🆕 #FOCUSDispatch December 2025 is out. Ending the year in a time of war and repression, this edition calls for peace, justice, and accountability. From border conflicts to occupation, enforced disappearance, and grassroots resistance, movements across regions continue to resist ✊

Last November, we were privileged to speak with Amani Odeh, a dentist, mother of two, and community organizer from Jerusalem. In this video, Amani reflects on the realities Palestinian women and families live through and shares a powerful message of resilience and hope. #Palestine

Focus on the Global South เน้นย้ำข้อเรียกร้องเร่งด่วนเพื่อทวงคืนสันติภาพให้กับชุมชนที่ได้รับผลกระทบและประชาชนส่วนใหญ่ทั้งในกัมพูชาและไทย รวมถึงองค์กรพันธมิตรภาคประชาสังคมและขบวนการภาคประชาชน ท่ามกลางสงครามที่ทวีความรุนแรงขึ้นตามแนวชายแดนกัมพูชา-ไทยในปัจจุบัน focusweb.org/focus-on-the...

Focus on the Global South amplifies the urgent call for peace amid the current escalating war along the Cambodia-Thailand border. Thai-Cambodian civil society network demands end to border clash with Cambodia: prachataienglish.com/node/11708 A thread 🧵

Laos: After 13 years, renewed international action needed to ensure justice in Sombath Somphone’s enforced disappearance #WhereisSombath Read our joint statement at focusweb.org/laos-after-1...

⚠️🇵🇸👨🏽‍🌾 ALERT! #LaViaCampesina strongly condemns attacks against its member organisation in Palestine & denounces the arbitrary arrests 📲 viacampesina.org/en/2025/12/a... @fidh-official.bsky.social @michaelfakhri.bsky.social @un-spexperts.bsky.social @commonmolly.bsky.social @alexisdeswaef.bsky.social

Join us- December 12th at 3:00 PM CET / 7:30 PM IST / 8:00 AM Belize for a timely conversation about fisher peoples sovereignty 🗓️ Friday, December 12 ⏰ 3:00 PM CET / 7:30 PM IST / 8:00 AM Belize 🔗 Zoom Meeting ID: us02web.zoom.us/j/8825581774... Meeting ID: 8825581 7741 Passcode: 482510

🟣 G20@Johannesburg 🇿🇦 4th December 6:30 pm IST 🟢 COP30@Belem 🇧🇷 6th December 2:30 pm IST 🔌 Plug in to the online Roundup. Register here to receive zoom link: forms.gle/wkKBqZmAAJdi...

🎙️ PEOPLE's DEBRIEF [India] 📊📋💼 As the curtains are drawn upon the G20 presidency in South Africa and the COP30 in Brazil, it is imperative that we do a round-up of what transpired, the highlights, major takeaways for Global South, implications for India, what was positive & what seemed amiss.

🎙️ PEOPLE's DEBRIEF [India] 📊📋💼 As the curtains are drawn upon the G20 presidency in South Africa and the COP30 in Brazil, it is imperative that we do a round-up of what transpired, the highlights, major takeaways for Global South, implications for India, what was positive & what seemed amiss.

🆕✊ #FOCUSDispatch November 2025 is out! From the Asia Pacific Social Forum in Bangkok to the Peoples’ Summit at #COP30 in Belém, movements across the Global South are rising for peace, climate justice, and liberation. Dive into this month’s voices of resistance and solidarity.

What does “efficiency” really mean in the context of public services? Our latest event report from the session on public service governance unpacks the conversations on privatization, equity, and community-led accountability. Read at focusweb.org/redefining-e...

Seeds of change are being sown in the hills of Nagaland! 🌱 🌄 Read how the #Agroecology Summit in Peren, Nagaland, brought together farmers, youth & community leaders to revive traditional seeds, biodiversity & food sovereignty. Full article: focusweb.org/seeds-of-cha...

NEW VIDEO: Week 1 at #COP30: Key Negotiation Updates & People’s Summit Highlights In this conversation, Joseph Purugganan speaks with Benny Kuruvilla, Focus on the Global South's Associate and former Head of the India Office, reporting live from COP30 in Belem, Brazil.

DECLARATION OF THE PEOPLES’ SUMMIT TOWARDS #COP30 Read the full declaration at focusweb.org/declaration-...

