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CADTM.org
April 18, 2018
Based in Belgium and Morocco, its activists work on developing alternatives to help communities tackle the pile up of debt, with particular focus on the global south. Mr. Toussaint's book 'Bankocracy', published in 2015, drew global attention for its analysis of the role of banks and governments in enlargingÃâà...
Rappler
April 18, 2018
When with friends, I kidded her that she might eventually regret having a partner 17 years older than her since she would end up taking care of me in my old age, to which she replied that adult diapers had greatly simplified that taskÃâà...
eLearningInside News
March 24, 2018
Philanthropy University has a concerted directive: help non-government organizations make a measurable difference, with a focus on the global south. That work is known as capacity building, and it isn't exactly Hammurabi's Code either. Philanthropy University's CEO Connor Diemand-Yauman is the firstÃâà...
Intercontinental Cry
March 22, 2018
As the WRM, together with La Via Campesina, Friends of the Earth International and Focus on the Global South, stated in an Open Letter to FAO in 2014, “The definition fails the at least 300 million women and men worldwide who, according to FAO, directly depend on forests for their livelihoods.” The FAOÃâà...
ucanews
March 21, 2018
Yasmin Ahammad is program development officer of the non-government group Focus on the Global South. She has most recently spent three years working with ethnic community-based organizations on the Thailand-Myanmar border. Clarissa Villasin-Militante is communications officer of the Focus onÃâà...
La Croix International
March 19, 2018
Yasmin Ahammad is program development officer of the non-government group Focus on the Global South. She has most recently spent three years working with ethnic community-based organizations on the Thailand-Myanmar border. Clarissa Villasin-Militante is communications officer of the Focus onÃâà...
Livemint
March 4, 2018
He travelled tirelessly across the world on a wheelchair, advocating the rights of disabled people, and stressed that disability movements must focus on the global south including in India, for this is where nearly 800 million of the world's one billion people with disabilities live. Lending voice to an “invisibleÃâà...
SouthFloridaGayNews.com
February 23, 2018
The symposium will focus on the Global South of the Americas, and will bring together South Florida activists with their Latin American and Caribbean counterparts to build relationships, partnerships and solidarity. ImpactOUT has also partnered with Pridelines Youth Services and Florida InternationalÃâà...
Myanmar Times
February 6, 2018
Dr Charlie Thame of Bangkok-based Thammasat University, who has recently published a report on SEZs in the Mekong for Focus on the Global South, said the demands are not unreasonable and the statement is informed by negative past experience. “A range of negative environmental and social impacts associated withÃâà...
SciDev.Net
December 11, 2017
The push for ever increasing agricultural yields has reached its limits and food production must take into account the needs of the planet and the impact on people's health, according to Tim Benton, a leading food security scientist. It comes as the UN's 2017 State of Food Security and Nutrition reportÃâà...
Business Today
November 24, 2017
In a press conference organised by the Third World Network, Focus on the Global South and Forum Against FTAs in New Delhi, the groups wanted India to make its stance on WTO ministerial public. "In the last Nairobi Ministerial itself, they (advanced economies) kicked out the Doha (development) agenda.
Mail & Guardian
November 23, 2017
Produced by Nas, Shake the Dust follows B-boying crews from different parts of the world, with a focus on the Global South. It goes beyond a focus on dancing styles, techniques and so on, choosing instead to highlight the camaraderie and friendships forged during these communal acts. Indeed, what KoolÃâà...
Myanmar Times
October 26, 2017
... toward the interests of investors but against those of locals and the environment, according to an October report by civil organisations Paung Ku, Dawei Development Association, Tavoyan Women's Union, Myanmar SEZs'Watch, EarthRights International – Myanmar and Focus on the Global South.
Eleven Myanmar
October 23, 2017
Charlie Thame of Thammasat University presents the report findings. Beside him is Shalmali Guttal of Focus on the Global South(Photo-Khine Kyaw, Myanmar Eleven). As Myanmar pushes to attract more foreign direct investment through its three special economic zones, civil society organisations haveÃâà...
The Wire
July 21, 2017
... columnist Walden Bello is an international adjunct professor of sociology at the State University of New York at Binghamton. He's the author of Capitalism's Last Stand? Deglobalization in a Time of Austerity, an associate of the Transnational Institute and co-chair of the board of Focus on the Global South.
The Wire
July 21, 2017
He's the author of Capitalism's Last Stand? Deglobalization in a Time of Austerity, an associate of the Transnational Institute and co-chair of the board of Focus on the Global South. This article was originally published on Foreign Policy in Focus. Liked the story? We're a non-profit. Make a donation and helpÃâà...
Foreign Policy In Focus
July 19, 2017
He's the author of Capitalism's Last Stand? Deglobalization in a Time of Austerity (London: Zed, 2013), an associate of the Transnational Institute, and co-chair of the board of Focus on the Global South. Issues: Labor, Trade, & Finance. Regions: Asia & Pacific, Europe & Central Asia, North America, UnitedÃâà...
SouthFloridaGayNews.com
December 31, 1999
The symposium will focus on the Global South of the Americas, and will bring together South Florida activists with their Latin American and Caribbean counterparts to build relationships, partnerships and solidarity. ImpactOUT has also partnered with Pridelines Youth Services and Florida InternationalÃâà...
