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# Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD)

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- [Program Updates](https://apmdd.org/blog-3/)
- [Midway in UN tax negotiations: Global South sees reason for optimism, urges high ambition must prevail](https://apmdd.org/midway-in-un-tax-negotiations-global-south-sees-reason-for-optimism-urges-high-ambition-must-prevail/) - NEW YORK — Midway through the pivotal fifth negotiating session of the UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation at United Nations Headquarters, the Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD) offers preliminary observations on the progress achieved so far. While deep Global North-South divides persist over fair taxing rights and sustainable development goals,
- [Why Asia must fight for global tax justice at the UN](https://apmdd.org/why-asia-must-fight-for-global-tax-justice-at-the-un/) - OECD rules won’t save Asian revenues or fund climate resilience. The upcoming UN Tax Convention negotiations offer our best chance to rebuild a broken system. By Lidy Nacpil Developing countries across Asia are caught in a brutal squeeze between compounding sovereign debt, devastating climate impacts, and chronically underfunded public infrastructure. Yet every day, vital national
- [Ending Big Oil’s free ride in the Global South: Asian nations demand UN tax treaty to turn fossil super-profits into climate finance](https://apmdd.org/ending-big-oils-free-ride-in-the-global-south-asian-nations-demand-un-tax-treaty-to-turn-fossil-super-profits-into-climate-finance/) - Ahead of the 5th negotiating session of the United Nations Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation in New York, the Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD) is calling on Asian governments to take a decisive stand for a transformative treaty that forces fossil fuel polluters to fund global climate action. Asian civil society
- [UN global tax treaty talks proceed in New York](https://apmdd.org/un-global-tax-treaty-talks-proceed-in-new-york/) - Asian civil society calls on finance ministers to stop tax abuse by multinational corporations, shift tax burden from workers to super-rich NEW YORK — As government delegates deliberate the ‘zero draft’ of a United Nations convention on international tax cooperation, civil society groups across Asia called for an ambitious global tax treaty that would secure fair
- [Solidarity with the People of Azad Jammu and Kashmir](https://apmdd.org/solidarity-with-the-people-of-azad-jammu-and-kashmir/) - The Asian People's Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD) condemns state violence against the people of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) and the growing crackdown on those expressing solidarity with their struggle across Pakistan. As the protest movement entered its 56th day, thousands of people rallied in Islamabad in support of the people of AJK,
- [Why the Philippines must fight for global tax justice at the UN](https://apmdd.org/why-the-philippines-must-fight-for-global-tax-justice-at-the-un/) - OECD rules won’t save Philippine tax revenues. The UN tax negotiation is our chance to fix the system. By Lidy Nacpil and Luke Espiritu The Philippine government took a noteworthy step recently as the Department of Finance (DOF) and Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) officially began drafting the legislative and administrative framework to implement the Global
- [Asia Debt Monitor 2026 Issue #2](https://apmdd.org/asia-debt-monitor-2026-issue-2/) - Powered By EmbedPress
- [Rising Burdens, Deepening Injustice and the Urgent Call for Debt Justice](https://apmdd.org/rising-burdens-deepening-injustice-and-the-urgent-call-for-debt-justice/) - Powered By EmbedPress
- [APMDD briefer on the Belem-Antalya Mechanism](https://apmdd.org/apmdd-briefer-on-the-belem-anatalya-mechanism/) - Powered By EmbedPress
- [APMDD Brief on the Climate Finance Work Programme and the Fight to Implement Article 9.1](https://apmdd.org/apmdd-brief-on-the-climate-finance-work-programme-and-the-fight-to-implement-article-9-1/) - Powered By EmbedPress
- [All spin, no shift away from fossil fuels – ADB loans harm people and the climate](https://apmdd.org/all-spin-no-shift-away-from-fossil-fuels/) - Download the PDF (English) Powered By EmbedPress
- [G7: Jailers of a Global Debtors’ Prison](https://apmdd.org/g7-jailers-of-a-global-debtors-prison/) - Download the PDF (English) Powered By EmbedPress
- [UN Tax Convention must end "double subsidy" for Big Tech data centers in Malaysia, warns Charles Santiago](https://apmdd.org/un-tax-convention-must-end-double-subsidy-for-big-tech-data-centers-in-malaysia-warns-charles-santiago/) - Civil society leader calls for unitary taxation and public country-by-country reporting as UN talks shift from principles to binding legal text NEW YORK — As negotiations for the United Nations Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation begin today in New York, former Malaysian Member of Parliament and civil society leader Charles Santiago has warned that the
- [TAFJA Open Letter Addresses Asian Governments on Tax Justice Imperatives](https://apmdd.org/tafja-open-letter-addresses-asian-governments-on-tax-justice-imperatives/) - The Tax and Fiscal Justice Asia reaches out to delegates representing governments from Asia at the negotiations for the UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation in an open letter released August 1, days before the resumption of negotiations August 3-13 in New York. TAFJA is calling for substantive texts to operationalize the principles on the
- [APMDD response to PH first nuclear power generation capacity auction guidelines: DOE’s draft rules risk high electricity bills, debt, waste and catastrophic radiation. Nuclear power is a false solution for the grid.](https://apmdd.org/apmdd-response-to-ph-first-nuclear/) - The Department of Energy’s (DOE) draft tender rules for pioneer nuclear power plants (DC2025-10-0019) put private profits ahead of consumer protection and renewable energy progress. While proponents pitch nuclear energy as a solution by 2035, the government’s proposed framework threatens to lock the Philippines into expensive power, lock out cheaper renewables, and burden taxpayers with
- [CSOs call on rich nations to deliver trillions in climate finance](https://apmdd.org/csos-call-on-rich-nations-to-deliver-trillions-in-climate-finance/) - APMDD and members of international civil society mobilized outside the 9th Board Meeting of the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD) at the Asian Development Bank Headquarters in Metro Manila, Philippines. They urged developed countries to deliver on existing pledges and commit trillions in climate reparations to the Global South. Half a year
- [The Philippines under IMF/WB debt claws: Six Decades of Shaping Mal-Development](https://apmdd.org/thephilippinesunderimf-wbclaws/) - Powered By EmbedPress
- [Ten Principles for the Rapid, Equitable, and Just Transition to Renewable Energy Systems](https://apmdd.org/principles-rejt/) - View / Download the PDF (English) Links to the translations for the Principles FRENCH HINDI NEPALI PORTUGUESE SPANISH URDU Powered By EmbedPress
- [Briefer on Greenwashing Extractivism and Illicit Financial Flows: The LNG Industry and the Case of San Miguel Corporation](https://apmdd.org/greenwashing-extractivism-and-iffs/) - Powered By EmbedPress
- [UN Public Service Day: People’s Rights Before Debt Service](https://apmdd.org/un-public-service-day-peoples-rights-before-debt-service/) - Download File (English)
- [From Sierra Nevada to the sea: A united front in Santa Marta demands a fossil-free future](https://apmdd.org/from-sierra-nevada-to-the-sea-a-united-front-in-santa-marta-demands-a-fossil-free-future/) - SANTA MARTA, COLOMBIA — Today, the salt air of Santa Marta mixed with the rhythmic chants of hundreds as a vibrant "March for a Fossil Free Future" surged through the city’s historic center. Local residents, Afro-descendants, women, youth, international movements and Indigenous Peoples from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta joined global civil society and
- [Asian Peoples' Agenda on Food Systems Transformation](https://apmdd.org/asian-peoples-agenda-on-food-systems-transformation/) - The Asian Peoples’ Agenda on Food Systems Transformation articulates the common analyses, principles, and demands of the member organizations of the Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD) regarding the transformation of food systems. It aims to serve as a shared reference material for campaigning. The Agenda is grounded in the history and conditions
- [CSOs and affected communities confront ADB’s “Kraken of Destruction” at ACEF 2026](https://apmdd.org/csos-and-affected-communities-confront-adbs-kraken-of-destruction-at-acef-2026/) - Manila, Philippines - Civil society organizations led by NGO Forum on ADB staged a creative protest at the 21st Asia Clean Energy Forum (ACEF 2026), unveiling a giant ‘Kraken of Destruction’ to denounce the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) role in deepening the global energy crisis through continued fossil fuel financing, extractive investments, and false climate
- [Protest at ACEF: Civil Society Marches on ADB to Denounce Fossil Fuel Agenda](https://apmdd.org/protest-at-acef-civil-society-marches-on-adb-to-denounce-fossil-fuel-agenda/) - The Asian Peoples' Movement on Debt and Development, the NGO Forum on ADB, and affected communities marched to the Asian Development Bank Office in the Philippines to protest the bank's destructive fossil fuel agenda. Outside the venue of the 21st Asia Clean Energy Forum (ACEF), civil society and communities slammed the ADB’s 2025 Energy Policy
- [#FillTheFund: Why the Loss and Damage Fund Can’t Become Another Empty Promise](https://apmdd.org/fillthefund-why-the-loss-and-damage-fund-cant-become-another-empty-promise/) - On Day 1 of the FRLD board meeting in Manila, Lidy Nacpil reminded the board of the Fund’s core function: “A country is hit by a climate disaster and it needs money immediately without being forced to take out emergency loans that must be repaid. Pakistan, for example, has been hit by three major floods
- [The Real Cost of Debt: Filipino Women on the frontlines against the debt and climate crisis](https://apmdd.org/the-real-cost-of-debt-filipino-women-on-the-frontlines-against-the-debt-and-climate-crisis/) - There can be no #DebtJustice without #ClimateJustice.This is abundantly clear in countries like the Philippines, where rebuilding from devastating natural disasters has added to the debt burden and led to the highest national debt levels for 20 years. Additionally, more than a third of national income is spent on repaying domestic and external creditors, leaving
- [Santa Marta must confront the fossil fuel profit machine](https://apmdd.org/santa-marta-must-confront-the-fossil-fuel-profit-machine/) - As governments gather in Santa Marta today to map out a “just, orderly and equitable” transition away from fossil fuels, the world is already being pulled in the opposite direction. Conflict in the Middle East - initiated by the US and Israel - is driving up oil and gas prices, with the effects moving rapidly through global markets.
- [Civil society to ASEAN leaders at 48th Summit: Phase out fossil fuels and shift to 100% renewable energy](https://apmdd.org/civil-society-to-asean-leaders-at-48th-summit-phase-out-fossil-fuels-and-shift-to-100-renewable-energy/) - MANILA (May 9, 2026) — As the 48th ASEAN Summit and Related Meetings conclude in Cebu under the chairmanship of Philippine President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr., the Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD) issued a sharp rebuke of the regional bloc’s current energy trajectory. The group demanded an immediate pivot away from "extractivist,
- [Civil society coalition in Santa Marta hails People’s Summit a success, welcome nations’ alignment on debt justice and binding treaty to end fossil fuels](https://apmdd.org/civil-society-coalition-in-santa-marta-hails-peoples-summit-a-success-welcome-nations-alignment-on-debt-justice-and-binding-treaty-to-end-fossil-fuels/) - SANTA MARTA, COLOMBIA (April 28, 2026) — The global coalition of civil society organizations, frontline communities, Indigenous Peoples, Afro-descendants, women, youth, and workers today hailed the People’s Summit as a resounding success and welcomed the high-level plenary’s alignment on debt justice and binding treaty to dismantle the global fossil fuel economy. According to the coalition,
- [Global wave of rallies sweep across continents ahead of historic Santa Marta fossil fuel phase-out talks](https://apmdd.org/global-wave-of-rallies-sweep-across-continents-ahead-of-historic-santa-marta-fossil-fuel-phase-out-talks/) - Civil society groups in dozens of cities have taken to the streets to ensure the People’s Roadmap remains at the heart of the official transition plan A massive wave of global protests swept across 38 countries two days before the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels convenes in Santa Marta, Colombia. Rallyists called on
- [Global movements unite in Santa Marta to launch “People’s Declaration for a Rapid, Equitable, and Just Transition for a Fossil-Free Future” ahead of historic climate conference](https://apmdd.org/global-movements-unite-in-santa-marta-to-launch-peoples-declaration-for-a-rapid-equitable-and-just-transition-for-a-fossil-free-future-ahead-of-historic-climate-conference/) - 26 APRIL 2026, SANTA MARTA, COLOMBIA – As more than 50 countries prepare to gather for the First International Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels, co-organized by the governments of Colombia and the Netherlands, a powerful global coalition of civil society organizations, frontline communities, Indigenous Peoples, Afro-descendants, women, youth, and workers today officially launched the
- [WHY A UN DEBT CONVENTION IS CRITICAL FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE](https://apmdd.org/why-a-un-debt-convention-iscritical-for-climatejustice/) - Powered By EmbedPress
- [BROKEN DEBT SYSTEM MUST BE FIXED TO CONFRONT FUTURE CLIMATE SHOCKS](https://apmdd.org/broken-debt-system-must-be-fixed-to-confront-future-climate-shocks/) - Powered By EmbedPress
- [Asian civil society leaders call for accelerated energy transition as Middle East conflict cripples region’s economies](https://apmdd.org/asian-civil-society-leaders-call-for-accelerated-energy-transition-as-middle-east-conflict-cripples-regions-economies/) - Ahead of the historic First Conference on Transitioning Away From Fossil Fuels, Asian civil society leaders and climate justice advocates convened today to demand an accelerated shift toward renewable energy. Their call comes as a deepening energy crisis, triggered by intensifying conflict in the Middle East, forces nations across Asia to grapple with record-breaking fuel
- [APMDD joins protest against World Bank amid IMF-WB Spring Meetings](https://apmdd.org/apmdd-joins-pmcj-taguig-protest-against-world-bank-amid-imf-wb-spring-meetings/) - TAGUIG, Philippines — Earlier today, PMCJ, Oriang, Sanlakas, and APMDD stormed the World Bank office in Bonifacio Global City to demand accountability for the harm and crisis due to decades of fossil fuel financing and called for cancellation of all illegitimate debts. The protest coincided with the IMF-World Bank Spring Meetings, highlighting a blatant lack
- [[OPINION] Why Malacañang is wrong about the wealth tax](https://apmdd.org/opinion-why-malacanang-is-wrong-about-the-wealth-tax/) - By Lidy Nacpil(Article reposted from Rappler, published Mar 29, 2026 2:00 PM PHT) When a handful of families control wealth equivalent to a significant chunk of the national GDP while the majority of Filipinos struggle with inflation, the harm is not in taxing the rich, but in failing to do so. The argument that taxing
- [Asia Debt Monitor 2026 Issue #1](https://apmdd.org/asia-debt-monitor-2026-issue-1/) - Powered By EmbedPress
- [Solidarity with the People of Venezuela](https://apmdd.org/solidarity-with-the-people-of-venezuela/) - Powered By EmbedPress
- [Infographic: International Women’s Day - No Gender Justice without Debt Justice!](https://apmdd.org/infographic-international-womens-day-no-gender-justice-without-debt-justice/) - Powered By EmbedPress Powered By EmbedPress
- [Asian leaders denounce US-Israel "geopolitics of destruction" threatening regional energy security and human rights](https://apmdd.org/asian-leaders-denounce-illegal-us-israel-attack-on-iran-warn-of-threats-to-regional-energy-security-and-human-rights/) - MANILA, PHILIPPINES — The Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD) and regional climate justice advocates today strongly condemned the US and Israel-led attack on Iran as “a clear act of aggression and outright violation of the UN Charter and international law.” In a collective statement, APMDD leaders said the ongoing military campaign against
- [In Photos: Educational Discussion on Gas Expansion and False Solutions](https://apmdd.org/educational-discussion-on-gas-expansion-and-false-solutions/) - Meaningful conversations today with the community of Bgy. Vasra! APMDD joined forces with AEN, DGA, and the Global Fight to End Fossil Fuels for a session on climate education. Empowering communities to speak up for a fossil-free future.
