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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...
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Latest issue of Mausam, the magazine from India Climate Justice
A message from the Editors: This latest issue of Mausam includes fresh reports from how communities on the ground are battling the harsh realities of a climate-changed world—the aftermath of the 2013...
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Climate Change and the Agriculture Crisis : Agroecology as a Solution
What exactly is the climate change crisis ? How does it affect us ? Are we causing it ? How ? How is it going to affecting our land, water, food and lifestyle ? Can we anything about it ? How ? Why is...
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India Climate Justice's fourth issue of Mausam
Our friends at India Climate Justice have just released their fourth issue of Mausam. The contents of this issue are as follows:Editorial (p.2)Experiencing the Change: Climate Change and Everyday Life...
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Looking at the Non-Negotiables: People and Planet
A keynote address at the Rountable Discussion: EU-ASEAN Trade Relations, State of Play and Areas of Strategic Cooperation co-organized by the European Institute for Asian Studies (EIAS) and...
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Capitalism V. Climate: System Change, Yes, But How Do We Proceed? | A Public...
The UP Asian Center, in collaboration with NGOs and civil society organizations, will hold a public conversation, “Capitalism v. Climate: System Change, Yes, But How Do We Proceed?,” featuring as lead...
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Social movements join together in Geneva to support a Binding Treaty on...
Joseph Purugganan, the head of our Philippines team, is in Geneva this week to join the mass mobilisations organised by the Global Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity. Read the...
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Social Movements Help the United Nations Human Rights Council to Stay the...
Press release from the Global Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power. Photo by Joseph Purugganan.
View ArticleDrowning A Valley: Destroying a Civilization - Sardar Sarovar Dam on Narmada...
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, 2015This year marks 30 years of resilient...
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Focus Policy Review: Understanding Land Grabbing, Land Rights in the 21st...
28 August 2015Issues or problems associated with land have become more multi-layered in the 21st century. In particular in the Philippine setting, a number of “pro-poor” land laws were enacted after...
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A Public Forum on Humanity & Nature: Traditional, Cultural & Alternative...
February 17, 2016, 9.30 am–12.30 pmRuan Chula Narumit, Chulalongkorn UniversityThis public forum will share the key lessons and conclusions from the Sombath Symposium, a three day event which aims to...
View ArticleFAO Symposium on Biotechnology: The biotechnology industry runs the show...
The undersigned representatives of peasant and other Civil Society organizations, men and women, express our concern and alarm about the FAO International Symposium on “The Role of Agricultural...
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Press Release: European commission found guilty of maladministration for...
"This is a landmark ruling by the European Ombudsman that would rightfully make human rights a core issue in any FTA negotiations.
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In Photos: International Women's Day 2016, Manila, Philippines
Photos by Judy Pasimio, Galileo de Guzman, Anna Marie Afan, Claudia Patricia Afan, and Rodel BañaresClick here for the full screen slideshowImage: Campaigns & Programmes: Power and Democracy
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The Southern Peasants Federation (SPF) Press Statement: The future of the...
When we attempted to investigate landholding of the rich, the result was we have been prosecuted and tried in the Court. We were then sentenced to jail and were held liable to pay damages to the rich....
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In Photos: International Women's Day, Cambodia
Photos by Ridan SunClick here for the full screen slideshowImage: Campaigns & Programmes: Power and Democracy
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Aviation industry’s offset plans distracts from urgent need to reduce...
As member countries of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), the United Nations’ specialised aviation agency, gather in Utrecht to discuss ways to ‘offset’ emissions from the airline...
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#RiceNotBullets: Denial of food and Shooting of Farmers are Both Forms of...
Some six thousand farmers*, including Lumads, from North Cotabato and their families marched to the Cotabato provincial high-way last week and staged a rally to ask the government for sacks of rice and...
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[In Photos] Kalampag: Campaign Against Hunger
Focus joins hundreds of protesters in front of the Philippines' Department of Agriculture Office to demand justice and urgent government action on El Nino. Kalampag or Kampanya Laban sa Pagkagutom...
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Thailand: Call for urgent action on disappearance of land rights activist
Mr. Den Kamlae, a prominent activist from the Khokyao community, has been reported missing since 16 April 2016. He was last seen at his house before entering the community forest to collect forest...
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