Financing for Development, Tax Justice and Debt Justice
by Anusha Lall| Focus on the Global South
Parliamentary event during the 4th United Nations Conference on Financing for Development †Taken July 2, 2025. Courtesy of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, licensed under Creative Commons (Some rights reserved).| focusweb.org
(Statement of Focus on the Global South on the Cambodia-Thailand Border War, July 31, 2025) The current border conflict between Cambodia and Thailand is no insignificant conflict. It is a full-fledged border war. Accurate information is still hard to come by, but some sources indicate that after eight days, 22 Cambodian soldiers have died, 22 […]| Focus on the Global South
Press Release 31 July 2025, New Delhi: The India-UK Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) was signed on 24 July 2025 by the Governments of India and the UK. Government press releases and media reports have advertised the major opportunities within the CETA. However, the Forum for Trade Justice —a group of 100 civil society organisations and trade […]| Focus on the Global South
2025 July 28 Commonwealth Avenue, Quezon City, Philippines Text and Photos by Galileo de Guzman Castillo Against the backdrop of the recently concluded Philippine Midterm Elections in May (in which most of the administration-backed candidates lost), the recent Supreme Court ruling that declared the impeachment proceedings against Vice President Sara Duterte as unconstitutional, […]| Focus on the Global South
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23 July 2025 A trade deal between the US and the Philippines was announced recently after President Marcos, Jr.’s meeting with US President Trump. While the details have yet to be disclosed, and there are reports characterizing the outcome as more “a loose framework of a deal”, what has been reported so far are […]| Focus on the Global South
Good afternoon. Thank you for the opportunity to contribute to the discussions. Allow me as well On behalf of Focus on the Global South as one of the co-organizers, to thank everyone for joining this side event at the HRC 59 to share the findings of a report on transnational landowners and inequality and the case for redistribution.| Focus on the Global South
Trade Justice Pilipinas Press Statement 10 July 2025 A Wake-Up Call Against Trump’s Weaponization of Trade Donald Trump’s decision to impose a 20% tariff on Philippine goods is a blatant weaponization of trade policy—an act of economic strong-arming that punishes countries like ours for incurring trade surplus with the USA. This kind of unilateralism […]| Focus on the Global South
Date: July 9, 2025 To: Sri Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Minister of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Government of India Subject – Urgent need for Indian intervention on the proposals on the future of genetic resources in the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) The 14th Meeting of the Ad Hoc Working […]| Focus on the Global South
We, the undersigned civil society organisations from the 15 member countries* of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), call upon RCEP governments to continue to exclude Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) from the RCEP. After strong civil society opposition and much public debate, governments agreed to exclude ISDS from the RCEP, which came into force for […]| Focus on the Global South
By Walden Bello* The recent unilateral strikes by the US on Iran’s nuclear development sites underline the fact that multilateralism is dead, and has been so for some time. It is not only when it comes to the question of the deployment of military power that multilateralism is shown to be dead or dying. […]| Focus on the Global South
by Biplab Ghosh and Angshuman Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) is not merely a body of localized wisdom about the natural world—it is a product of a dialectical synthesis of human labor and ecological consciousness. As Boaventura de Sousa Santos says in his book Epistemologies of the South: Justice Against Epistemicide, Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) […]| Focus on the Global South
In a time of global uncertainty, what could a free trade deal with the EU do for the Philippines? by Joseph Purugganan* In March 2024, the European Union and the Philippines announced the resumption of negotiations on a “comprehensive and modern” free trade agreement (FTA). After two rounds, the two parties have commenced discussions on […]| Focus on the Global South
by FemSamyan On 19th April 2025 at The Commune Chiang Mai, the event “Peace in a Feminist Way” brought together activists, scholars, and community members to reimagine peace-building and communication through an inclusive, intersectional feminist lens. Moving beyond the traditional framing of women and LGBTQ+ individuals as passive victims in armed conflicts, the event explored how peace efforts can actively center marginalized voices, challenge patriarchal narratives, and build solida...| Focus on the Global South
Massive tracts of land in the Global South are being bought up by international investors and ultra-rich corporations, fueling growing inequality – part of a wider global trend of wealth transfers away from the poor and working people.| Focus on the Global South