- [[AEN Magazine-March 2025] Impacts of Fossil Gas: Stories from the Ground](https://apmdd.org/impacts-of-fossil-gas-stories-from-the-ground/) - The Philippines’ energy transition is taking a detour from dirty coal to equally dirty Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG). Fossil gas is framed by its proponents as the pathway to economic growth and energy security. However, communities living in its shadow have to deal with the gripping reality of their harmful impacts. “Stories From the Ground”
- [IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE SRI LANKAN PEOPLE – DEBT AND CLIMATE JUSTICE NOW!](https://apmdd.org/in-solidarity-with-the-sri-lankan-people-debt-and-climate-justice-now/) - Powered By EmbedPress
- [Asia Debt Monitor 2025 Issue #3](https://apmdd.org/asia-debt-monitor-2025-issue-3/) - Powered By EmbedPress
- [#COP30 Global Day of Action for Climate Justice in Belém: From the Amazon to the World](https://apmdd.org/cop30-global-day-of-action-for-climate-justice-in-belem-from-the-amazon-to-the-world/) - On the Global Day of Action for Climate Justice, APMDD leaders joined 70,000 on the streets of Belém as part of the Peoples' Summit. From the Amazon to the world, movements united their struggles in the fight against inequality, exploitation, and climate destruction. Coordinator Lidy Nacpil said: "From Asia to the Amazon, we are mobilizing
- [Nov 15 Global Day of Action for #ClimateJustice](https://apmdd.org/nov-15-global-day-of-action-for-climatejustice/) - Filipinos marched in Manila for the Global Day of Action for #ClimateJustice. Two thousand people joined the march. From Manila to Belém, they demanded rapid fossil fuel phase out, #JustTransition #reparations #ClimateFinance now! The Nov 15 Global Day of Action for Climate Justice was organized by a coalition of social, environmental, Indigenous and human rights
- [RECAP: From Asia to the Amazon, APMDD leaders continue to raise the calls and demands of our movements at the #COP30](https://apmdd.org/recap-from-asia-to-the-amazon-apmdd-leaders-continue-to-raise-the-calls-and-demands-of-our-movements-at-the-cop30/) - Day 1: Pang Delgra of APMDD and Prayash Adhikari of Digo Bikas Institute led a mobilization outside the new corporate-sponsored “AgriZone”, Big Ag’s latest attempt to co-opt the climate conversation. The AgriZone, hosted by Brazil’s public agriculture research body Empraba and sponsored by pesticide firm Bayer, is a gathering of corporations, think tanks, and research
- [Principles for Equitable and Just Transition in the Global South](https://apmdd.org/principles-equitableandjusttransition/) - EJT PrinciplesDownload
- [Coal plant workers in Quezon, Philippines unite to advance just transition in coal sector](https://apmdd.org/coal-plant-workers-in-quezon-philippines-unite-to-advance-just-transition-in-coal-sector/) - Leaders of two coal plant unions participated in a workshop and dialogue on climate change and just energy transition last October 17 organized by Workers for Just Transition (W4JT), Federation of Free Workers (FFW), National Confederation of Labor (NCL), Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD), and Philippine Movement for Climate Justice (PMCJ). The
- [Civil society groups protest Japan’s fossil fuel financing as AZEC Summit concluded](https://apmdd.org/civil-society-groups-protest-japans-fossil-fuel-financing-as-azec-summit-ends/) - Civil society leaders staged a protest action in front of the Japanese Embassy in Manila on October 28, 2025, just as the 3rd Asia Zero Emission Community (AZEC) Summit was held last October 26 in Kuala Lumpur during the ASEAN Summit.They called on Japan’s new Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi, to end the country’s financing of
- [Parliamentarians and APMDD hold Asia-Africa seminar on renewable energy](https://apmdd.org/parliamentarians-and-apmdd-hold-asia-africa-seminar-on-renewable-energy/) - Event Highlights: Parliamentarians for a Fossil-Free Future, in cooperation with the Asian Peoples' Movement on Debt and Development, held the Asia Africa Seminar on Renewable Energy in Thailand from 3–5 October, 2025, during the Bangkok Climate Action Week 2025. The seminar served as a space to exchange legislative experiences on renewable energy, build intercontinental collaboration
- [APMDD at the Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum #BKKCAW2025](https://apmdd.org/apmdd-at-the-asia-pacific-climate-change-adaptation-forum-bkkcaw2025/) - The Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development stands in solidarity with the Philippine Movement for Climate Justice's work in pushing for a rapid, equitable, and just transition to #renewableenergy through a subnational government approach. ----- At the Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum held during the #BKKCAW2025, Gov. Noel Rosal discussed the role of the
- [Asian Peoples’ Petition on Wealth Taxation](https://apmdd.org/asian-peoples-petition-on-wealth-taxation/) - Powered By EmbedPress
- [The current state of the Asian Peoples’ Petition on Wealth Taxation signing across Asia](https://apmdd.org/the-current-state-of-the-asian-peoples-petition-on-wealth-taxation-signing-across-asia/) - Powered By EmbedPress
- [Praymer Patungkol sa Petisyon sa Wealth Tax](https://apmdd.org/asian-peoples-petition-on-wealth-taxation-praymer/) - Powered By EmbedPress
- [The Youth and Debt Justice: Claiming Our Rights](https://apmdd.org/the-youth-and-debt-justice-claiming-our-rights/) - Powered By EmbedPress
- [Rallies sweep across 6 countries demanding ambitious action on coal phase out](https://apmdd.org/rallies-sweep-across-6-countries-demanding-ambitious-action-on-coal-phase-out/) - Rallies were held on September 9 in more than 70 cities and provinces in 6 Asian countries calling for an ambitious action on coal phase-out. In a coordinated wave of mobilizations for the 2025 Asia Day of Action against Coal, protesters stepped up the call to end Asia’s persistent dependence on coal and pave the
- [International Monetary Fund: Profiting from Crisis](https://apmdd.org/international-monetary-fund-profiting-from-crisis/)
- [Breaking the chains of debt: An imperative for Gender Justice](https://apmdd.org/breaking-the-chains-of-debt-an-imperative-for-gender-justice/) - Read here:
- [Infographic: We need a UN Framework Convention on Sovereign Debt](https://apmdd.org/infographic-we-need-a-un-framework-convention-on-sovereign-debt/) - FROM AMBITION TO ACTION: A CALL TO MEMBER STATESWe need a UN Framework Convention on Sovereign Debt
- [Primer on the UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation](https://apmdd.org/primer-on-the-un-framework-convention-on-international-tax-cooperation/) - This APMDD primer on the UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation is the first in a series of primers on the Convention now being negotiated and the fight for global tax justice.
- [Asia’s coal reckoning: Can it shut down the past to power the future?](https://apmdd.org/asias-coal-reckoning-can-it-shut-down-the-past-to-power-the-future/) - Lidy Nacpil (for The Jakarta Post) Asia, which is home to 78 percent of the world's coal power capacity and 80 percent of millions of coal workers, needs to make a pivotal decision to cut its umbilical to the dirty fuel and embrace renewables to ensure a sustainable future for the region. As the world
- [Asia Debt Monitor 2025 Issue #2](https://apmdd.org/asia-debt-monitor-2025-issue-2/) - Read the latest issue of the Asia Debt Monitor here:
- [Reimagining Tax Systems And Care Work](https://apmdd.org/reimagining-tax-systems-and-care-work/) - All living beings require different forms and levels of care in different contexts and spaces. The essential importance of care and the complexity of its activities poses a vital question: how can our governments equitably and effectively support care workers and ensure that all citizens are afforded the right amount of care?
- [REWRITE THE RULES! MAKE TAXES WORK FOR WOMEN! WEALTH TAX NOW FOR CLIMATE AND GENDER JUSTICE!](https://apmdd.org/rewrite-the-rules-make-taxes-work-for-women-wealth-tax-now-for-climate-and-gender-justice/) - The overrepresentation of women in the world’s poor is exacerbated by the same economic system which has rapidly destroyed the environment and is responsible for the ongoing climate catastrophe that the world is facing right now. The ongoing climate catastrophe, extreme inequality, and gender inequality are inextricably linked on the global, national, local, and household
- [APMDD at the at the High Level Feminist Event (#FfD4 in Seville, Spain)](https://apmdd.org/apmdd-at-the-at-the-high-level-feminist-event-4th-ff4d-in-seville-spain/) - Lidy Nacpil of APMDD delivers the CSO Declaration at the High Level Feminist Event, during 4th Financing for Development Conference in Seville, Spain.
- [A historic first at the Financing for Development process](https://apmdd.org/a-historic-first-at-the-financing-for-development-process/) - Civil society initiated an action at the #FfD4 venue to underscore the demand for the transformation of the international financial system. Thus far, governments of the Global North and the UN system have been quiet on specific calls for debt cancellation, wealth taxes , and the delivery of climate finance.
- [[AEN Magazine January 2025] Bangladesh’s Coal And Gas Fights: STRUGGLE FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE IN THE FACE OF GROWING ENERGY DEMANDS](https://apmdd.org/aen-magazine-january-2025-bangladeshs-coal-and-gas-fights-struggle-for-a-sustainable-future-in-the-face-of-growing-energy-demands/)
- [[AEN Magazine-July 2024] 3RD ASIA ENERGY STRATEGY MEETING CONVENED IN MANILA](https://apmdd.org/aen-magazine-july-2024-3rd-asia-energy-strategy-meeting-convened-in-manila/)
- [Race Behind 1.5 – Protest Run at Asian Development Bank HQ #ACEF2025](https://apmdd.org/race-behind-adb/) - LOOK: A protest run "Race Behind 1.5" is happening in front of Asian Development Bank Headquarters on day 2 of the Asia Clean Energy Forum (ACEF) 2025 to expose ADB"s financing of gas, waste-to-energy incinerators & destructive large infra in the guise of "clean energy." Sporting protest bibs, runners demand ADB: Commit to its 2021
- [Making Polluters and Billionaires #PayUp through Wealth Tax and Progressive Taxation](https://apmdd.org/briefer-make-polluters-billionaires-payup/)
- [Climate groups call out Japan’s dirty energy agenda on the eve of the Japan Energy Summit](https://apmdd.org/climate-groups-call-out-japans-dirty-energy-agenda-on-the-eve-of-the-japan-energy-summit/) - Climate groups gathered in front of the Japanese Embassy in Manila to condemn “Japan’s fossil fuel obsession” and its promotion of false solutions, which are endangering the climate and harming communities across Asia. The climate advocates- coming from the Philippine Movement for Climate Justice (PMCJ), Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD,) and other
- [Towards Adaptation Justice - A policy brief for UNFCCC Negotiators and Campaigners](https://apmdd.org/towards-adaptation-justice-a-policy-brief-for-unfccc-negotiators-and-campaigners/) - 2025 is a crucial year for adaptation. This September, governments will submit their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), and at COP30, governments will decide on the indicators that will form the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA) and discuss the fast-tracking of the implementation of National Adaptation Plans (NAPs). However, not all adaptation is made equal; much
- [Briefer: Just Transition in the UNFCCC](https://apmdd.org/briefer-just-transition-in-the-unfccc/) - ContextThe primary workstream where equitable and just transition is discussed and negotiated in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is the Just Transition Work Programme (JTWP). COP27 established the JTWP with the objective of developing “just transition pathways” to achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement. In COP28, Parties agreed to the
- [Public Debt: A Southern Perspective](https://apmdd.org/public-debt-a-southern-perspective/) - READ HERE:
- [Asia Debt Monitor 2025 Issue #1](https://apmdd.org/asia-debt-monitor-2025-issue-1/) - Read the latest issue of the Asia Debt Monitor here:
- [End Coal in Asia](https://apmdd.org/clean-air-climate-justice-a-livable-future/) - Join the fight to end coal and fossil fuels and ensure a fast, fair, funded, feminist and just transition to democratic, renewable energy systems for people and communities.
