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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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Dear Readers,

This April, Focus on the Philippines covers water and energy issues as we mark Earth month, with statements and analysis from the Peoples’ Water Forum as well as papers regarding the proposed nuclear option and revival of the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP). The issue also includes a special section on the G20 and posts data from the National Statistical Coordination Board regarding the poor and climate change.

This issue also takes us to Istanbul, London and China. Here, Mary Ann Manahan talks about the Paradox of Asia’s Water. Walden Bello, newly sworn in Philippine Congress representative, unpacks the G-20; while Julie Delos Reyes presents her insights on China amidst the crisis.

In the Philippines, the energy debate is taking a dangerous turn as government officials seriously consider nuclear energy as a “sustainable, steady, quality, affordable source of power” followed by a bill to revive the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant. The BNPP bill has provoked intense opposition from social movements, church groups and other progressive organizations. In this issue, the Network Opposed to the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (NOtoBNPP), a network of progressive organizations, social movements, academics, progressive legislators, human rights advocates, ecologists, media people, church workers, consumers movements & activists against the rehabilitation and operation of the BNPP, shares four articles which lay down at least seven reasons why they’re against the revival of the BNPP. (notobnpp.wordpress.com)

Contents:

WATER
BNPP

Socioecon Monitor: Climate Change and the Poor

Development Brief: Changing Course: China Amid the Global Recession by Julie De los Reyes

FOCUS ON THE G20


Materials on the BNPP provided by the Network Opposed to the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (NOtoBNPP). These articles were originally published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer. NOtoBNPP is a network of progressive organizations, social movements, academics, progressive legislators, human rights advocates, ecologists, media people, church workers, consumers movements & activists against the rehabilitation and operation of the BNPP. (notobnpp.wordpress.com)
 
 
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