Focus on the Global South
@focussouth
Activist think tank in Asia providing analysis and building alternatives for just social, economic, and political change.
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http://focusweb.org 06-12-2010 10:44:11
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⚫️ FORUM-ASIA is devastated by the loss of Bung Thaluwang, an advocate for #democracy in #Thailand . Bung fought for political prisoners' rights and reform, enduring detention and a hunger strike. We mourn for her soul and will continue her struggle for #justice and democracy.
Over 80 organizations from around the world accuse the World Bank of facilitating land grabbing and the financialization of nature.
via IPC Food Sovereignty
viacampesina.org/en/world-bank-…
And many western govts still perpetuate the lie that #IsraelWarCrime is in defense...Insane. Focus on the Global South FIAN International Asia Europe People's Forum Radhika Balakrishnan Michael Fakhri Raj Patel - also rajpatel.bsky.social #GazaGenocide
The Nakba has never ended, & apartheid Israel’s goal has never changed: maximum land with minimum Palestinians.
It’s time to stop the massacres, displacement & ethnic cleansing once and for all. #BDS now!
#NakbaDay #GazaGenocide #AllEyesOnRafah #Nakba76
loom.ly/IIz-N88
Our movement partner, Focus on the Global South, and +80 organizations of small-scale farmers, Indigenous Peoples, workers & grassroots communities denounce the World Bank as a major actor of land grabbing & ecosystem destruction.
Read their statement: foodsovereignty.org/international-…
#FoodSovereignty
Our movement partner, Focus on the Global South ,shares this interview with Vijay Prashad and Walden Bello, two leading public intellectuals from the Global South and key figures in international activism. Read it now👇🏽
NEW CAPITAL CITY PROJECT IN INDONESIA: VIOLENCE AND LACK OF TRANSPARENCY
.JATAM Kaltim denounces the recent move of the authorities to appeal against the decision of a State Court that the government should make public documents that it had kept secret: wrm.org.uy/node/20639
⚠️World Bank-supported carbon and biodiversity markets risk increasing dispossession and violence. #GreenWashing ⚖️States must redirect funding to real solutions for environmental justice, such as food sovereignty and agrarian reform.
👉Read the statement t.ly/i1huz
🤜🏦Over 80 social organizations denounce the World Bank for facilitating land grabbing and the financializing nature.
➡️States must implement the right to land of communities and enact agrarian reform.
⛔️World Bank stay out of land! #LandConf2024
👉 bit.ly/4bAwTvn