- [Hear the Global South: We Need Just and Transformative Outcomes from FfD4](https://apmdd.org/hear-the-global-south-we-need-just-and-transformative-outcomes-from-ffd4/) - Read and download the statement here:
- [ASEAN 2025 Open letter](https://apmdd.org/asean-2025-open-letter/) - May 26, 2025 The Honourable Dato’ Seri Anwar IbrahimPrime Minister of MalaysiaASEAN Chair 2025 Your Excellency, We address you in your capacity as ASEAN Chair for 2025. We call for an urgent and decisive response to the climate crisis. The ASEAN region is one of the most highly vulnerable regions to climate change impacts. Extreme
- [UN Tax Convention: 'From competition to collaboration, from exploitation to empowerment'](https://apmdd.org/un-tax-convention-from-competition-to-collaboration-from-exploitation-to-empowerment/) - We commend the good start this 3-6 February 2025 of intergovernmental negotiations to write the United Nations Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation (UN Tax Convention). We reiterate the calls of civil society organizations in Asia for governments to work together to deliver a UN Tax Convention that is anchored firmly on tax justice principles. A
- [End the hypocrisy and dirty tactics: UN FfD4 must deliver for the Global South!](https://apmdd.org/end-the-hypocrisy-and-dirty-tactics-un-ffd4-must-deliver-for-the-global-south/) - We, the Asian movements of the Global South, are done watching in silence as our people suffer under the weight of crises we did not create.From collapsing ecosystems to collapsing economies, our communities have been battered by a storm of climate chaos, debt distress, deepening inequality, and systemic exploitation. These crises are the direct result
- [Key UN Finance Forum Could Lead to UN Framework on Sovereign Debt; Mobilization Calls For Action](https://apmdd.org/key-un-finance-forum-could-lead-to-un-framework-on-sovereign-debt-mobilization-calls-for-action/) - 29 April 2025, New York, NY — “We want a UN Framework Convention on Sovereign Debt!”, debt and climate justice activists from the US, Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe stressed in a public action today in front of the United Nations in New York. The action was Led by Debt for Climate, Asian Peoples’
- [APMDD, PMCJ and affected communities demand accountability for the harmful impacts of WB-IFC fossil fuel financing](https://apmdd.org/apmdd-pmcj-and-affected-communities-demand-accountability-for-the-harmful-impacts-of-wb-ifc-fossil-fuel-financing/) - (April 21, 2025 | Philippines) APMDD joined the Philippine Movement for Climate Justice (PMCJ) and representatives of coal-affected communities from Bataan and Batangas in front of the World Bank office in Taguig to demand accountability for the harmful impacts of its fossil fuel financing. This action coincides with the start of the 2025 Spring Meetings
- [COP 29 Outcomes: What was decided and what's next](https://apmdd.org/cop-29-outcomes-what-was-decided-and-whats-next/)
- [APMDD mourns the passing of Anil Choudhury (Indian Social Action Forum)](https://apmdd.org/apmdd-mourns-the-passing-of-anil-choudhury-of-indian-social-action-forum/) - The Asian People's Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD) deeply mourns the passing of Anil Choudhury. APMDD extends its deepest condolences to his family and wide circle of friends, recognizing his profound and enduring commitment to building an economically equitable, socially just, and ecologically sustainable society.
- [Primer on Illegitimate Debt](https://apmdd.org/primer-on-illegitimate-debt/) - Read Here:
- [Statement of Solidarity on Malaysia Gas Explosion](https://apmdd.org/statement-of-solidarity-on-malaysia-gas-explosion/) - The Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD) expresses deep solidarity with the people of Malaysia over the gas explosion which occurred in Putra Heights, a residential area outside Kuala Lumpur, which injured more than 100 people. It was even more unfortunate that this frightening incident had to happen on the second day of
- [Solidarity Statement with the People of Thailand and Myanmar](https://apmdd.org/solidarity-statement-with-the-people-of-thailand-and-myanmar/)
- [People's Tribunal demands immediate stop to IMF and World Bank’s harmful policies – Denouncing 8 decades of destruction and calling for dismantling of these institutions](https://apmdd.org/peoples-tribunal-demands-immediate-stop-to-imf-and-world-banks-harmful-policies-denouncing-8-decades-of-destruction-and-calling-for-dismantling-of-these-institutions/) - PRESS RELEASE: 18th March, 2025, Kathmandu, Nepal The International People’s Tribunal vs. The World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF)and World Bank (WB) concluded its third hearing with demands to stop the IMF and World Bank’s harmful policies. The two-day tribunal session on March 15-16 heard witnesses testifying to decades of destruction by these institutions and called
- [World Bank on Trial: Two Day Independent People’s Tribunal on the 80th Year of World Bank Group](https://apmdd.org/world-bank-on-trial-two-day-independent-peoples-tribunal-on-the-80th-year-of-world-bank-group/) - Press Release: December 6, 2024 Kolkata: On the occasion of the World Bank Group and IMF institutions celebrating their 80th anniversary, people’s movements, trade unions, civil society organisations and concerned citizens are holding an Independent People’s Tribunal on World Bank in Kolkata on December 7 & 8, senior leaders announced at a press conference today.
- [World Bank @ 80: Radical Restructuring, Not Reforms](https://apmdd.org/worldbankat80/) - The 80th anniversary of the World Bank is a good time to bury the arguments in favor of reforming the institution and strengthen the demand for radical restructuring. The past eight decades did not witness any major reforms it undertook towards making it a more democratic institution. At best, it conceded to a few demands
- [80 years of IMF and World Bank Colonisation of the World — The Sri Lankan Experience](https://apmdd.org/imf-wbcolonisation/) - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has recently become a prominent topic in Sri Lanka due to the austerity measures it proposed to address the country’s debt crisis. These measures have increased taxes for ordinary citizens, even as the previous interim government warned that Sri Lanka would face further difficulties if it did not adhere to
- [No to more continued failings by the World Bank and IMF](https://apmdd.org/nomorecontinuedfailings/) - For 80 years, the IMF and World Bank have played a key role in the global financial system. However, both institutions have failed to provide resilience and stability to global finance. Their interventions in debt crises have often worsened social and economic inequalities. By focusing on austerity measures, promoting neoliberal economic practices, and prioritizing debt
- [Is the WB-IMF paradigm suitable for the Global South?](https://apmdd.org/wb-imfparadigm/) - The feminist movement has denounced since the 1970s and 1980s the harmful role of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (WB-IMF) in the Global South. In the 80’s, the Latin American and Caribbean, African and Asian feminist movements were strong in denouncing the connection between austerity measures and the reproduction of gender inequalities. Austerity
- [The Project of Austerity in the Global South: Four decades of eroding the social contract and resistance for paradigm transformation](https://apmdd.org/austerityintheglobalsouth/) - For over four decades, the ascendance of fiscal austerity as a multifaceted political and economic project within the larger ambit of structural adjustment has shaped the economic, political, and social realities of countries and communities across the Global South. In the context of an international financial architecture that provides little meaningful recourse for debt-distressed nations
- [World Bank and IMF — Keeping Pakistan in shackles ](https://apmdd.org/keepingpakistaninshackles/) - On 11th December 2024, while replying to a question in Pakistan’s National Assembly, the federal finance minister admitted for the first time that since 2019, and while under an International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme, gas prices increased by a record 840% and electricity tariffs rose over 110 %. Both developments contributed significantly to the unprecedented
- [The current state of the Asian Peoples' Petition on Wealth Taxation signing across Asia](https://apmdd.org/wealth-tax-sign-on/) - Wealth taxation is a practical necessity; but it is also a crucial component of tax justice. In 2022, taxes on goods and services—such as VAT, GST, and sales and excise taxes—made up an average of 48.8% of government revenues in Asia-Pacific countries. This is significantly higher than the 31.9% average in OECD-developed countries. The heavy
- [CSOs Call on China to Lead Asia’s Just Transition out of Fossil Fuels to Renewable Energy](https://apmdd.org/csos-call-on-china-to-lead-asias-just-transition-out-of-fossil-fuels-to-renewable-energy/) - In a press conference in Quezon City, leaders of movements in Asia said China is in the best position to lead the transition of developing countries to a faster rate of fossil fuel phase out being the biggest producer and supplier of RE technologies in the world, particularly solar and wind. "China is in a
- [Open Letter Requesting to Engage with TotalEnergies, ExxonMobil, Santos and ENEOS to stop the Papua LNG project](https://apmdd.org/open-letter-requesting-to-engage-with-totalenergies-exxonmobil-santos-and-eneos-to-stop-the-papua-lng-project/) - Asian People’s Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD)BankTrackCenter for Environment Law and Community Rights (CELCOR)Japan Center for a Sustainable Environment and Society (JACSES)Jubilee AustraliaMarket ForcesReclaim FinanceSolutions for Our Climate (SFOC)Urgewald Dear Shareholders of TotalEnergies, ExxonMobil, Santos and ENEOS, TotalEnergies, ExxonMobil, Santos and ENEOS Xplora Inc. (a major subsidiary of ENEOS Holdings, Inc.) are investing in
- [Contingent Liabilities in the Philippines: Uncovering Hidden Fiscal Risks](https://apmdd.org/contingent-liabilities-in-the-philippines-uncovering-hidden-fiscal-risks/)
- [Issue Brief: Public Services and the Urgency of Tax Justice for Mining-Affected Communities in the Philippines](https://apmdd.org/issue-brief-public-services-and-the-urgency-of-tax-justice-for-mining-affected-communities-in-the-philippines/) - DISCLAIMER: This paper was produced with co-funding from the European Union. Its contents are the sole responsibility of APMDD and do not necessarily reflect the views of the EU. Many communities in the Philippines suffer the disastrous effects of open-pit mining. At least 75% of mining corporations audited by the Department of Environment and Natural
- [Asia Debt Monitor 2024 Issue #2](https://apmdd.org/asia-debt-monitor-2024-issue-2/) - Read the latest issue of the Asia Debt Monitor here.
- [APMDD Briefer on Equitable and Just Transition](https://apmdd.org/briefer-equitableandjusttransition/)
- [Climate Finance 101 - A Primer on Climate Finance](https://apmdd.org/climate-finance-primer/) - Climate finance forms a huge part of climate action. Under the United Nations Framework and Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), governments in the Global North are required to provide climate finance to the peoples and communities of the Global South to finance resilience building, lowering greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and addressing the worsening losses and
- [APMDD at the #COP29 Side-Event: 'From Millions to Trillions - The Transformations Needed to Finance Climate Justice'](https://apmdd.org/apmdd-at-the-cop29-side-event-from-millions-to-trillions-the-transformations-needed-to-finance-climate-justice/) - How can we ensure climate finance reaches the communities most affected? Lidy Nacpil of the Asian Peoples' Movement on Debt and Development shared her insights as one of the key panelists at the #COP29 Side Event "From Millions to Trillions - The Transformations Needed to Finance Climate Justice."
- [APMDD at the End #COP29 Press Conference by CSOs](https://apmdd.org/apmdd-at-the-end-cop29-press-conference-by-csos/) - Happening at the #COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan (22 November 2024): APMDD Coordinator Lidy Nacpil speaks as one of the panelists at the End #COP29 Press Conference by CSOs: “We reject a bad deal! We continue to fight for reparations and adequate climate finance in trillions as grants for the Global South! "We are not begging.
- [SIDE EVENT at the #COP29 in Baku: Civil Society Equity Review 2024 Report Launch](https://apmdd.org/side-event-at-the-cop29-in-baku-civil-society-equity-review-2024-report-launch/) - The Civil Society Equity Review 2024 Report Launch was launched at the #COP29 Side Event with Lidy Nacpil as one of the panelists. The report, titled "[FAIR SHARES, FINANCE, TRANSFORMATION] Fair Shares Assessment, Equitable Fossil Fuel Phase Out, And Public Finance of a Just Global Climate Stabilization," details the profound damage caused by the Global
- [Paying Up for the Climate Debt: 'Wealthy nations are obstructing negotiations for a fair climate finance goal and why this must not be allowed to continue'](https://apmdd.org/paying-up-for-the-climate-debt-wealthy-nations-are-obstructing-negotiations-for-a-fair-climate-finance-goal-and-why-this-must-not-be-allowed-to-continue/) - APMDD Coordinator Lidy Nacpil speaks at Climate Action Network-International Press Conference "Paying Up for the Climate Debt". Civil society at #COP29 is demanding that Global North governments start paying their US$5 trillion annual climate debt for the loss and damage caused to the South by their historical responsibility for climate change. Speakers from key UNFCCC
- [APMDD at the #COP29 Palestinian Solidarity Press Conference: 'We are here not just to express our solidarity but to say this is our common fight.'](https://apmdd.org/apmdd-at-the-cop29-palestinian-solidarity-press-conference-we-are-here-not-just-to-express-our-solidarity-but-to-say-this-is-our-common-fight/) - Lidy Nacpil at the #COP29 Palestinian Solidarity Press Conference with COP29 Climate Justice Coalition, Oil Change International, Palestinian Youth Climate Negotiations Team, Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice and Climate Sirens SWANA: “We come here for one purpose, we want to save our people and planet from climate catastrophe, because we are here for our
- [APMDD at the DCJ Press Conference in #COP29: New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) must be public, grant-based, and deliver at least $5 trillion per year](https://apmdd.org/apmdd-at-the-dcj-press-conference-in-cop29-new-collective-quantified-goal-ncqg-must-be-public-grant-based-and-deliver-at-least-5-trillion-per-year/) - Claire Miranda of APMDD at the #COP29 Demand Climate Justice Press Conference: “We in the Global South are united in our demand: the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) must be public, grant-based, and deliver at least $5 trillion per year. We want the $5 trillion free from the constraints of profit-seeking investments. It should be
- [Parliamentarians launch Preliminary Findings, Global Inquiry at the COP28](https://apmdd.org/parl-call-dubai-cop28/) - Launch of Preliminary Findings, Global Inquiry: APMDD attended the Presentation to the media of the Preliminary Findings and Recommendations on the 4 main topics of the Global Inquiry by Senator Ed Markey, MP Liza Badum, MO Saber Chowdhury, Mp Rosa Galves and MP Cecilia Xarate at the COP28 in Dubai.
- [Post-2024 IMF & WB Annual Meetings: The more things change, the more things remain the same](https://apmdd.org/post-2024-imf-wb-annual-meetings/) - Read the commentary here.
