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Announcing our new Executive Director, Shalmali Guttal | Focus on the Global South
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Skip to main content. Announcing our new Executive Director, Shalmali Guttal. Below is a letter from our Chairman, Surichai Wun'Gaeo:. I hope that you will join the Focus Board of Directors and staff in welcoming Shalmali to her new role as Executive Director of Focus. Focus on the Global South. 20 Years of Focus. Launch of the New Focus on the Global South Programme- Whose New Asia led by Pablo Solon, Focus' New Executive Director. Announcing Our New Website: Understanding China's Energy Landscape.
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Standing on Contentious Grounds Documentary Series | Focus on the Global South
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Skip to main content. Standing on Contentious Grounds Documentary Series. And their post-land distribution situation. The second stop, featured through two video documentations, is at Hacienda Dolores, Porac, Pampanga, an agrarian hotspot and scene of land grabbing and various human rights violations by one of the biggest conglomerates in the country. Agaw Lupa (Land Grab). Tackles the woes and demands of the residents and farmers of the Hacienda and Hustisya (Justice). Until When Shall We Wait? Rep Wald...
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International Conference on People's Struggles and Alternatives | Focus on the Global South
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Skip to main content. 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! Information about the conference and Focus' 20 years including the link to the live webcast can be found at this website: http:/ focusweb.org/20years. We look forward to thinking, working and marching with you! 20 Years of Focus. Join the international people's solidarity days: July 4-8, 2008, Hokkaido, Japan. Spannin...
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Behind the climate negotiating text for COP21 | Focus on the Global South
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Skip to main content. Behind the climate negotiating text for COP21. The future lies in the past. What has happened will determine what will come. The idea that we can change everything and save the world at the last minute is exciting in movies but it does not work in real life. It particularly applies when we speak about issues like climate change where the consequences of what we did in the past century are just beginning to manifest. The center of the debate? The position of developed countries in ge...
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Social Movements Help the United Nations Human Rights Council to Stay the Course on Creating a Binding Treaty for Transnational Corporations | Focus on the Global South
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Skip to main content. Social Movements Help the United Nations Human Rights Council to Stay the Course on Creating a Binding Treaty for Transnational Corporations. Press release from the Global Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power. Photo by Joseph Purugganan. Andrea Tognoni: 0039 331 334 169. Http:/ www.stopcorporateimpunity.org/. Http:/ www.stopcorporateimpunity.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/CampaignSubmission-EN-jul2015.pdf. Social movements join together in Geneva to support a Binding Treaty on Tran...
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Donations | Focus on the Global South
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Skip to main content. Your support will help us continue our advocacy, policy research, activism and grassroots capacity building. Please contribute to Focus on the Global South today! 5 : $5.00 USD - monthly. 10 : $10.00 USD - monthly. 15 : $15.00 USD - monthly. 20 : $20.00 USD - monthly. Focus on the Global South Inc. Bank of the Philippine Islands. 114 Kalayaan Ave, Diliman Quezon City Phils. Go to the site. For two decades, Focus has been a leading voice in Asia against. A repository of data, informa...
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Invitation - The Greek Tragedy: Lessons from/for the Philippines, July 24, Friday 1-5pm @ UP Asian Center | Focus on the Global South
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Skip to main content. Invitation - The Greek Tragedy: Lessons from/for the Philippines, July 24, Friday 1-5pm @ UP Asian Center. Sponsored by Focus on the Global South, Freedom from Debt Coalition, and UP Asian Center. As the country prepares for another Presidential election in 2016, it is high time to revisit the country’s debt strategy and economic program. What should be the approach of the Philippines to resolving its own debt problems and dealing with its international creditors? 2:15-3:15 Panel: U...
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Latest issue of Mausam, the magazine of India Climate Justice | Focus on the Global South
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Skip to main content. Latest issue of Mausam, the magazine of India Climate Justice. A message from the Editors:. This issue has been delayed but we begin this year with the hope that we can continue to publish subsequent editions promptly, sharing updated information, analysis and perspectives on varied aspects of climate justice. We need to continue to search and support for alternatives that seek to make this planet safe for our future generations. Mausam icj3 January March 2015.pdf. June 2016 Issue o...
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Drowning A Valley: Destroying a Civilization - Sardar Sarovar Dam on Narmada River | Focus on the Global South
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Skip to main content. Drowning A Valley: Destroying a Civilization - Sardar Sarovar Dam on Narmada River. 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, 2015. The fact-finding report titled. Drowning a Valley Destroying a Civilization. FF Report Final July28-2015.pdf. Save the Mekong Coalition Calls on Prime Ministers to Cancel Mekong Mainstream Dams. Rivers in State can be rejuvenated. Spanning mor...
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To really address climate change UNFCCC-COP18 should decide to leave under the soil more than 2/3 of the fossil reserves | Focus on the Global South
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Skip to main content. To really address climate change UNFCCC-COP18 should decide to leave under the soil more than 2/3 of the fossil reserves. 2012 saw the shocking melt of the Arctic, leading our greatest climatologist to declare a 'planetary emergency,' and it saw weather patterns wreck harvests around the world, raising food prices by 40% and causing family emergencies in poor households throughout the world. It means that- without dramatic global action to change our path- the end of the climate sto...
