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Current Paddy Rice Price Crisis: Wake-Up Call On a More Systemic Problem
BY SOPHEA CHREK“We, 164 families, have been faced with drought, insects and worms that are destroying our crops and that led to a lesser yield; the harvested yields are sold at a low price on the...
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Decoding the Pivot to China: A conversation with Ambassador Chito Sto. Romana
Event: 9 November, 1-4pm, PRRM President Rodrigo Duterte's statements during his State visit to China last week on the Philippines'"separation" from long-term ally the United States and his so called...
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Cooling the Planet: Frontline Communities Lead the Struggle – Voices from the...
Small-scale food producers and consumers, including peasants, indigenous peoples, hunters and gatherers, family farmers, rural workers, herders and pastoralists, fisherfolk and urban people – the...
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Resisting Neoliberalism
Our Executive Director, Shalmali Guttal, was in Australia earlier this month and gave a talk at the Addison Road Community Centre in Sydney about neoliberalism, how it manifests in Asia, and how people...
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Agrarian Conflict in Langkat, North Sumatera, Indonesia: Police & Military...
LANGKAT--Violence against farmers continues here. Hundreds of hectares of peasants' land (peasants who are members of SPI Indonesia Peasant Union), located in Mekar Jaya Village, Wampu Subdistrict,...
View ArticleBuilding a movement to fight inequality
At the World Social Forum in Montreal earlier this year, the Fight Inequality Alliance held a very interesting interactive discussion on the dynamics and manifestations of inequality, existing...
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The Hidden Costs of RCEP and Corporate Trade Deals in Asia
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is currently being negotiated between 16 countries in the Asian region. It includes China, members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations...
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Revealed: Massive Hidden Costs of secret RCEP trade deal
Jakarta, December 8th: The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is being negotiated in Jakarta, Indonesia this week (December 2-10)[i]. If signed, RCEP would grant corporations the...
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International Human Rights Day 2016: Global Day of Action in Defense of the...
MANILA, Philippines - Focus on the Global South joined thousands of human rights defenders to commemorate the International Human Rights Day on 10 December 2016: Global Day of Action in Defense of the...
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‘People Go 2017’ Declaration
We the “People Go Network Forum” comprised of villagers, community based organizations, peasants, academia, nongovernmental organizations, labors, media, students, the self-employed from...
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Laos: On fourth anniversary of enforced disappearance, civil society demands...
Bangkok, 15 December 2016: On the fourth anniversary of the enforced disappearance of prominent Lao civil society leader Sombath Somphone, we, the undersigned organizations, condemn the Lao PDR...
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Not just of the Past, Protest Music Kept Alive in the Philippines
The event Songs of Disquiet, Hymns of Rage, held December 28 in Quezon City, Philippines, might have been a reunion of sorts of ‘70s and ‘80s activists, including musicians of the said era, but the...
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Urban Development in Bangkok - Development for Whom?
12 January 2017The city of Bangkok is undergoing massive change and development, from the closing of street markets to the planning of large infrastructural projects in an effort to beautify, clear and...
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Philippine CSOs to the ASEAN Chair: “Be the change that you want to see in...
Press ReleaseManila, 16 January 2017: One day after the launching of the Philippine Government’s Chairship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Davao City, more than 100 members of the...
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Rural Producers Collectives in India
Ever since the integration of India's peasants into global agri-food markets, their livelihoods have become at risk. In this globalized food system where large corporations rule, small-scale farming is...
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What is happening to our forests? Conference report and presentations
To view presentations click here.From 21-25 November 2016, about 50 people, involved in struggles to defend the territories, forests and livelihoods of forest-dependent communities, came together in...
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Tourism and the Sea Peoples in Thailand
By Niabdulghafar Tohming and Matt DavidsonPrior to the arrival of tourists in the peak season of tourism which starts around November – December, Sea gypsies, or what Thais and foreigners call “Chao...
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Time to Terminate Trade & Investment Agreements Allowing Corporations to Sue...
The recent investment arbitral decision on the Baagerwerken Decloedt En Zoon (BDZ) versus the Philippines case in favor of the Belgian corporation should be a wake up call to the Duterte administration...
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Philippine CSOs to ASEAN Economic Community: “People First Over Profits;...
MAKATI CITY, Philippines – On Valentine’s Day, around 100 members of the ASEAN Civil Society Conference/ASEAN Peoples’ Forum 2017-Philippines National Organizing Committee (NOC) wearing red shirts...
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Human Rights Activists Say No to Re-imposition of Death Penalty & Call for...
Focus on the Global South – Philippines joined human rights advocates and other civil society organizations in the country, as well as from other parts of the globe who have expressed support for the...
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