- [BROCHURE: International Peoples' Tribunal vs. the IMF-World Bank](https://apmdd.org/ipt-brochure/)
- [The Pandora Papers Exposé and its Aftermath:  Inequality, Ill-gotten Wealth, and the Continuing Fight for Tax Justice ](https://apmdd.org/the-pandora-papers-expose-and-its-aftermath-inequality-ill-gotten-wealth-and-the-continuing-fight-for-tax-justice/) - In October 2021, the Pandora Papers, published by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), revealed in detail the secret financial dealings of some of the world’s elite individuals. The Papers implicated individuals and companies from countries such as Cambodia, India, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Qatar, South Korea, and the United Arab Emirates. Also included
- [Asia-wide protests slam gas expansion in the region, call on governments to hasten clean energy transition ](https://apmdd.org/asia-wide-protests-slam-gas-expansion-in-the-region-call-on-governments-to-hasten-clean-energy-transition/) - Climate campaigners held rallies in 13 cities in Asia today to protest against intensifying gas buildout in the region and to step up pressure on governments to accelerate the shift toward clean, renewable energy. Protests were held in Tokyo, Incheon, Mandaluyong, Jakarta, Chiang Mai, Hanoi, Dhaka, Delhi, Kolkata, Kathmandu, Lahore, Karachi and Colombo as part
- [PRESS RELEASE: CSOs demand a stop to IMF, World Bank’s harmful policies – Denouncing decades of destruction, as IFIs’ mark their 80th anniversary](https://apmdd.org/press-release-csos-demand-a-stop-to-imf-world-banks-harmful-policies-denouncing-decades-of-destruction-as-ifis-mark-their-80th-anniversary/) - “Stop the Harm, Reparations Now!” Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) from more than 50 countries, today rallied anew behind the call targeting the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, in the lead-up to the international financial institutions’ (IFIs) annual meetings in Washington DC. Launching the Global Days of Action against the IFIs, they decried the
- [Climate groups urge Japan Government and PM Ishiba: Don’t push for Fossil Gas and False Solutions in Asia](https://apmdd.org/climate-groups-urge-japan-government-and-pm-ishiba-dont-push-for-fossil-gas-and-false-solutions-in-asia/) - Climate advocates today, October 10, challenged the Japanese government and its newly-installed Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba to stop derailing Asia’s energy future by phasing out all of their fossil fuel investments in Asia. They said Japan must pave the way to a clean energy transition by shifting to investments in renewables, instead of continuing to
- [Statement of Solidarity with the People of Nepal](https://apmdd.org/statement-of-solidarity-with-the-people-of-nepal/) - The Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development stands in solidarity with the people of Nepal who have suffered catastrophic flash floods and landslides over the past week. Our deepest sympathies are with the families of the hundreds who have been killed, the thousands who have been displaced, and all those working tirelessly to respond
- [An Open Letter to the Honorable Foreign Minister Wang Yi and the Members of the Delegation of the People's Republic of China to the UN Summit of the Future and the 79th UN General Assembly](https://apmdd.org/unga79-china/) - We, from the civil society movements and communities in Asia, Africa, and across the Global South, are sending this open letter during the momentous event of the gathering of world leaders to forge a new international consensus on how to deliver a better present and safeguard the future, during the process of which China can
- [Debt Justice Day: Why does debt matter for climate justice?](https://apmdd.org/debt-justice-day-why-does-debt-matter-for-climate-justice/) - The webinar explored the vital connections between debt and climate justice during the Global Week of Action for Climate Finance and a Fossil-Free Future. It took place on September 18 which was the Action Day #DebtJustice for #ClimateJustice.
- [APMDD at Financing the Future: Aligning Finance with the Promise of the Paris Agreement (A Parliamentary Forum)](https://apmdd.org/apmdd-at-financing-the-future-aligning-finance-with-the-promise-of-the-paris-agreement-a-parliamentary-forum/) - New York City, NY [21 Sept 2024] – A high-level forum organized by Parliamentarians for a Fossil Free Future in coordination with the Rainforest Action Network and Asian Peoples' Movement on Debt and Development brought together influential parliamentarians, frontline leaders, UN officials, and fossil finance experts in New York City last September 21, 2024. The
- [Global Day of Action to End Coal: Thousands across Asia call for a fast and fair coal phase out  ](https://apmdd.org/global-day-of-action-to-end-coal-thousands-across-asia-call-for-a-fast-and-fair-coal-phase-out/) - Demonstrations held in 9 countries, 72 cities and provinces More than ten thousand people joined demonstrations across Asia to demand the rapid phase out of coal, kicking off a week of climate marches happening around the world explicitly calling for an end to fossil fuels worldwide and the delivery of climate finance obligations by developed
- [Philippines: Pedal for People and Planet - 4th leg](https://apmdd.org/pedal-for-people-and-planet-2022-november/) - Thousands of cycling enthusiasts, ordinary people and climate activists participated at the 4th leg of Pedal for People and Planet organized by Asian Peoples' Movement on Debt and Development. Similar actions were also held in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Nepal. (photos: Jason Valenzuela/APMDD)
- [APMDD calls on the UNGA to hold the Global North to their commitments](https://apmdd.org/in-photos-apmdd-calls-on-the-unga-to-hold-the-global-north-to-their-commitments/) - The Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD) calls on the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) to hold the Global North to their commitments to solve the world’s most pressing, interrelated challenges. We likewise call on them to place justice for Global South countries at the center of new targets to get the Sustainable
- [In photos: Green Thumbs-up for Greening BRI](https://apmdd.org/in-photos-green-thumbs-up-for-greening-bri/) - SUPPORT NEEDED! Climate and energy campaigners led by the Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee (PKRC) call for China's support in the rapid development of more renewable energy projects in the country instead of coal and gas. GREEN THUMBS UP! The Bangladesh Waterkeepers Alliance and its partner CSOs urge China to do a rapid development of renewable
- [[IN PHOTOS] Promoting global emission reductions: APMDD at the China Pavillion in #COP28](https://apmdd.org/in-photos-promoting-global-emission-reductions-apmdd-at-the-china-pavillion-in-cop28/)
- [Demand Climate Justice Opening Presscon—What is at Stake at COP28?](https://apmdd.org/demand-climate-justice-opening-presscon-what-is-at-stake-at-cop28/) - DCJ opening Presscon with the theme: What is at Stake at COP28 (Video/Photos: Jason Valenzuela/APMDD)
- [At COP28 in Dubai: Call for ceasefire in Palestine continues](https://apmdd.org/at-cop28-in-dubai-call-for-ceasefire-in-palestine-continues/) - DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Climate activists staged a protest at COP28 today calling for a ceasefire in Palestine as Israeli bombardments of Gaza resumed following the expiration of the truce. More than 400 air and ground attacks were launched in the Gaza Strip on the third day of the climate talks. At least 180
- [Global Fight to End Fossil Fuel Action at the COP28](https://apmdd.org/global-fight-to-end-fossil-fuel-action-at-the-cop28/) - Highlight photos of the Global Fight to End Fossil Fuel Action at the #COP28 on 5 Dec 2023. (Photos: Jason Valenzuela/APMDD)
- [Civil Society Groups raise serious concerns about ADB's draft Environmental and Social Framework](https://apmdd.org/civil-society-groups-raise-serious-concerns-about-adbs-recently-released-environmental-and-social-framework/) - [Manila, 25 April 2024] - Ahead of the ADB’s Annual Meeting next month, the Asian Peoples Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD) and the NGO Forum on ADB together with the Philippine Movement for Climate Justice (PMCJ) Bukluran ng Manggagawang Pilipino (BMP), Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC), Sanlakas, Oriang, K4K-QC, Zone One Tondo Organization (ZOTO),
- [Climate advocates urge Japan to stop supporting fossil fuels and promoting false solutions](https://apmdd.org/climate-advocates-urge-japan-to-stop-supporting-fossil-fuels-and-promoting-false-solutions/) - Climate advocates urged Japan to "undertake drastic measures to rapidly phase out fossil fuel investments in Asia" in line with global climate goals instead of promoting fossil gas and false technology solutions, like ammonia co-firing, in the three-day Japan Energy Summit which begins in Tokyo today, June 3. Pro-climate proponents reminded summit attendees that "False
- [Campaigners to delegates of the 19th Clean Energy Forum (ACEF): Deliver clean energy transition by 2050](https://apmdd.org/campaigners-to-delegates-of-the-19th-clean-energy-forum-acef-deliver-clean-energy-transition-by-2050/) - Climate campaigners demonstrated in front of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) headquarters today calling on the delegates to this year’s Asia Clean Energy Forum (ACEF) to enable Asia’s rapid transition to renewable energy systems by 2050. ADB, along with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Korea Energy Agency (KEA), is hosting
- [Climate activists march to U.S. Embassy to tell G7 leaders: Pay up and deliver climate finance!](https://apmdd.org/climate-activists-march-to-u-s-embassy-to-tell-g7-leaders-pay-up-and-deliver-climate-finance/) - Philippine climate activists marched to the U.S. Embassy today to call on the leaders of the Group of 7 (G7) to deliver climate finance to developing countries in anticipation of the 50th G7 Summit on June 13. The march was conducted as part of a series of protests across South and Southeast Asia and led
- [Japanese megabanks told to stop deceiving the public on climate action](https://apmdd.org/japanese-megabanks-told-to-stop-deceiving-the-public-on-climate-action/) - Climate campaigners slammed three of Japan’s megabanks for deceiving the public and their shareholders into believing that they are pursuing decarbonization policies when in fact they are financing some of the world’s biggest fossil fuel projects, most of which are found in Asia. Activists belonging to the Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development and
- [APMDD joins Climate March in New York](https://apmdd.org/apmdd-joins-climate-march-in-new-york/) - Various organizations, coalitions, NGOs and networks from several countries, including the Asian Peoples' Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD), Climate Action Network - International (CAN-I), and Demand Climate Justice (DJC), joined the Fridays For Future-led march-rally in New York City on Friday, September 20, 2024. The delegations marched in solidarity, calling on Funders, Polluters, and
- [Activists demand debt cancellation on sidelines of IMF and World Bank meetings, hold coordinated protests across Asia and in Washington DC](https://apmdd.org/activists-demand-debt-cancellation-on-sidelines-of-imf-and-world-bank-meetings-hold-coordinated-protests-across-asia-and-in-washington-dc/)
- [Letter to Governments Participating in the Global Renewables Summit](https://apmdd.org/grs2024-letter/) - We urge all governments to translate the global commitment to triple renewable energy capacity and double energy efficiency by 2030 into international, regional, and national policies and programs guided by principles that will ensure that the process and outcomes are rapid, equitable, and just. We strongly reiterate the vital principles that must be upheld in addressing
- [Smoke and Mirrors? Debt For Climate Swaps](https://apmdd.org/smoke-and-mirrors-debt-for-climate-swaps/) - Read the explainer here.
- [[AEN Magazine-June 2024] FIGHTING THE GOLIATHS OF GAS – The Philippine Experience](https://apmdd.org/aen-june-2024-special-issue/) - The fight against fossil fuels is like David fighting Goliath. People wouldn’t think that it’s possible to slay a “giant” with just a sling and stones, but the history of the anti-gas movement in the Philippines has shown that it can be done.
- [IMF-World Bank Held to Account for Toxic, Damaging Legacy](https://apmdd.org/imf-world-bank-held-to-account-for-toxic-damaging-legacy/) - Around 65 participants from all global regions joined the APMDD webinar, which focused on the particular impacts and the continuing adverse consequences of IMF and World Bank lending policies on Global South countries in Asia. Alvic Padilla, from the Debt Justice Program of APMDD, opened the webinar "IMF-WB: 8 Decades of Debt and Destruction in
- [Open Letter to AZEC Delegates 2024](https://apmdd.org/open-letter-to-azec-delegates-2024/) - To Southeast Asian Governments' Delegation to the AZEC We are writing to express the grave concerns of the Asian Peoples' Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD) about the upcoming Asian Zero Emissions Community (AZEC) Ministerial Meeting on August 20 to 21 in Jakarta, Indonesia. APMDD is a regional alliance of peoples’ movements, community organizations, coalitions,
- [Solidarity with the Struggle of the People of Bangladesh for Democratic Governance and Respect for Human Rights](https://apmdd.org/in-solidarity-with-the-people-of-bangladesh-struggle-for-democratic-governance-and-respect-for-human-rights/) - We, the Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD), reiterate our deepest solidarity with the students and people of Bangladesh as they begin to rebuild their country from the ashes of a discredited autocratic regime, towards fully democratic governance, the realization and protection of all human rights, and the establishment of an equitable and
- [Inequity and False Hope: Drawbacks of IMF's Special Drawing Rights](https://apmdd.org/inequity-and-false-hope-drawbacks-of-the-imfs-special-drawing-rights/) - Read the explainer here.
- [Gwangju Democracy Forum - APMDD highlights need for UN debt legal framework](https://apmdd.org/gwangju-democracy-forum-apmdd-highlights-need-for-un-debt-legal-framework/) - Dangerous times for the Global South More than three years after the UN declared an end to the COVID-19 pandemic, we remain in a context of increasing uncertainty and precariousness. We continue to feel spillovers and cascading effects on our societies and economies, and our very households and daily lives. The heaviest impacts are suffered
- [Statement of Solidarity with the People of Bangladesh](https://apmdd.org/statement-of-solidarity-with-the-people-of-bangladesh/) - The Asian Peoples' Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD) expresses in the strongest terms its condemnation of the violent and punitive acts of repression sweeping the capital city of Dhaka in Bangladesh. We view with great outrage reports of more than a hundred protesters dead, thousands of arbitrary arrests and detention of activists, most of
- [Conflicts of Interest – A Briefer on the World Bank's Hosting of the Loss and Damage Fund](https://apmdd.org/conflicts-of-interest-ldf-briefer/) - The first year of the Loss and Damage Fund is a critical time for civil society to intervene as the Board decides on the Fund’s policies. The World Bank’s appointment as the Fund’s interim host, an outcome of last year’s COP 28, is a threat to developing countries’ ability to receive adequate and grants-based payment
- [Family Bike Action Days held in Asia to support just transition to renewable energy](https://apmdd.org/family-bike-action-days-held-in-asia-to-support-just-transition-to-renewable-energy/) - Thousands joined family-themed biking events in several Asian countries on the weekend of May 18 and 19 as part of an Asia-wide series of "Pedal For People and Planet" that started in 2021 . Participants included students, parents, and children who signified their support for building renewable energy systems to replace fossil fuel energy to
- [Asian movements call on the 19th ACEF: The push for a rapid and just transition to clean energy must be backed by concrete and near-term timelines to phase out fossil fuels and phase in renewables](https://apmdd.org/asian-movements-call-on-the-19th-acef-the-push-for-a-rapid-and-just-transition-to-clean-energy-must-be-backed-by-concrete-and-near-term-timelines-to-phase-out-fossil-fuels-and-phase-in-renewables/) - June 3-7, 2024 We are civil society organizations and peoples’ movements across Asia campaigning for climate justice and working with communities in the frontlines of the climate crisis. We call on the clean energy experts, practitioners, policymakers, implementers and financiers who gather in Manila for the annual Asia Clean Energy Forum (ACEF) to walk their
- [Tax the Wealthy, not the Working Women!](https://apmdd.org/tax-the-wealthy-not-the-working-women/) - The call “Wealth Tax Now!” gains ground as inequality and poverty deepens in Asia and across the globe. On 8 March 2023, “Wealth Tax Now!” intersected with the demand to “Make Taxes Work for Women” in many International Women’s Day actions across the world. The Global Days of Action (GDOA) on Tax Justice for Women’s
- [Briefer On Public Debt](https://apmdd.org/briefer-on-public-debt/) - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB) are holding their annual Spring Meeting this April amidst the worsening debt crisis. An estimated 3.3 billion people are living in countries that spend more on interest payments than education or health. For eight decades, the IMF-WB have been instrumental in shaping an international financial
- [Activists across Asia hold vigils for Palestine amid Rafah massacre](https://apmdd.org/apmdd-member-organizations-and-partners-conduct-candlelight-vigil-in-solidarity-with-the-plight-of-the-palestinian-people/) - Activists in the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan, and Bangladesh held candlelight vigils today to reiterate the urgent call for an immediate ceasefire in Palestine as Israel intensifies its ground invasion of Rafah, where 1.4 million Palestinians are sheltering from Israel’s months-long bombardment of the Gaza Strip. On May 26, two days after the International Court
- [Asia Debt Monitor 2024 Issue #1](https://apmdd.org/asia-debt-monitor-2024-issue-1/) - Read the latest issue of the Asia Debt Monitor here.
