Join a special event co-hosted by Committee of 100 and the Foreign Policy Association, "Is Deglobalization Inevitable?" For more information, visit www.committee100.org/events/is-de...

[Statement] THAILAND: Authorities must overturn sentence against Chonthicha ‘Lookkate’ Jangrew, uphold freedom of expression Read full statement: focusweb.org/statement-th...

30 years of struggle, solidarity, and hope ✊🌱 This September, join us in celebrating Focus’ journey and envisioning the next 30 years. 📖 Book Launch – 24 Sept @seajunction.bsky.social 🏫 Conference – 25 Sept @ Chulalongkorn Uni (Hybrid) 🔗 Register for the conference us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🆕 #FOCUSDispatch August 2025 is out! From mass protests and police brutality in Indonesia to global reflections on care as resistance to piercing indictments of corporate complicity in genocide—this month’s stories trace how power operates, and how movements push back with courage, clarity, & care 🫂

🧵 THREAD Our dreams of a better future are not destined to remain ideas, held tightly and safely in the realm of our hearts and minds. They are seeds we must plant in the soil of our reality, nourish with our collective labour, water with our acts of care, and strengthen through our resistance.

NEW ARTICLE: Democratic Space Under Siege: Protests and Crackdown in Indonesia Indonesia’s civic space is closing under repression, but movements are pushing back. The “17+8 People’s Demands” set timelines for urgent and long-term reforms that could reshape accountability and democracy.

“Care and Resistance” brings together five diverse movements — Abahlali baseMjondolo (South Africa), LILAK (Philippines), West Street Recovery (U.S.), MST (Brazil), and SPFT (Thailand) — to share how care is embedded at the core of their struggles.

Stand in Solidarity with Indonesian Protesters against Inequality, Corruption, Repression, and Impunity! Read the full statement: focusweb.org/stand-in-sol...

Statement: From Allende to Albanese: The Legacies of Colonialism, Imperialism and the Struggle to Tame the Corporation Read at focusweb.org/from-allende...

🧵 THREAD International solidarity renews hope and also proves that alternative worlds rooted in justice and care are not just possible — they are very much within our grasp.

“Care and Resistance” brings together five diverse movements — Abahlali baseMjondolo (South Africa), LILAK (Philippines), West Street Recovery (U.S.), MST (Brazil), and SPFT (Thailand) — to share how care is embedded at the core of their struggles.

🧵 THREAD Movements are not just brief moments of rebellion; they are enduring efforts that light the way forward.

“Care and Resistance” brings together five diverse movements — Abahlali baseMjondolo (South Africa), LILAK (Philippines), West Street Recovery (U.S.), MST (Brazil), and SPFT (Thailand) — to share how care is embedded at the core of their struggles.

🧵THREAD Under capitalism, people are valued only if they can generate profits for corporations and drive economic growth. The system tries to shape everyone into the same mould, treating us as tools for industry. Those who don’t fit in are systematically neglected and marginalised.

🧵THREAD “Care and Resistance” brings together five movements to share and exchange how they are embodying care at the core of their fights. 📸 Abahlali baseMjondolo (South Africa)

🧵THREAD Across the globe, movements are not only organising and resisting oppressive systems but also pushing the boundaries of collective care to shape new realities in the fight for justice and liberation.

FfD4 in Seville presented commitments but left critical gaps in putting democracy, social justice, climate and environmental justice at the heart of the global financial architecture. Key demands include debt cancellation, a UN tax convention, and system change. Read at focusweb.org/financing-fo...

Across the globe, movements are embodying the radical changes needed to create realities beyond the capitalistic wireframe. Their daily struggle to end the exploitative systems which leave the majority behind is intertwined with intentional care: the revolutionary and unwavering commitment to—

Mapusa Mogi : A 100m long Ceramic Mural by Orijit Sen An ongoing community-centric public art project in Goa Read more about this project and support their Kickstarter campaign here: www.kickstarter.com/.../mapusa-m....

