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Labor Trafficking as the Modern-day Slave Trade: the Philippine Case
Saturday, May 12, 2012 - 11:38
The Philippines is one of the great labor exporters of the world. Some 10 per cent of its total population and 22 per cent its working age population are now migrant workers in other countries. With remittances totaling some $20 billion a year, the Philippines places fourth as a recipient of remittances, after China, India, and Mexico.
Labor Export and Structural Adjustment
The country’s role as a labor exporter cannot be divorced from the dynamics of neoliberal capitalism. The labor...
Global Governance of the Internet must be Democratised!
Friday, May 11, 2012 - 11:16
A joint statement by civil society organisations for the UN CSTD meeting on 'Enhanced Cooperation on Public Policy Issues Pertaining to the Internet' to take place in Geneva on May 18th, 2012
proposed byFocus on the Global South (Thailand), Instituto Nupef (Brazil), IT for Change (India), Knowledge Commons (India), Other News (Italy), Third World Network (Malaysia)
The Internet is a major force today, restructuring our economic, social, political and cultural systems. Most people implicitly...
Why the Green Economy is a wrong path to restore the equilibrium with nature and what alternatives do we have?
Thursday, May 10, 2012 - 14:21
Twenty years after the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1992, the environmental crisis continues to worsen. The unsustainable development model that gained dominance in the world resulted to grave loss of biodiversity, melting of polar ice caps and mountain glaciers, alarming increase in deforestation and desertification and the looming danger of an at least 4ºC increase in temperature, which will threaten life as we know it. Science is saying that we...
Focus on the Global South Statement on the Denial of Entry to Belgium of Mr. Walden Bello
Tuesday, May 8, 2012 - 13:37
We strongly protest the refusal of the Belgian Ministry of Interior to allow Dr. Walden Bello entry into Belgium on May 4th. Dr Bello is a co-founder and Board Member of Focus on the Global South, a member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines, and an internationally respected academic and activist for social, economic and environmental justice. His shabby treatment has shocked and raised the indignation of civil society, academics and policy makers in numerous countries....
Video Documentary “Global Crises, Regional Solutions”
Tuesday, May 8, 2012 - 11:19
Can regional integration offer a way out of the current economic, climate, food and energy crises? In this video documentary, activists from Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe* argue that regional integration is the only viable response to these crises.
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Video Documentary | 26 minutes | April 2012
Produced by: Transnational Institute, in cooperation with Focus on the Global South and Hemispheric Social Alliance. This...
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