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September 2010 - Launch of the maiden issue of the Focus on the Global South Policy Review

September 19 - In Malaysia will be held the forum called "Regional Strategy Meeting on Emerging Social and Cultural Concerns in ASEAN: Climate Change, South East Asian Peoples’ Right to Information, Labor Migration and Domestic Work and Platforms for Civil Society Engagement with the ASEAN." Focus Philippines will make a presentation on "Building a Case for an ASEAN Protocol on Freedom of Information"

September 23 - 26 - Asean People's Forum in Hanoi, Vietnam. Fore more information, please send inquiries to the following: <apfhanoi-pc@aseanpeoplesforum.net>, <apfhanoi-ws@aseanpeoplesforum.net>. Ms Dorothy Guerrero, who is in the Bangkok office of Focus, seats in the Program Committee.

September 27 - October 1 - Freedom of Information Advocacy Week

September 23 - FOI Forum

September 27 - R2KRN will visit the Senate to renew the FOI campaign

September 28 - R2KRN will meet with Representatives of the Lower House

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Focus condemns the impunity of the Ampatuan Massacre, and joins the nation's call for justice.

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Dear All --
We regret to inform everyone that due to circumstances beyond our control, the Maude Barlow Water and Climate Justice Speaker Tour (March 16-19) is canceled. Some of the events will push through (without Ms. Barlow). We will email you the details, or you may log on to www.focusweb.org/philippines for quick updates.
Focus - Philippines still hopes to have the Maude Barlow tour this year, probably in the fall. Meanwhile, we will start plans for the midyear DDARP (hopefully with David Harvey) soon. We will keep you posted.

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Focus on the Global South - Philippines

Women: On With the March, Toward the Elections and Beyond!

(Militarism, Sexism, WTO, Arroyo RETREAT)

Today, March 8, the International Day of Women, we march, together with our sisters across the globe, to celebrate the lessons, the triumphs as well as the challenges of our many-faceted struggles.

We are workers marching for full employment with dignity and equal opportunity, amidst a backdrop of a hollowed-out domestic economy, of unwieldy migrationand contractualization, precarious and informal work, and chronic unemployment.

We are rural women, marching for food sovereignty, sustainable livelihoods and meaningful asset reform, in a country characterized by increasing hunger, where profit continues to define the production and distribution of food; and wealth, inputs and productive assets remain concentrated in the hands of a few families and corporations.