- [IMF-WB Spring meetings met with protest in DC, Asian cities](https://apmdd.org/imf-wb-spring-meetings-met-with-protest-in-dc-asian-cities/) - The IMF and the World Bank (IMF-WB) held their Spring Meetings in Washington DC amidst an ever-worsening debt crisis, most harshly felt by 3.3 billion people living under governments that spend more on interest payments than education or health. For many decades until today, the IMF-WB, with the backing of rich countries, have been at
- [Guaranteeing the Constitutional Right to Education, An Agenda for Tax and Fiscal Justice: The Philippines Case](https://apmdd.org/guaranteeing-the-constitutional-right-to-education-an-agenda-for-tax-and-fiscal-justice-the-philippines-case/) - Like many countries in Asia, the Philippines struggles with a low tax-to-GDP ratio. This is compounded by massive foregone revenues from illicit financial flows (with an estimated PHP500 billion or $8.99 billion lost per year according to one conservative estimate)1 and relies heavily on indirect taxation, with Value-Added Taxation accounting for 22% of the government’s
- [TAX WEALTH NOW AND INCREASE PUBLIC FUNDING OF SOCIAL SERVICES](https://apmdd.org/tax-wealth-now-and-increase-public-funding-of-social-services/) - REWRITE THE RULES! MAKE TAXES WORK FOR WOMEN! Enforcing a wealth tax is a matter of life and justice, especially for women and children who are overrepresented in the most vulnerable and marginalized groups in society. It allows for the correction of the regressive nature of current tax systems which rely on the collection of
- [APMDD, CS FFD Mechanism stress – grants not loans to finance climate action](https://apmdd.org/apmdd-cs-ffd-mechanism-stress-grants-not-loans-to-finance-climate-action/) - Excellencies, Good morning. My name is Mae Buenaventura, working with the Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development and speaking today on behalf of the Civil Society Financing for Development Mechanism. We note with concern that little/no attention has been given to increasing lending for climate action when there should be an increase in grants,
- [Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice (DCJ) members react to the current text of the Global Stocktake at COP28](https://apmdd.org/global-campaign-to-demand-climate-justice-dcj-members-react-to-the-current-text-of-the-global-stocktake-at-cop28/) - Read the joint statement from climate justice community worldwide demanding historical polluters deliver on their commitments “COP28 is running into overtime, but your time is up to deliver climate justice” Lidy Nacpil - Asian Peoples Movement on Debt and Development “The governments of the richest countries in the world shamelessly refused to acknowledge the Global
- [Eat This, Yakee (Beta version v1.0)](https://apmdd.org/eat-this-yakee/) - Press Green flag to start, red button to stop. Embedding Game Project (Test)
- [Demanding Accountability and Reparations from the IMF - World Bank for Deepening the Debt Catastrophe ](https://apmdd.org/demanding-accountability-and-reparations-from-the-imf-world-bank-for-deepening-the-debt-catastrophe/) - The IMF and the World Bank (IMF-WB) hold their Spring Meetings amidst an ever-worsening debt crisis, most harshly felt by 3.3 billion people living under governments that spend more on interest payments than education or health. For many decades until today, the IMF-WB, with the backing of rich countries, have been at the forefront of
- [Ph Civil Society Groups Say The ‘unholy Alliance’ Of Biden, Kishida, And Marcos Endanger Climate Goals](https://apmdd.org/ph-civil-society-groups-say-the-unholy-alliance-of-biden-kishida-and-marcos-endanger-climate-goals/) - With the stage set for the trilateral meeting of US President Joe Biden, Japan Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, and Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. in Washington D.C., civil society groups in the Philippines warned the three world leaders against entering into a “dangerous, unholy alliance” to extend the life of fossil fuels under the guise
- ['Insure Our Future…Not Fossil Fuels!': Climate activists rally against Samsung, Tokio Marine Insurance for supporting fossil fuels](https://apmdd.org/climate-activists-rally-against-samsung-tokio-marine-insurance-for-supporting-fossil-fuels/) - Climate campaigners staged a rally in Makati City's business district on March 1, 2024 to call on big insurance companies to stop insuring and underwriting fossil fuel projects. The activists demanded that the top insurers end their support for coal, oil and gas companies which are the culprits behind the climate crisis. The climate groups
- [Climate campaigners call on China to lead in building 100% Renewable Energy in Asia](https://apmdd.org/climate-campaigners-call-on-china-to-lead-in-building-100-renewable-energy-in-asia/) - Climate campaigners carrying giant “Ang Pao” (Chinese money envelopes) held a march-rally at the Fil-Chinese Friendship Arch in Binondo, Manila on Saturday, February 10, to celebrate the Dragon Lunar New Year and called on China to lead in building 100% renewable energy systems in Asia, particularly solar and wind. The march-rally was led by Philippine
- [Fossil fuel debts are illegitimate and must be cancelled](https://apmdd.org/fossil-fuel-debts-are-illegitimate-and-must-be-cancelled/) - Many countries in the Global South are burdened with huge public debts. These rising debts are a drain to public resources that are urgently needed for sustainable development programs, and further pressure Southern governments to prioritize debt service over climate actions. Global South countries allocate more funds for debt service – 65% in lower income
- [Financing For the Top 20 Upstream Oil and Gas Expanders](https://apmdd.org/financing-for-the-top-20-upstream-oil-and-gas-expanders/) - The Global Oil & Gas Exit List shows that upstream oil and gas expansion is remarkably concentrated: the top 20 companies are responsible for more than half of resources under development and spending on exploration for new reserves. Bank support for those companies is also remarkably concentrated: the top 10 bankers of those top 20 companies are
- [Revenue-eroding Tax Reforms Vis-à-vis the Right to Health in the Philippines](https://apmdd.org/revenue-eroding-tax-reforms-vis-a-vis-the-right-to-health-in-the-philippines/) - This joint stakeholders’ report was submitted for the 4th Cycle of the Universal Periodic Review of the Philippines. It specifically draws attention to new tax laws that negatively impact human rights, especially the right to health under the ICESCR. The submission was prepared by the Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development and two members
- [MAKE TAX WORK FOR THE POOR](https://apmdd.org/make-tax-work-for-the-poor/) - The Need for Progressive Reforms in Domestic Revenue Mobilization in Nepal This report is aims at bringing to the fore the regressive nature of the taxation system in Nepal and the grave concerns of fiscal indiscipline, including the issues of policy corruption, avoidance and evasion, associated with taxation in Nepal. Challenging the narrative that the
- [Can the OECD Author an Equitable International Tax Architecture?](https://apmdd.org/can-the-oecd-author-an-equitable-international-tax-architecture/) - A UN Tax Convention should establish an intergovernmental body with a Secretariat and decision making Conference of Parties to harmonize the work of the various organizations setting international tax rules. Part I of this paper briefly summarizes the history of double tax treaties and the conceptualization of a global tax authority. Part II discusses the
- [Statement on the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bankers meeting 2024](https://apmdd.org/statement-ahead-of-g20-finance-ministers-and-central-bankers-meeting-2024/) - The people and communities of the Global South are suffering multiple crises, made worse by global rule makers that favor corporate interests over the needs of people and the planet. The Group of 20 (G20) countries — and the handful of Group of 7 (G7) countries that control it — impose these rules and false
- [APMDD at the Green Horizons: South-South Cooperation in Renewable Energy Forum 2024](https://apmdd.org/apmdd-at-the-green-horizons-south-south-cooperation-in-renewable-energy-forum-2024/) - APMDD at the Green Horizons: South-South Cooperation in Renewable Energy Forum 2024 in Hainan, China held on March 26-27, 2024. #GreenHorizons2024 #sustainablefuture
- [Farewell to Sreedhar Ramamurthi](https://apmdd.org/farewell-to-r-sreedhar-ramamurthi/)
- [Pakistan campaigners call for reparations; demands top insurers to end their support for coal, oil and gas companies](https://apmdd.org/pakistan-campaigners-calls-for-reparations-demands-top-insurers-to-end-their-support-for-coal-oil-and-gas-companies/)
- [We stand with the People of Palestine! We stand for Justice, Human Rights and Freedom!](https://apmdd.org/we-stand-with-the-people-of-palestine-we-stand-for-justice-human-rights-and-freedom/) - Download the PDF here As movements fighting against systems of injustice that view black, brown and indigenous peoples as disposable, to be sacrificed by racist and colonial systems of exploitation and domination, we see the struggle of the Palestinian people against occupation and apartheid as part and parcel of our collective struggle for climate, racial,
- [AEN Issue No. 2: Jan to Jun 2022](https://apmdd.org/aen-issue-no-2-now-available/) - Click to view/download PDF INSIDE HIGHLIGHTS: Thousands of bikers joined climate activists in coordinated biking events held in nine Asian countries Climate campaigners celebrate Tiger Lunar New Year in the Philippines calling for a total exit from coal and the rapid development of renewable energy systems in Asia Climate campaigners step up pressure on Japanese
- [AEN Magazine-Maiden Issue (May 2021)](https://apmdd.org/aen-magazine-maiden-issue-may-2021/) - Download PDF here
- [COP28 Global Parliamentarians Inquiry into the Progress of Fossil Fuels Phase Out](https://apmdd.org/cop28-global-parliamentarians-inquiry-into-the-progress-of-fossil-fuels-phase-out/) - COP28 CSO Monitoring: Global Parliamentarians Inquiry into the Progress of Fossil Fuels Phase Out at the Parliamentary Pavillion of CSO Hub
- [APMDD and DCJ – Food & Land for People and Planet Action at the COP28](https://apmdd.org/apmdd-and-dcj-food-and-land-for-people-and-planet-action-at-the-cop28/)
- [Climate campaigners score Japan’s Energy Push on the eve of Tokyo Summit](https://apmdd.org/climate-campaigners-score-on-japans-energy-push-on-the-eve-of-tokyo-summit/) - Climate campaigners urge Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to “demonstrate climate leadership” by putting Japan’s money where it should be - investing in renewable energy instead of promoting more fossil fuel projects and false solutions under the guise of “decarbonizing Asia.” Activists held several coordinated mobilizations in the Philippines and several Asian cities today on
- [Parliamentarians present Latin America reports and 2024 project at the COP28 in Dubai](https://apmdd.org/parliamentarians-present-latin-america-reports-and-2024-project-at-the-cop28-in-dubai/) - IN PHOTOS: Presentation of Latin America reports and 2024 project "Parliamentarians for a fossil-free Amazon" - Highlights of Results of the Colombia and Mexico National Inquiries presented and initial presentation of the planned "Parliamentarians for a fossil-free Amazon" at COP 28 Colombia Pavilion in Dubai.
- [Reaping Freedom: A Briefer on Food Sovereignty](https://apmdd.org/reaping-freedom-a-briefer-on-food-sovereignty/) - To respond to the food and climate crises, no less than a complete rejection of false solutions and a radical reconstruction of the current global food system are necessary. This Q&A briefer aims to equip readers with the tools to understand food sovereignty as a critical part of food and climate justice.
- [FALSE HOPE: A briefer on False Solutions in Food and Climate](https://apmdd.org/false-hope-food-solutions-briefer/) - This Q&A briefer aims to provide readers with basic information and analysis on false solutions in food and agriculture and how it relates to our demand for climate justice.