On 12 November, the Peoples Summit began with an extraordinary flotilla of over 200 boats along the Guajara and Guama rivers in Belem. The boat parade brought together some 5000 participants who had travelled in caravans from various regions in Brazil. #COP30

Statement of the UN Working Group on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas on the Occasion of COP30, Belem, Brazil #COP30 Read at focusweb.org/statement-of...

Message from Sokalo Gond, President of the All India Union of Forest Working Peoples (AIUFWP) on November 10, 2025, at Bharati Sadan Women’s Empowerment Centre, Nagal Mafi, Uttar Pradesh, India. #COP30

Today is a crucial day as we celebrate for International Fisher Women's Day. We would like to send our solidarity messages to all fisherwomen around the world. Long live the struggle of fisher women!

🆕✊ #FOCUSDispatch Sept–Oct 2025 is out! From Focus’s 30th-anniversary gatherings in Bangkok to solidarity calls at the UN in Geneva, from food sovereignty to trade justice, from free speech in Thailand to the struggle for Palestine—movements across the world confront power and build alternatives 🌏🔥

Join us on October 30 at 7pm Bangkok (8am New York/9am Brasilia/1pm Rome/3pm Nairobi/8pm Manila) for a cross-cutting dialogue bringing together insights from the economic justice, food, land and climate agendas. REGISTER here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Look forward to seeing you there!

Chulalongkorn University is deeply saddened by the passing of Her Majesty Queen Sirikit, the Queen Mother, and joins the Thai people in mourning her demise. We pay tribute to all that she accomplished and her lasting legacy. www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...

Civil society at the Palestine Solidarity March in Geneva demanded an end to corporate impunity and accountability for corporate complicity in the Gaza genocide. #EndCorporateImpunity Our Co-Director Joseph Purugganan, reporting from Geneva. Read at focusweb.org/complicity-o...

📣🌐 Corporations aren’t just observers, they’re complicit! Civil society is taking the demand for accountability to the UN stage. @stoptncimpunity.bsky.social and allies are exposing how corporations are complicit in genocide and grave human rights violations. Read at: focusweb.org/press-releas...

🧵 Focus on the Global South is alarmed on defamation lawsuit initiated by Thailand's Giant Conglomerate Charoen Pokphand Foods (CPF) against Witoon Lianchamroon, BIOTHAI Foundation Researcher (1/3)

🌐 Unpacking the ASEAN-Canada FTA: Risk and Threats of Investor Lawsuit to State on People, Environment, and Democracy 🗓️ Thursday, 30 October 2025 ⏰ 19:00-21:00 JKT/BKK | 20:00-22:00 KL/MNL | 08:00-10:00 OTT Register via bit.ly/AseanCanadaW... Interpretation will be available in 🇮🇩🇹🇭

"The EU took the floor to lecture the world about rights and democracy while on a ruthless deregulation campaign, promoting trade agreements that only serve corporate interests. Stop siding with corporate lobbies and secure a strong #BindingTreaty." Sol Trumbo Vila @tninstitute.bsky.social

The United Nations #BindingTreaty negotiations have begun in Geneva! Follow along as we create the Global mechanisms for access to justice with and for affected communities, accountability for corporate violations of #HumanRights and an end to the reign of corporate impunity

Corporate giants and their financiers are maintaining the occupation and genocide in Palestine. As they reap colossal profits, the rights of the Palestinian people are being trampled on. In solidarity with the Palestinian people, we demand an end to corporate complicity and impunity #FreePalestine

Ramping up for the Peoples' Week of Mobilisation and 11th session of the #BindingTreaty negotiations this week We come together, communities, movements and organisations from around the world to internationalise the struggle against corporate power and impunity ✊️

This is far more than a struggle for corporate regulation. It is a struggle for life, dignity and the sovereignty of communities long sacrificed on the altar of corporate profit. Keep the #CorporateLobby out of the #BindingTreaty negotiations. Read our latest joint report with @foeint.bsky.social👇

Rural women feed nations, care for the land, and sustain communities, yet they remain among the most marginalized groups, facing profound violations of their fundamental human rights. UN experts urge governments to act now to uphold their rights and dignity.

The journey to justice continues. ⛵ Our solidarity isn't stopping. We're gathering on October 7 at the Palestine Embassy in Makati to keep the pressure on. Be part of the wave. #SolidaritySailsOn Oct 7 | Palestine Embassy, Makati 🇵🇭

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...