🧵THREAD As the world collapses under the pressures of capitalism, far-right authoritarianism, climate breakdown, and deepening inequality, movements are not sitting idle. Across the globe, they are organising and resisting oppressive systems and pushing the boundaries to embody new realities.

🆕✊ #FOCUSDispatch July 2025 is out! July was a month of rising resistance in the face of a deepening crisis. From war on the Thai-Cambodian border to unjust trade deals, debt distress, land grabs & shrinking civic space — movements across Asia push back with clarity & solidarity.

Towards a Permanent Peace — Statement of Focus on the Global South on the Cambodia-Thailand Border War Read at focusweb.org/towards-a-pe...

Forum for Trade Justice Press Release: The UK-India CETA: For Illusory Gains in Exports, India loses Massive Policy Space to Protect its Health, Data, and Livelihoods Read at focusweb.org/forum-for-tr...

Week's upcoming events🧵is here #MilkTeaAlliance We start in hope that the talks between the Thai & Cambodian gov't this week brings an end to the violence on the border. On that note we joined 59 other orgs in issuing a statement calling for a ceasefire & negotiated resolution to the conflict 1/

As Marcos Jr. delivered his 4th SONA, iDEFEND and grassroots groups took to the streets to demand justice, dignity, and accountability. Amid red-tagging, rights violations, and shrinking civic space, they declared: "Igiit ang gobyernong may pananagutan, labanan ang krisis sa kabuhayan at karapatan!”

In Defense of Human Rights and Dignity Movement (iDEFEND) Reaction to PBBM's 4th SONA #SONA2025

🔥Building Back People Power. Help Make It Happen! Over 50 grassroots movements are co-creating the 3rd Nyéléni Global Forum in Sri Lanka (September 2025). We’re working to ensure that frontline struggles lead the way—across continents and in 17+ languages.

From @fian-international.bsky.social: Twelve States that are part of “The Hague Group” have committed themselves to taking action to end genocide, occupation, and impunity by Israel in Palestine. The right to food must be at the heart of these efforts, as the self-determination and...

❗️FTA Thai-EU: Leveraging Human Rights Standards through Trade Negotiations By Parliament’s committee on Foreign Affairs 📌July 18, 2025 | 12.30-16.00 | at Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand (FCCT) More information at: www.facebook.com/focusonthegl...

Trade Justice Pilipinas Press Statement A Wake-Up Call Against Trump’s Weaponization of Trade Read at focusweb.org/trade-justic...

Letter: Urgent need for Indian intervention on the proposals on the future of genetic resources in the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) Read at focusweb.org/letter-urgen...

Over 70 national and international civil society organizations have signed and sent a letter to governments of RCEP member-states demanding the continued exclusion in the agreement of the toxic Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) mechanism. focusweb.org/civil-societ...

🌏🔥 FOCUS Dispatch June 2025 is out! From corporate land grabs to crushing debt, from feminist peacebuilding to Indigenous knowledge in the hills of Northeast India—this edition centers resistance, redistribution, and the fight for sovereignty across the Global South. ✊🏾💥

This week marks four years since environmental lawyer #DangDinhBach was unjustly imprisoned in Vietnam - silenced for standing up to pollution, injustice, and corporate greed. www.internationalrivers.org/news/four-ye...

Nearly half of the world’s population lives in countries that spend more on #debt repayments than on public services! Nyéléni newsletter: Resisting the threat of global finance, building #foodsovereignty. tinyurl.com/35bmtpmt Illustration: @tricontinental.bsky.social #cancelthedebt

#G77: No country should be made to choose between paying debt service and fulfilling human rights. 📢Stand firm and hold true in #FFD4 to the interests of your peoples in the Global South.