- [Statement on International Women’s Day 2024](https://apmdd.org/statement-on-international-womens-day-2024/) - We stand in solidarity with women struggling to survive amid poverty, conflict, and disasters while bearing the responsibility of unpaid care work. On International Women’s Day, we reaffirm our commitment to fighting the multiple, compounding crises that exacerbate existing gender inequalities. As governments cut social spending, women risk health and well-being by filling the gaps
- [Unpacking the Green Climate Fund - A Climate Finance Briefer](https://apmdd.org/unpacking-gcf/) - The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is the flagship climate finance mechanism under the United Nations Framework and Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). More than just a mechanism, it impacts the lives and livelihoods of the peoples and communities of the Global South, as well how finance is integral towards limiting average global temperature rise below
- [What is to be done? A guide for to reviewing GCF Funding Proposals](https://apmdd.org/gcf-proposal-guide/) - The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is a complicated climate finance mechanism yet it affects the daily lives of the peoples and communities of the Global South, specifically through the projects that it approves. This briefer is a guide on how peoples and communities of the Global South can examine funding proposals and projects approved by
- [Towards a People's Agenda on Climate Finance](https://apmdd.org/peoples-agenda-on-climate-finance/) - Those responsible for the climate crisis must provide the necessary finance to solve it. Hence, the urgent, unconditional, and adequate delivery of non-debt-creating climate finance through UNFCCC climate finance mechanisms by Global North governments takes centerstage in the peoples' agenda for climate justice.This briefer outlines the demands and fights that must be won in the
- [5 Questions: Voices from the Global South](https://apmdd.org/5-questions-voices-from-the-global-south/) - Debt justice and debt cancellation are key to the fulfillment of Global South women’s rights WE ARE IN A WORSENING AND UNPARALLELED DEBT CRISIS.For Global South governments, they are shifting funds away from public spending and pouring the biggest shares of their revenues and budgets in debt service payments. As interest rates rise and the
- [Asia-wide protests resist Japan and G7’s push for gas and false solutions in the region](https://apmdd.org/asia-wide-protests-resist-japan-and-g7s-push-for-gas-and-false-solutions-in-the-region/) - Climate campaigners held rallies in 12 cities this week to protest against Japan and the G7’s continued promotion of fossil gas and technologies that they say will only prolong fossil fuel use. The protests happened ahead of the G7 Leaders Summit scheduled on May 19-21 in Hiroshima, Japan. “Japan and the rest of the G7
- [Asia’s gas expansion will not solve the climate and energy crises](https://apmdd.org/asias-gas-expansion-will-not-solve-the-climate-and-energy-crises/) - By Lidy Nacpil Governments and fossil fuel companies have been pushing the expansion of gas energy as a solution to the energy crisis and energy poverty, and justifying gas as a transition fuel out of coal. The fact is, gas is a fossil fuel as harmful as coal, and renewable energy is a safe, affordable
- [We demand financing for Reparations, Justice and Equity towards building a better, more equitable and sustainable world ](https://apmdd.org/we-demand-financing-for-reparations-justice-and-equity-towards-building-a-better-more-equitable-and-sustainable-world-2/) - In the midst of multiple crises, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank hold their Spring meetings with an agenda that still revolves around the expansion of borrowings and the privileging of private investors and corporations as responses to the defining challenges of our times – the development crisis and the state of climate
- [Why I think the US is the biggest bully and blocker of climate action](https://apmdd.org/why-i-think-the-us-is-the-biggest-bully-and-blocker-of-climate-action/) - United States President Joe Biden was notably absent at the recent United Nations Secretary-General’s Climate Ambition Summit on 20 September held in New York. With two months left until the global climate talks called COP28, the summit was an important space for world leaders to bring their ambitious and concrete plans to fight climate change. President
- [COP28 Coalition calls for permanent ceasefire in Gaza](https://apmdd.org/cop28-coalition-calls-for-permanent-ceasefire-in-gaza-2/) - (Originally published in Khaleej Times (published Thu 30 Nov 2023) by Angel Tesorero; Video clip courtesy of Khaleej Times) Standing in solidarity with the people of Palestine, a global network of climate justice and human rights organisations, has called for a permanent ceasefire and scaling up of humanitarian aid in Gaza, on day 1 of
- [INFOGRAPHIC: G20 Finance leaders upbeat about recovery, but recovery for whom?](https://apmdd.org/infographic-g20-finance-leaders-upbeat-about-recovery-but-recovery-for-whom-3-ways-corporations-won-and-more-ways-the-poor-lost-in-the-rigged-race-for-bailoutsinfographic/)
- [Asia-wide bike rides call on rich nations to do their fair share for climate change](https://apmdd.org/asia-wide-bike-rides-call-on-rich-nations-to-do-their-fair-share-for-climate-change/) - More than one thousand Filipino cyclists participated in this year’s second Pedal for People and Planet (PPP) held in Quezon City today. They joined climate campaigners in a 16-km loop ride from Quezon City Hall to call on rich nations to pay their fair share of the global climate action. Bike rides were also held
- [APMDD holds Asian Conference on Equitable and Just Transition](https://apmdd.org/apmdd-holds-asian-conference-on-equitable-and-just-transition/) - Many trade unions and peoples movements have made significant gains developing frameworks and asserting demands for a just transition. However there is still much to be done to strengthen and advance efforts to develop perspectives, principles and agendas based on the conditions in the Global South and from the vantage point of Southern movements seeking system
- [Video: APMDD at the COP28 China Pavilion](https://apmdd.org/video-apmdd-at-the-cop28-china-pavilion/) - Lidy Nacpil speaking as one of the panelists in discussing on how CSOs and Enterprises can collaborate to contribute to Carbon Emission Reduction (China Pavillion, COP28 Dubai)
- [Climate Justice Assembly held in Bangladesh](https://apmdd.org/climate-justice-assembly-held-in-bangladesh/) - People’s movements and organizations gathered together on November 17-18, 2023 for a Climate Justice Assembly with the theme “Advancing Peoples’ Action Towards Just and Equitable Transition in Bangladesh.” The Assembly is participated by more than 700 community leaders and representatives from the fishers, farmers, workers, women, indigenous peoples, and the youth, from the coast and
- [The peoples and communities of Asia and the Global South demand: NO MORE BULLYING, LIES, AND DECEPTION! DELIVER YOUR OBLIGATIONS TO THE GLOBAL SOUTH! CLIMATE FINANCE NOW!](https://apmdd.org/the-peoples-and-communities-of-asia-and-the-global-south-demand-no-more-bullying-lies-and-deception-deliver-your-obligations-to-the-global-south-climate-finance-now/) - Rather than delivering long-overdue and much-needed finance for climate action, the US government has repeatedly denied liability for reparations, continually funded fossil fuels, advanced unjust climate finance arrangements, and kept its climate finance pledges unfulfilled. This coming Second Pledging Conference of the Green Climate Fund on October 5, and 4th and last Transitional Committee Meeting
- [APMDD members in India poised to launch campaigns calling for tax and fiscal policies that benefit women and children](https://apmdd.org/apmdd-members-in-india-poised-to-launch-campaigns-calling-for-tax-and-fiscal-policies-that-benefit-women-and-children/) - Members of the Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development in India are set to launch campaigns to call for increased government subsidies for health care, press for a portion of taxes to be used for the welfare of women and children, and demand fewer taxes on fishing gear. They will also launch a social
- [In Photos: APMDD asia-wide mobilisations demanding finance for reparations, justice, and equity](https://apmdd.org/in-photos-apmdd-call-on-the-governments-of-participating-countries-in-the-paris-summit-for-reparations/) - On the first day of the Paris Summit for a New Global Financing Pact protests were held by peoples movements and in seven major cities in Asia. Protesters gathered in city landmarks and in front of the French embassy in Dhaka, New Delhi, Jakarta, Lahore, Kathmandu, Colombo and Manila. Peoples’ movements in the Global South
- [IMF, Hands Off Sri Lanka!](https://apmdd.org/imf-hands-off-sri-lanka/) - WE CONDEMN the strongarm tactics deployed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to force Sri Lanka to cooperate with the OECD’s illegitimate Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) framework. We stand with the people of Sri Lanka in opposing the IMF’s oppressive “bailout,” and we uphold their sovereign right to impose taxes where profits are made from
- [Asia-wide protests kick off historic climate marches](https://apmdd.org/asia-wide-protests-kick-off-historic-climate-marches/) - More than 20K join protests across Asia to end fossil fuels650 mobilizations against fossil fuels are planned around the world, expected to draw millions between September 15-17 More than twenty thousand people took to the streets today in 10 Asian countries to demand a rapid, just and equitable end to fossil fuels. The Asian mobilizations
- [Asia Days of Action for Tax Justice 18-22 September 2023](https://apmdd.org/asia-days-of-action-for-tax-justice-18-22-september-2023/) - In a world marked by escalating crises, worsening inequalities, austerity, and failures of fiscal and tax systems, this year’s Asia Days of Action for Tax Justice is a resounding call to address the pressing global challenges that have disproportionately impacted the peoples of the Global South, particularly in Asia. The next few days will underscore
- [Cancel Nepal’s debt – Asian people’s groups](https://apmdd.org/cancel-nepals-debt-asian-peoples-groups/) - MANILA, 14 May 2015 – An Asian civil society alliance and its partners today called for the cancellation of all of Nepal’s debts in the aftermath of two strong earthquakes that struck the country. “We stand in solidarity with our colleagues and the rest of the Nepal in these critical moments. We ask governments, international financial
- [Total and Unconditional Debt Cancellation for Nepal!](https://apmdd.org/total-and-unconditional-debt-cancellation-for-nepal/) - The Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD), its member organizations, its colleagues in the Jubilee South network, and its partners in the international community stand together with the people of Nepal as they struggle to survive in the aftermath of the April 25 and May 12 earthquakes and deal with unimaginable devastation, suffering
- [Cancel Nepal’s debt – Nepali, Asian people’s groups](https://apmdd.org/cancel-nepals-debt-nepali-asian-peoples-groups/) - KATHMANDU, 24 June 2015 – Civil society alliances around the world reiterated the call for the cancelation of Nepal's entire debt, ahead of tomorrow's International Conference on Nepal's Reconstruction 2015. :If governments, international financial institutions, international banks, and other lenders truly stand in solidarity with Nepal, they must immediately, totally, and unconditionally cancel the country's
- [Philippines | Global Day of Action for Debt, Climate and Economic Justice](https://apmdd.org/philippines-global-day-of-action-for-debt-climate-and-economic-justice/) - The Global Day of Action for Debt, Climate and Economic Justice was held on October 12, 2023, as part of the Global Week of Action for Debt, Climate and Economic Justice (GWoA). The GWoA is series of actions and events by civil society calling for the IMF-World Bank and governments to heed the call for
- [Position Paper on Debt for We20: A Peoples' Summit on G20](https://apmdd.org/position-paper-on-debt-for-we20-a-peoples-summit-on-g20/)
- [Inequality, Tax Justice, and the Philippine Wealth Tax Campaign](https://apmdd.org/inequality-tax-justice-and-the-philippine-wealth-tax-campaign/) - Download the Inequality, Tax Justice and the Philippine Wealth Tax Campaign | Monograph pdf version here: Read the Monograph on the UP CIDS website
- [Make Multinationals Pay Their Share, Rewrite Global Tax Rules](https://apmdd.org/make-multinationals-pay-their-share-rewrite-global-tax-rules/) - This Thursday (9 November), the Global Alliance for Tax Justice (GATJ) started the international conference “Tax and extractives: Make multinational corporations pay their share, rewrite global tax rules” – organised together with its regional networks Tax and Fiscal Justice Asia (TAFJA) and Canadians for Tax Fairness (C4TF), and member Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD). Taking place
- [CSO leaders call to support UN Tax Convention, end corporate tax abuses, and reject OECD’s Tax Agenda](https://apmdd.org/cso-leaders-call-to-support-un-tax-convention-end-corporate-tax-abuses-and-reject-oecds-tax-agenda/) - Support for a UN Convention on inclusive and effective tax cooperation resounded in an international conference on tax justice here as the Convention is being deliberated at the UN. Independent experts and CSO leaders from the Philippines, Indonesia, Zambia, Argentina, Canada and other parts of the world, said that profit shifting and illicit financial flows
- [APMDD's Message for International Women's Day 2022](https://apmdd.org/apmdds-message-for-international-womens-day-2022/)
- [APMDD's Statement on the 2022 IMF-WB Spring Meetings](https://apmdd.org/apmdds-statement-on-the-2022-imf-wb-spring-meetings/) - Another meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank has come and gone, and with predictable responses to the multiple crises of economic recession, public health and climate change – limited in scope and scale, short-term and even more debt-creating. Conditions have grown more severe as the Ukraine-Russia conflict rages, on top of
- [APMDD Statement on International Youth Day, August 12, 2022](https://apmdd.org/apmdd-statement-on-international-youth-day-august-12-2022/) - The Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development stands in solidarity with the youth of Asia and the rest of the world who are engaged in many struggles to resist tyranny, end inequalities and fight for just, equitable, fair societies compatible with the health of the planet. Amidst the multiple crises of climate, economy, and
- [Days of Solidarity Actions with the People of Sri Lanka and Pakistan](https://apmdd.org/days-of-solidarity-actions-with-the-people-of-sri-lanka-and-pakistan/) - In the streets, your homes, workplaces, wherever you are — join us on September 7 and 9 for a Days of Solidarity Actions with the Sri Lankan and Pakistani people. Watch out for more details in the coming days. #SolidarityWithSriLanka #SolidarityWithPakistan
- [APMDD and FIA’s call amidst the climate crisis: Defend our rights to food, land, and water!](https://apmdd.org/apmdd-and-fias-call-amidst-the-climate-crisis-defend-our-rights-to-food-land-and-water/) - People and civil society organizations around the world have been raising alarm over the worsening food crisis. Since the outbreak of the pandemic, food-poor people have increased by 112 million more, bringing the total number of those who could not afford healthy diets to 3.1 billion in 2020. In 2021, 31.9 percent of women worldwide
- [Statement of solidarity with Indonesian civil society](https://apmdd.org/statement-of-solidarity-with-indonesian-civil-society/) - We, the Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD) stand in solidarity with the Indonesian people who are being deprived of their rights to free speech and assembly at a time when G20 governments urgently need to hear voices of people most impacted by the multiple economic, health and climate crises. G20 leaders arrive
- [To Governments at the COP27 and the G20 Summit: Deliver actions on climate and economic justice!](https://apmdd.org/eliminate-your-fears-and-doubts-about-city/) - As COP27 and the G20 Summit begin to wind down, the updates so far are filled with news of scant outcomes and lack of agreement on key issues. World leaders and decision-makers assembled at these two important spaces to respond to the escalating global crises have a huge responsibility to deliver meaningful and tangible outcomes
- [Solidarity with the people of Turkey and Syria affected by the massive earthquakes](https://apmdd.org/solidarity-with-the-people-of-turkey-and-syria-affected-by-the-massive-earthquakes/) - We express our deepest solidarity with the people and communities affected by the powerful earthquakes that shook Turkey and Syria on February 6, the deadliest natural disaster seen worldwide in recent history. According to AFAD, the Disaster and Emergency Management Organization of Turkey, more than 9,000 aftershocks have hit the region since that day. More
- [Beyond Austerity: Rethinking IMF Programs in Sri Lanka and Pakistan](https://apmdd.org/beyond-austerity-rethinking-imf-programs-in-sri-lanka-and-pakistan/)
- [TWIN CRISES: Food & Climate](https://apmdd.org/twin-crises-food-climate/) - The climate crisis poses the greatest threat to food availability in Asia, and exacerbates the ongoing food crisis. The twin crises have already affected the livelihoods of millions of small food producers, 60% of which are women.
- [Asia Debt Monitor 2022 Issue #3](https://apmdd.org/asia-debt-monitor-2022-issue-3/) - The Asia Debt Monitor is an e-publication of the Asian Peoples' Movement on Debt and Development. Previous Issues: Issue #1 Issue #2
- [Asia Debt Monitor 2023 Issue #1](https://apmdd.org/asia-debt-monitor-2023-issue-1/) - The Asia Debt Monitor is an e-publication of the Asian Peoples' Movement on Debt and Development.
