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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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In Photos: World Beyond Banks protest activities at the WB-IMF meeting in Bali
Bali, Indonesia - Focus on the Global South this week joins delegates from local, national, regional and international people's movements and NGOs for the "World Without Banks" series of activities...
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Infrastructure for whom?
Bali, Indonesia - International Financial Institutions led by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank Group (WBG) have long touted infrastructure development as a mark of progress....
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The Changing Face of Food Retail in India
The Global Network for the Right to Food and Nutrition launches 'When Food Becomes Immaterial: Confronting the Digital Age”, a report exploring the impact of technologies on what and how we eat, as...
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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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The Changing Face of Food Retail in India
The Global Network for the Right to Food and Nutrition launches 'When Food Becomes Immaterial: Confronting the Digital Age”, a report exploring the impact of technologies on what and how we eat, as...
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Corporate control and food sovereignty: issues and ways forward
Report from a forum on corporate concentration in agriculture and food, and its implications on food sovereignty in South East AsiaOn 24 July 2018, Focus on the Global South, ETC Group, and the...
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Cambodia: Case Study Report on Illegal Fishing in the Tonlé Sap
Members from Cambodia's Action Research Teams (ART) network who come from fishing communities investigate and analyse illegal fishing in the Tonlé Sap, Cambodia's 'great lake'. As fishers from...
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Cambodia: Pheapimex Land Conflict Case Study Report
This case study report documents the long struggle of the communities affected by the 315,000-hectare land concession of Pheapimex Company in Kampong Chhnang and Pursat provinces. It describes the...
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Farmers Protest Passage of Rice Tariffication Bill
Pasay City, Philippines - Around 200 rice farmers, farmworkers, rural youth and women from various national and local organizations held a protest at the gates of Senate to oppose the approval of SB...
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Toward land justice : Thai farmers’ struggles to defend their land and life
A public event was held on 17 to 18 November 2018 at Thammasat University, Bangkok to discuss and share the land issues in relation to inequality in Thailand. The event, which included panel...
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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 4 other tribal members and indigenous rights defenders of the T’boli community in Brgy. Ned, Lake Sebu....
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SEZs and Value Extraction from the Mekong [BURMESE VERSION]
Complete title: SEZs and Value Extraction from the Mekong: A Case Study on the Control and Exploitation of Land and Labour in Cambodia and Myanmar's Special Economic Zones This is the Burmese language...
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Laos: Six Years On, Civil Society Worldwide Demands Answers to the Enforced...
14 December 2018: On the eve of the sixth anniversary of the enforced disappearance of Lao civil society leader Sombath Somphone, we, the undersigned organizations, reiterate our calls for the Lao...
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Case Study Report: Lor Peang Community Land Conflict
This case study report has been written to present and reflect on the Lor Peang land conflict with KDC International, from the perspective of the Lor Peang community activists. It utilizes information...
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Politics of Seeds: Common Resource or a Private Property
This publication provides a comprehensive analysis of the situatiation surrounding seeds, which are a central element of agricultural economy and of ecology. From being a commonly-held resource...
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Small fishers call for pro-people rehabilitation of Manila Bay
The Duterte administration’s rehabilitation of Manila Bay is set to begin on 27 January but a group of municipal fishers around the bay are decrying the lack of community involvement in the P47 billion...
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New Challenges and Strategies in Defense of Land and Territory
LRAN Briefing Paper No. 4: New Challenges and Strategies in Defense of Land and TerritoryWhat is happening with the land and natural wealth around the world, and to the people who depend on them? How...
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Trade Justice Pilipinas calls for the temporary withdrawal of EU trade...
In the wake of worsening human rights situation in the Philippines under the Duterte administration, Trade Justice Pilipinas, a peoples network campaigning for just trade and investment policies calls...
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