anniversary of the enforced disappearance of Lao civil society leader Sombath Somphone, we, the undersigned organizations, express outrage at the Lao government’s...
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Basta ya! WTO: People Choose Sovereignty
Focus on the Global South, Statement on the failure of MC11 in Buenos Aires The failure of the WTO talks in Buenos Aires to produce any substantial outcome is a victory for the people. This is a clear...
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Climate Smart or Corporate Smart Agriculture
For majority of peasants and indigenous people in India and around the world, climate change is a dreadful reality that has drastically altered their and rendered them vulnerable to hunger, poverty and...
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A Vexed Contract!
CONTRACT FARMING AND ITS IMPLICATIONS ON SMALL SCALE FARMING IN INDIAIn developing country like India, where more than half of its 1.23 billion population is dependent on subsistence farming, both...
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Farmers Plight in their Own Words, an illustrated story (Hindi vers.)
Agriculture has been the driving force for India’s economy. At one point farming was even considered to be one of the most respectable job an individual could have. However, with the shift from zero...
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The Rise of Populist Authoritarianisms in Asia
In many countries in Asia, new forms of authoritarianism are on the rise. In the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte—a former mayor accused of organizing death squads and who promised to make the fish of...
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The Rise of Populist Authoritarianisms in Asia - PRINTABLE VERSION / NO PICTURES
ECO -FRIENDLY PRINTABLE VERSION WITH NO PICTURES (text only)!In many countries in Asia, new forms of authoritarianism are on the rise. In the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte—a former mayor accused of...
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