- [IMF-World Bank Spring Meetings: Pursuing false solutions to the debt catastrophe](https://apmdd.org/imf-world-bank-spring-meetings-pursuing-false-solutions-to-the-debt-catastrophe/) - STATEMENT ON THE 2023 IMF-WB SPRING MEETINGS The current political turmoil in Pakistan adds another layer of misery to millions of people in this debt-trapped country. For Sri Lanka, the relative calm on the surface may be short-lived as it embarks on the hard road of austerity charted by the International Monetary Fund. As feared,
- [An Open Letter to the G7: No more false debt solutions!](https://apmdd.org/an-open-letter-to-the-g7-no-more-false-debt-solutions/) - An Open Letter to the Governments of the Group of Seven States on the occasion of their 49th Summit, Hiroshima, Japan No more false debt solutions! Excellencies, As you, leaders of seven of the world’s richest countries convene for your 49th summit, many Asian countries of the Global South are gripped more tightly than ever
- [Asia Debt Monitor 2023 Issue #2](https://apmdd.org/asia-debt-monitor-2023-issue-2/) - Read the latest issue of the Asia Debt Monitor here.
- [Message of solidarity with the Moroccan people](https://apmdd.org/message-of-solidarity-with-the-moroccan-people/) - We, the Asian Peoples' Movement on Debt and Development express our deepest solidarity with the people in Morocco reeling from the September 8 quake that has claimed an estimated 2200 lives thus far and injured countless others. APMDD joins the growing international call to raise the humanitarian support that the Moroccan people urgently need. This
- [APMDD reaction to the outcome of the Fourth Meeting of the Transitional Committee on Loss and Damage Fund](https://apmdd.org/apmdd-ldf-oct21/) - PRESS RELEASE: October 21, 2023 In the early hours of the morning on October 21, the Fourth Meeting of the Transitional Committee preparing proposals for COP 28 on the Loss and Damage Fund ended without arriving at consensus on any recommendations. This was supposed to be the last meeting of the Transitional Committee. Instead they
- [In photos: More than 3K joined the rally in Manila to end fossil fuels](https://apmdd.org/in-photos-more-than-3k-joined-the-rally-in-manila-to-end-fossil-fuels/) - More than twenty thousand people took to the streets today in 10 Asian countries to demand a rapid, just and equitable end to fossil fuels. The Asian mobilizations kicked off historic climate marches happening around the world this week. Millions are expected to join more than 650 climate marches and actions planned between September 15
- [APMDD Statement on the 78th UN General Assembly ](https://apmdd.org/apmdd-statement-on-the-78th-un-general-assembly/) - We Demand Debt, Economic, and Climate Justice for the Global South September 18 to 26, 2023 The Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD) calls on the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) to hold the Global North to their commitments to solve the world’s most pressing, interrelated challenges. We likewise call on them to
- [400+ Actions to End Fossil Fuels Planned Around the World](https://apmdd.org/400-actions-to-end-fossil-fuels-planned-around-the-world/) - Millions are expected to take to the streets to demand a rapid, just, and equitable end to fossil fuels. September 11, 2023: With less than one week to go, the Global Fight to End Fossil Fuels has registered over 400 actions, marches, rallies, and events around the world. These mobilisations against fossil fuels are coordinated
- [Protest actions held across Asia ahead of G20 summit](https://apmdd.org/protest-actions-held-across-asia-ahead-of-g20-summit/) - PRESS RELEASE: Climate campaigners and frontline communities in the Global South call for debt, economic and climate justice SEPTEMBER 8, 2023: Protest actions were held in key cities in six Asian countries today ahead of the 2023 summit of leaders from the Group of 20 (G20) major economies. Rallies were held in Makati, Jakarta, Dhaka, Kathmandu,
- [Reaction to the G20 2023 Leaders’ Declaration](https://apmdd.org/reaction-to-the-g20-2023-leaders-declaration/) - The phasing out of fossil fuels is a key climate goal. Our shared future is being condemned to catastrophic climate change with the G20 failing to agree to a phase-out of fossil fuels. The G20 Summit has also once again failed to go beyond its ineffectual response to the global debt problem Lidy Nacpil, APMDD coordinator,
- [Critical Crossroads: Advancing Reparations through the Loss and Damage Fund](https://apmdd.org/ldbriefer/) - In this briefer, the basics of Loss and Damage are explored, as well as the questions and answers regarding the principles and demands of the peoples and communities of the Global South on the Loss and Damage Fund and Loss and Damage Finance, in general
- [Asian alliance slams weak UN development finance deal](https://apmdd.org/asian-alliance-slams-weak-un-development-finance-deal/) - MANILA, 17 July 2015 – The Asian Peoples' Movement on Debt and Development criticized the agreement from the third United Nations Financing for Development (FFD) summit in Ethiopia, which concluded yesterday. :The outcome document is riddled with contradictions, reflecting the nature of the FFD process as a contestation between different paradigms and interests. Important passages
- [Rewrite the Rules! Fight Inequality, Fight for a Wealth Tax for Gender Justice](https://apmdd.org/rewrite-the-rules-fight-inequality-fight-for-a-wealth-tax-for-gender-justice/) - Download the PDF here: Issue Brief Wealth Tax and Gender Justice WEALTH AND INCOME INEQUALITY IN ASIAInequality in many countries in Asia persists as a social ill that requires immediate and sustainable solutions. Though the region saw a decrease in income inequality from 1993-2019, the level of income inequality continues to be almost twice the
- [Challenges to the Notion of Aid Effectiveness](https://apmdd.org/challenges-to-the-notion-of-aid-effectiveness/) - This September 2 to 4, the "Third High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness" will be held in Accra, Ghana. This meeting will bring together ministers from over 100 countries, and heads of bilateral and international financial institutions from around the world. We join our voices with other movements and civil society organizations that have expressed issues
- [A Call For Total And Unconditional Debt Cancellation For Pakistan!](https://apmdd.org/a-call-for-total-and-unconditional-debt-cancellation-for-pakistan/) - The Jubilee South-Asia/Pacific Movement on Debt and Development (JS-APMDD) joins the international community in expressing deep solidarity with the people of Pakistan who continue to suffer from the devastating floods that has so far claimed more than a thousand lives, left four million people homeless and damaged 7.9 million acres of farmland and other economic
- [Solidarity Actions Needed for the People of Pakistan!](https://apmdd.org/solidarity-actions-needed-for-the-people-of-pakistan/) - The whole nation of Pakistan continues to reel from devastating impacts of the unprecedented disaster that hit the country over a month ago. The responses thus far from the international community are far from adequate and, in the case of the IMF, World Bank and ADB, even deplorable. These institutions have chosen to offer more
- [Global Week of Action on Debt and IFIs, Oct 8-16, 2011: Break the Chains of Debt!](https://apmdd.org/global-week-of-action-on-debt-and-ifis-oct-8-16-2011-break-the-chains-of-debt/) - The system of debt continues to devastate the lives of people around the world. People in the South face the daily impacts and consequences of the financial indebtedness of their countries, which far from having been "relieved" is growing in step with the crisis and the pursuit of extraordinary profits by the most concentrated forms
- [JSAPMDD's Activities in April 2012](https://apmdd.org/jsapmdds-activities-in-april-2012/) - JSAPMDD is organizing a series of activities this April to tackle crucial issues on water, climate, taxes and gender concerns. JSAPMDD is organizing a series of activities this April to tackle crucial issues on water, climate, taxes and gender concerns. From April 19-22, JSAPMDD will join the Association for Women’s Rights and Development (AWID) in
- [September 15 -17 With Occupy Wall Street: Stop financial speculation on food and climate](https://apmdd.org/september-15-17-with-occupy-wall-street-stop-financial-speculation-on-food-and-climate/) - The fight of Occupy Wall Street is the struggle of all movements in the world. Finance capital, that created the crisis in 2008, has increased its power instead of being disciplined. At present, world GDP is 64 trillion US dollars while the derivatives market reached the incredible figure of 1,500 trillion US dollars in 2011.
- [Killing people, killing the planet: WTO found guilty by peoples’ court](https://apmdd.org/killing-people-killing-the-planet-wto-found-guilty-by-peoples-court/) - To the chant of “guilty, guilty, guilty!”, a “peoples’ tribunal” indicted the World Trade Organization yesterday for the “systematic violation of human rights, massive destruction of livelihoods and the environment, privatization and commodification of the commons and the violation of international law”. The court specifically held to account and answer for widespread damages, private entities
- [JSPAMDD at the Global Week of Action to End WTO](https://apmdd.org/jspamdd-at-the-global-week-of-action-to-end-wto/) - JSAPMDD held two workshops as part of the week-long activities of the Social Movements for an Alternative Asia and the Indonesian National Coalition against Neoliberalism and Imperialism/Gerak Lawan which were timed with the 9th Ministerial of the World Trade Organization in Bali, Indonesia. The Global Week of Action from December 1-6, 2013 brought together peoples'
- [Asia holds tax justice assembly; Asian Tax Justice Network formed](https://apmdd.org/asia-holds-tax-justice-assembly-asian-tax-justice-network-formed/) - Uniting on a commitment to work and promote common advocacies and campaigns on tax and fiscal justice Last September 1-2, 58 participants from social movements, people’s organizations, coalitions, unions and NGOs from different Asian regions formed the Asia Tax Justice Network. The pioneering move was inspired by a commitment to work and promote common advocacies
- [On World Public Services Day, 23 June 2015: Tax Justice towards the enjoyment of our basic human rights!](https://apmdd.org/on-world-public-services-day-23-june-2015-tax-justice-towards-the-enjoyment-of-our-basic-human-rights/) - On June 23 we mark World Public Services Day to call attention to millions of peoples in Asia living in conditions of impoverishment and deprivation. Many of them are without even the most essential services such as water and health that are required to have decent and humane lives. Many Asian governments have resorted to
- [Asian movements push for global tax body](https://apmdd.org/asian-movements-push-for-global-tax-body/) - MANILA, June 29, 2015 – Asian movements are joining the global call for governments to demand the establishment of a global tax body at the ongoing negotiations in the UN Financing for Development process, which will culminate in a conference in Ethiopia next month. “Civil society groups in Asia are criticizing the United States and
- [Asian groups urge a “no” vote in Greek referendum](https://apmdd.org/asian-groups-urge-a-no-vote-in-greek-referendum/) - MANILA, 3 July 2015 – In solidarity with the Greek people and government, an Asian alliance of social movements and organizations stated their support for the call for a "no" vote in this Sunday's historic referendum. "We and many other peoples of the global south share the struggle of the people of Greece against​ ​illegitimate
- [In solidarity with the Greek people: “No” to neo-liberal austerity and illegitimate debts!](https://apmdd.org/in-solidarity-with-the-greek-people-no-to-neo-liberal-austerity-and-illegitimate-debts/) - The Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD) salutes the people of Greece for decisively choosing to break the chains of austerity and debt. In a historic referendum yesterday, July 5, over 60% of voters said “No” to stronger austerity measures imposed by the “troika” – the International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank and
- [In Solidarity with Struggle of the People of Greece against Illegitimate Debt and Neoliberal, Inhuman Economic Impositions](https://apmdd.org/in-solidarity-with-struggle-of-the-people-of-greece-against-illegitimate-debt-and-neoliberal-inhuman-economic-impositions/) - We in the Asian Peoples Movement on Debt and Development stand in solidarity with the Greek people as they struggle against the harsh loan conditions recently imposed by the European Union in exchange for a new debt deal. The EU’s decision, pushed largely by Germany, came in the wake of the Greek people’s resounding referendum
- [Asian alliance joins global call for tax justice](https://apmdd.org/asian-alliance-joins-global-call-for-tax-justice/) - An alliance of people's movements across Asia united with the world's largest civil society groups this week in celebration of the Global Week of Action on Tax Justice. MANILA, 6 November 2015 – An alliance of people's movements across Asia united with the world's largest civil society groups this week in celebration of the Global
- [On the Panama Papers and Illicit Financial Flows](https://apmdd.org/on-the-panama-papers-and-illicit-financial-flows/) - The recently leaked Panama Papers all the more confirm what we already know about illicit financial flows – that there are massive sums of money stashed away in financial secrecy jurisdictions with the purposive intent to avoid and evade tax obligations and hide stolen wealth. The recently leaked Panama Papers all the more confirm what we already
- [Statement on the occasion of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of the Asian Development Bank](https://apmdd.org/statement-on-the-occasion-of-the-49th-annual-meeting-of-the-board-of-governors-of-the-asian-development-bank/) - Sustainable development figures prominently in this year’s meeting of the Board of Governors of the Asian Development Bank’s with its chosen theme “Cooperating for Sustainability”. © forum-adb.org Sustainable development figures prominently in this year’s meeting of the Board of Governors of the Asian Development Bank’s with its chosen theme “Cooperating for Sustainability”. ADB has also
- [Tax justice issues in Asia highlighted in 2016 World Social Forum](https://apmdd.org/tax-justice-issues-in-asia-highlighted-in-2016-world-social-forum/) - APMDD led the Tax and Fiscal Justice Asia’s (TAFJA) participation in various events organized by the Global Alliance for Tax Justice and many other groups and movements as part of the 2016 World Social Forum (WSF) held in Montreal. APMDD led the Tax and Fiscal Justice Asia’s (TAFJA)1 participation in various events organized by the Global
- [Tax and gender justice at the 13th AWID Forum: Staking our claim in a feminist future](https://apmdd.org/tax-and-gender-justice-at-the-13th-awid-forum-staking-our-claim-in-a-feminist-future/) - Bringing tax justice and gender issues to the fore, APMDD joined 1,800 women from 130 countries last September 2016 in responding to the theme "Feminist Futures: Building Collective Power for Rights and Justice". Bringing tax justice and gender issues to the fore, APMDD joined 1,800 women from 130 countries last September 2016 in responding to
- [APMDD Convenes TaFJA Coordinating Committee Meeting](https://apmdd.org/apmdd-convenes-tafja-coordinating-committee-meeting/) - APMDD convened the Tax and Fiscal Justice Asia Coordinating Committee planning meeting to share updates on tax-related work in the countries and region and discuss ways of strengthening the alliance and its work. APMDD convened the Tax and Fiscal Justice Asia (TaFJA) Coordinating Committee (CC) planning meeting last September 14-15 in Manila to share updates
