Walmart-Flipkart Deal: Continuing attack on retailers, producers, farmers &...
Public Statement, 4 June 2018 WALMART-FLIPKART DEAL: CONTINUING ATTACK ON RETAILERS, PRODUCERS, FARMERS & LABOUR, AND ON INDIA’S DIGITAL SOVEREIGNTY The US based Multinational Corporation (MNC)...
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The Reality of the National Economic Backbone
"I feel unsafe. I always lose things, even clothes. Clothes get stolen when being dried. If we have money to buy good (valuable) things and keep them in the room, we have to be watchful."While the...
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Data Gathering and Information in ‘Post-truth’ Era
Author: Clarissa MilitanteManila—A research project team from the top universities in the Philippines launched last week of June the website https://www.drugarchive.ph/, which puts together its...
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Non-Moro IP Provisions in Senate Bill 1717 and House Bill 6475: Compliant to...
By: Alim M. Bandara[1]The two versions of the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) --Senate Bill 1717 and House Bill 6475 have been met with diverse reactions from different stakeholders in the Bangsamoro core...
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Lumad in the Bangsamoro Video Series
The bicameral conference of the Philippine Congress is due to take place on July 9-12, 2018. This is a crucial stage in the legislative process for indigenous peoples' (IP) in Mindanao, as both...
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Corporate Concentration in Food and Agriculture; Implications on Food...
Event Date & Time: Tue, 2018-07-24 09:00 to 17:00Focus on the Global South, the ETC Group and Chulalongkorn University Social Research Institute (CUSRI) are organizing a Forum on Corporate...
View ArticleStatement of Civil Society in Thailand on RCEP Negotiation and the Thai...
On the 20th of July 2018, 25 civil society organizations in Thailand in the sectors of health, agriculture, fishery, environment, internet, labor rights, women rights and climate change convened a...
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RCEP: Corporate capture on a grand scale
Intervention at the RCEP Stakeholder Engagement during the 23rd Round of RCEP negotiations in Bangkok, Thailand, 23 July 2018Joseph Purugganan, Focus on the Global SouthIt is a privilege to address...
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RCEP: A Secret Deal
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is currently being negotiated between 16 countries in the Asia and Pacific regions. It includes China, members of the Association of Southeast...
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Save the Mekong Statement on the Collapse of the Xe Pian - Xe Nam Noy...
Save the Mekong, a coalition of non-government organizations, community-based groups and concerned citizens within the Mekong region, wish to express our shock and concern at the recent collapse of the...
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Duterte 2 Years on: Destructive, Divisive, and Despotic
Focus on the Global South Statement on the 3rd State of the Nation Address (SONA) 2018When Rodrigo Duterte won the presidency in 2016, some even among the left toyed early on with the idea that a...
View ArticleSulagad: Our Life, Our Future
Embedded video for Sulagad: Our Life, Our FutureIn commemoration of the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, Focus on the Global South, presents the video documentary, “Sulagad: Our...
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Joint Civil Society Statement Concerning Ratification of the Work in Fishing...
Fishing workers, through the very nature of their work, are especially vulnerable to human trafficking as well as forced, bonded and slave labour, operating as they do in isolated and hazardous...
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Boycott of the Pak Lay Dam Prior Consultation Process – Save the Mekong press...
Media Contacts:Nguy Thi Khanh, Green ID | ntkhanh@greenidvietnam.org.vnShalmali Guttal, Focus on the Global South | s.guttal@focusweb.orgWora Suk, Thai ETO Watch | worasukcm@gmail.com Friday 24...
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Focus on the Global South Newsletter Volume 4 Number 4, August 2018
Focus on the Global South releases the 4th edition of Focus Newsletter, which tackles the issue of democracy in Asia and its different facets--elections, constitutions, (extreme) nationalism, populism,...
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Repormang Agraryo at Pagbabago: Narratives on Agrarian Conflicts,...
Focus is pleased to release online its newest publication Repormang Agraryo at Pagbabago? Narratives on Agrarian Conflicts, Transitions, And Transformation; the launch of the book edition took place on...
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Program Officer - Focus India Programme
Focus seeks a Programme Officer for its India office to strengthen its existing programme and expand programme activities into related areas.Focus on the Global South (Focus) is a non-governmental...
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Annual Report 2017
Guided by its overarching three-year workplan, Focus organized, conducted, and implemented its work in the context of two major challenges in Asia: the deepening of neoliberalism and the...
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The Hindu Counterrevolution: The Violent Recreation of an Imagined Past
Walden Bello traces the rise of the present-day Hindu nationalist movement from its marginal origins at the time of Indian independence to its formidable present domination of the political...
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The EU Dilemma: Trade and Human Rights under Duterte
Author: Joseph PuruggananThis paper was presented by Joseph Purugganan at the Asia Europe Peoples Forum in Ghent, Belgium September 29, 2018. Joseph is the head of the Philippine office of Focus on the...
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