In the face of intersecting climate, food, inequality & democracy crises, peasants and Indigenous Peoples are rising. From the #Nyéléni2025 Forum to the #PeoplesSummit during #COP30, social movements are pushing for food sovereignty, global justice & system change #UNDROP

🌐 New @fian-international.bsky.social & Focus on the Global South report puts spotlight on top 10 global landowners controlling area as big as Japan. 📢Threatening food security/ livelihoods of 2.5 billion smallholder farmers & 1.4 billion of the world’s poorest. 📃 focusweb.org/publications...

US Pension Fund TIAA Linked to Brutal Land Grabs and Evictions of Farmers in Brazil www.commondreams.org/opinion/tiaa... #LandGrabbing #FoodSovereignty @focussouth.bsky.social @fiandeutschland.bsky.social @fianbelgium.bsky.social @fiancolombia.bsky.social

👨‍🌾Los señores de la tierra: terratenientes transnacionales, desigualdad y el imperativo de la redistribución Nuevo informe de @fian-international.bsky.social @focussouth.bsky.social 📙 www.fian.org/en/press-rel... Presentación en línea hoy a las 15:00h. Inscríbete en el QR🔽

Der Bericht von @fian-international.bsky.social und @focussouth.bsky.social zeigt, wie gefährlich die Konzentration von #Landbesitz ist. ✔ #GerechteLandumverteilung ✔ Eine #globaleSteuerreform ✔ Schutz von #Menschenrechten & #Umwelt - JETZT!

🌐New FIAN & @focussouth.bsky.social report puts spotlight on top 10 global landowners controlling area as big as Japan. 📢Threatening food security/ livelihoods of 2.5 billion smallholder farmers & 1.4 billion of the world’s poorest. 📃 shorturl.at/SVJKX #LandGrabbing #FoodSovereignty #ICARRD+20

🌍 Small group of global corporate landowners accumulate vast tracts of #land, fuel growing inequality, climate crisis. 📰 See The Ecologist: shorturl.at/jxY7H 📢 Join online discussion tomorrow, 15-17h CEST. Register: shorturl.at/HBg7x #LandGrabbing @theecologist.org @focussouth.bsky.social

Government of the Philippines hopes to boost "high-tech agriculture" through its soon-to-be-signed free trade agreement with the UAE. Will that mean land grabs? www.bworldonline.com/top-stories/... Experience in other countries: grain.org/e/7170 @ibonfoundation.bsky.social @focussouth.bsky.social

DON'T MISS ON TUESDAY! 🌍 Small group of global corporate landowners are accumulating huge amounts of #land, fueling growing inequality & climate crisis. 📢 Learn more on 3 June, 15-17h CEST. Register & join here: shorturl.at/HBg7x #FoodSovereignty #LandGrabbing

🔥✊ #FOCUSDispatch May 2025 is out! As record-breaking temperatures sweep the globe, workers are bearing the brunt—facing deadly heat, unsafe conditions, and inadequate protections. In this edition, we also wrap up our #KAA70 series and explore bold visions for South-South solidarity 🌍

SAVE THE DATE! 🌍 Small group of global corporate landowners are accumulating huge amounts of #land, fueling growing inequality & climate crisis. 📢 Learn more & how to ensure fairer distribution of land & wealth on 3 June. Register & join here: shorturl.at/HBg7x #FoodSovereignty #LandGrabbing

🌍 A small group of global corporate landowners are accumulating huge amounts of #land, helping to fuel growing inequality and the climate crisis. 📢 Join us and FIAN International on 3 June to learn more about who they are and how to ensure a fairer distribution of land and wealth

🌎✊🔥 70th Anniversary of the #Bandung Conference Through essays, reflections, and critical profiles, our latest Dossier explores the enduring relevance—and limitations—of Bandung’s vision in today’s struggles. Download at focusweb.org/publications...

✊🏽 70 years on, The Bandung Spirit lives on in today’s resistance. In this reflection, Walden Bello and Shalmali Guttal revisit the 1955 Bandung Conference—and how its call for anti-imperialist, South-South solidarity still resonates amid today’s deepening crises. Read focusweb.org/affirming-th...