- [International Forum on Tax Justice](https://apmdd.org/international-forum-on-tax-justice/) - Last September 16, APMDD organized the International Forum on Tax Justice, in cooperation with the organizations in the AFTJA Coordinating Committee to discuss challenges and initiatives on various tax justice issues. Last September 16, APMDD organized the International Forum on Tax Justice, in cooperation with the organizations in the AFTJA Coordinating Committee to discuss challenges
- [World Bank must stop funding fossil fuels – Asian movements](https://apmdd.org/world-bank-must-stop-funding-fossil-fuels-asian-movements/) - The day before the annual meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund took place in Washington DC, APMDD joined its members in the Philippines in holding a protest action, demanding the Bank to end its fossil fuel investment. MANILA, Philippines, 11 October 2016 – The day before the annual meeting of the
- [APMDD inputs tax justice lens into international workshop on social protection](https://apmdd.org/apmdd-inputs-tax-justice-lens-into-international-workshop-on-social-protection/) - "Tax justice opens concrete opportunities for claiming urgently needed resources in tax protection" is APMDD's main message at the Workshop on Expanding on Social Protection Towards Addressing Inequality and Increasing Vulnerabilities under ASEAN Integration. "Tax justice opens concrete opportunities for claiming urgently needed resources in tax protection." This was the main message of APMDD's contribution
- [Asian tax justice alliance joins GATJ reps in Action Aid – Oxfam Tax Justice Together Campaigners’ Conference](https://apmdd.org/asian-tax-justice-alliance-joins-gatj-reps-in-action-aid-oxfam-tax-justice-together-campaigners-conference/) - The "Tax Justice Together" Campaigners' Conference in Warsaw, Poland is part of the Tax Justice Together project of Action Aid and Oxfam, aimed primarily at "putting tax justice at the heart of the European agenda." TAFJA (through Mae Buenaventura of APMDD and Rakesh Mittal of INSAF) participated in the "Tax Justice Together" Campaigners' Conference last 22-23
- [Tax Administrators Roundtable, New Delhi, India](https://apmdd.org/tax-administrators-roundtable-new-delhi-india/) - APMDD co-sponsored and participated in a "Roundtable on Reforms in International Taxation and Financial Transparency: Towards a Regional Agenda for Asia" last November 21, 2016 in New Delhi. APMDD co-sponsored and participated in a "Roundtable on Reforms in International Taxation and Financial Transparency: Towards a Regional Agenda for Asia" last November 21, 2016 in New
- [Urban poor & other groups assail Duterte govt for hunger, gross inequality](https://apmdd.org/urban-poor-other-groups-assail-duterte-govt-for-hunger-gross-inequality-2/) - MENDIOLA, Manila – “Everyday millions of Filipinos are experiencing a Duterte legacy – the rising GDP. That is GDP, Gutom ng Pilipino (Hunger of the Filipino),” Atty. Aaron Pedrosa, secretary-general of Sanlakas, lambasted the current administration today in a rally of marginalized groups a short distance from the gates of Malacañang Palace. Pedrosa said that
- [The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund: A Past and a Present of Contributing to Poverty and Inequality](https://apmdd.org/the-world-bank-and-the-international-monetary-fund-a-past-and-a-present-of-contributing-to-poverty-and-inequality/) - Leading international financial institutions (IFIs) such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have joined calls to end inequality, and with their resources and influence, seek to shape the discourse. Leading international financial institutions (IFIs) such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have joined calls to end inequality, and with
- [Tax Justice Issues in Extractives: Examples from the Philippines](https://apmdd.org/tax-justice-issues-in-extractives-examples-from-the-philippines/) - The extractives sector is one of the most concentrated and lucrative enterprises anywhere in the world. Limited competition raises questions of transparency and accountability with regard their profits, structures and systems. Revenues of the biggest mining multinational firms run to the billions of dollars, while they leave environments in often irreversible ruin, poison water and
- [Urban poor & other groups assail Duterte govt for hunger, gross inequality](https://apmdd.org/urban-poor-other-groups-assail-duterte-govt-for-hunger-gross-inequality/) - MENDIOLA, Manila – “Everyday millions of Filipinos are experiencing a Duterte legacy – the rising GDP. That is GDP, Gutom ng Pilipino (Hunger of the Filipino),” Atty. Aaron Pedrosa, secretary-general of Sanlakas, lambasted the current administration today in a rally of marginalized groups a short distance from the gates of Malacañang Palace. Pedrosa said that
- [Communiqué of the Asian Conference on Illicit Financial Flows](https://apmdd.org/communique-of-the-asian-conference-on-illicit-financial-flows-2/) - "Stopping Robbers and Pirates" Quezon City, Philippines20-22 November 2019 1. We, participants of this Conference, have come together from 11 Asian countries1 to call for an end to illicit financial flows (IFFs), recognizing these as a massive loss of public money when needs are as urgent as ever for essential social services, decent jobs, long-lasting resilience
- [Women, Make Noise for Tax Justice! Make Taxes Work For Women!](https://apmdd.org/women-make-noise-for-tax-justice-make-taxes-work-for-women/) - Statement on the Global Days of Action on #TaxJustice for Women’s Rights 8-20 March 2020 The Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD) stands in solidarity with women and women’s rights activists across the world in celebrating International Women’s Day this month of March. We join the Global Alliance for Tax Justice (GATJ) and
- [Women score corporate tax abuses, call for tax justice in Mendiola rally](https://apmdd.org/women-score-corporate-tax-abuses-call-for-tax-justice-in-mendiola-rally/) - MENDIOLA, March 6 – Ahead of International Women’s Day on March 8, some 500 women from various organizations marched to protest the worsening conditions of women in the face of greater economic hardships, public health risks and climate change. They demanded a stop to the Duterte administration’s corporate-coddling tax policies and called for more public
- [Tax & Fiscal Justice: Our Revenues for Our Rights! An Open Letter to Policy-Makers in Light of the Covid19 Health Crisis](https://apmdd.org/tax-fiscal-justice-our-revenues-for-our-rights-an-open-letter-to-policy-makers-in-light-of-the-covid19-health-crisis/) - As the COVID 19 public health crisis intensifies with alarming speed in many parts of the world including the Philippines, the adverse impacts on the poor and low-income, and those who are marginalized and discriminated, grow even more acute. As the COVID 19 public health crisis intensifies with alarming speed in many parts of the
- [Nepal needs Total Debt Cancellation to face the Covid-19 Crisis](https://apmdd.org/nepal-needs-total-debt-cancellation-to-face-the-covid-19-crisis/) - The devastation caused by the coronavirus pandemic is a serious threat which has brought our civilisation and economies at the brink of collapse. The current crisis in every sector of our lives has revealed how weak our system is when it comes to fighting back and containing the spread of the virus. by Praman Adhikari
- [TAFJA joins co-authors in launch of research on ASEAN harmful tax perks](https://apmdd.org/tafja-joins-co-authors-in-launch-of-research-on-asean-harmful-tax-perks/) - Research report: Towards Sustainable Tax Policies in the ASEAN Region: The Case of Corporate Tax Incentives The Vietnam Institute for Economic and Policy Research (VEPR), in coordination with Oxfam, Prakarsa, Tax and Fiscal Justice Asia (TAFJA) and Vietnam Tax Justice Alliance (VATJ), on June 25 announced research outcomes on the case of corporate tax incentives in
- [Towards Sustainable Tax Policies in the ASEAN Region](https://apmdd.org/towards-sustainable-tax-policies-in-the-asean-region/) - The Case of Corporate Tax Incentives "All ASEAN Member States need to collaborate with one another to establish effective enforcement mechanisms and take collective action to prevent harmful tax practices in the form of corporate tax incentives, in pursuit of a common goal of building sustainability and resilience across the ASEAN region." Oxfam commissioned the
- [People’s survival undermined by bailouts of mining firms, says tax justice advocates](https://apmdd.org/peoples-survival-undermined-by-bailouts-of-mining-firms-says-tax-justice-advocates/) - “Bail out common people, not mining companies!” Speakers from Indonesia, Philippines, India and Mongolia shared urgent needs for public funds to address peoples’ survival needs in COVID times and contrasted these with massive revenues raked in by big mining, on top of wide-ranging tax incentives enjoyed by the extractives sector. “Bail out common people, not
- [Calling for Tax Justice Now](https://apmdd.org/calling-for-tax-justice-now/) - End Corporate Tax Abuses, Stop Illicit Financial Flows!Make Taxes Work for WOMEN and WORKERS, not TNCs!Make Taxes Work for PEOPLE, not TNCs! CALLING FOR TAX JUSTICE NOW! Tax justice is a major step for people to survive the current pandemic and multiple crises. The Covid 19 pandemic has shown up global multiple crises – health,
- [End Corporate Tax Abuses, Stop Illicit Financial Flows!](https://apmdd.org/end-corporate-tax-abuses-stop-illicit-financial-flows/) - CALLING FOR TAX JUSTICE NOW!Set up a democratic and transparent global tax body under the UN! Tax justice is a major step for people to survive the current pandemic and multiple crises. The Covid 19 pandemic has shown up global multiple crises – health, economic, environment and climate emergency. So-called recovery measures revolve around cutting
- [Activists call for solidarity with the Sri Lankan people -- debt cancellation for people’s survival, not more loans and austerity!](https://apmdd.org/activists-call-for-solidarity-with-the-sri-lankan-people-debt-cancellation-for-peoples-survival-not-more-loans-and-austerity-2/) - Manila, 7 Sept. – Activists gathered in Makati City today to express solidarity with the people of debt-burdened Sri Lanka as they continue to suffer from acute fuel and food shortages, and warned that the Philippines and other Asian countries also risk a similar crisis. Simultaneous actions were also held in Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal
- [Cancel the debt! – Asian activists press for debt cancellation as World Bank - IMF hold annuals](https://apmdd.org/cancel-the-debt-asian-activists-press-for-debt-cancellation-as-world-bank-imf-hold-annuals/) - The Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD) today joined hundreds of organizations worldwide participating in a global week of action to demand debt cancellation amid multiple crises as international lenders led by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) meet in Washington DC for their annual meetings. Public actions in the Philippines, Nepal, Pakistan,
- [On the occasion of the 2022 G7 Summit: Cancel the debt in the face of the health, economic, and climate crises!](https://apmdd.org/on-the-occasion-of-the-2022-g7-summit-cancel-the-debt-in-the-face-of-the-health-economic-and-climate-crises/) - This year’s G7 Summit is again approaching in a world that has seen little progressive change but has instead fallen deeper into debt bondage, inequality and impoverishment under a neoliberal system led and maintained by the richest countries. Bearing the heaviest yoke of debt burdens are the billions of people in the global south who
- [Rising public debts from private lenders – red flags for Southern governments](https://apmdd.org/rising-public-debts-from-private-lenders-red-flags-for-southern-governments/) - Warning of greater fiscal risk amid the multiple crises, experts and debt justice campaigners called attention to rising public debt from private creditors and discussed ways to address this in a webinar organized by APMDD last June 21. The discussion, Public burden, private gain: Sovereign debt “relief” from private lenders, took place against a backdrop of swiftly
- [Suspend Pakistan debt repayments!](https://apmdd.org/suspend-pakistan-debt-repayments/) - IMF-World Bank, suspend Pakistan debt repayments! Scores of people gathered outside Lahore Press Club near the American consulate to demand suspension of debt repatriation to International Monetary Fund and World Bank. The protest was organized by the Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee (PKRC) in collaboration with Asian Peoples' Movement on Debt and Development. The protestors carried
- [Activists stage symbolic “die-in” to call for solidarity with the Pakistani people, climate reparations and debt cancellation](https://apmdd.org/activists-stage-symbolic-die-in-to-call-for-solidarity-with-the-pakistani-people-climate-reparations-and-debt-cancellation/) - Quezon City, 9 September – “People are dying from the devastating impacts of the debt crisis and the climate emergency ” said Lidy Nacpil, coordinator of the Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD) as she expressed solidarity with more than 33 million people in Pakistan affected by the unprecedented heavy, continuous monsoon rains
- [Activists call for solidarity with the Sri Lankan people – debt cancellation for people’s survival, not more loans and austerity!](https://apmdd.org/activists-call-for-solidarity-with-the-sri-lankan-people-debt-cancellation-for-peoples-survival-not-more-loans-and-austerity/) - Manila, 7 Sept. – Activists gathered in Makati City today to express solidarity with the people of debt-burdened Sri Lanka as they continue to suffer from acute fuel and food shortages, and warned that the Philippines and other Asian countries also risk a similar crisis. Simultaneous actions were also held in Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal
- [Asia Debt Monitor 2022 Issue #2](https://apmdd.org/asia-debt-monitor-2022-issue-2/) - The Asia Debt Monitor is an e-publication of the Asian Peoples' Movement on Debt and Development.
- [History RePPPeated II - Why Public-Private Partnerships are not the solution](https://apmdd.org/history-repppeated-ii-why-public-private-partnerships-are-not-the-solution/) - "In 2018, our report History RePPPeated – How Public-Private Partnerships are failing challenged the increasing promotion of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) as a silver bullet to finance development projects. It showed that PPPs often come at a high cost for the public purse and citizens, an excessive level of risk for the public sector and have a negative
- [APMDD scores debt relief schemes at IMF-World Bank Spring Meetings](https://apmdd.org/apmdd-scores-debt-relief-schemes-at-imf-world-bank-spring-meetings/) - Last April 12, APMDD joined debt justice groups and partners in holding a session dubbed “Achieving debt crisis resolution that delivers today and in the future,” at the Civil Society Policy Forum of the IMF and World Bank. The event was lead-organized by Latindadd and co-sponsored by APMDD, AFRODAD, Jubilee USA, Eurodad, SLUG, Arab Watch
- [Make Taxes Work for People, not TNCs!](https://apmdd.org/make-taxes-work-for-people-not-tncs/) - CALLING FOR TAX JUSTICE NOW!Pursue systemic reforms for economic and climate justice! SHARE this post to your Facebook, Twitter, IG, etc. Get the message out to governments, the United Nations, and other multilateral institutions. Tax justice is a major step for people to survive the current pandemic and multiple crises. The Covid 19 pandemic has
- [Call to Action: Tax Justice to Overcome the Crisis!](https://apmdd.org/call-to-action-tax-justice-to-overcome-the-crisis/) - We stand today in Asia and link arms of solidarity on these Global Days of Action to make ourselves heard on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the UN General Assembly, that we demand national and global COVID19 measures based solidly on tax and fiscal justice, the primacy of people and human rights, and
- [Speaking out for tax justice](https://apmdd.org/speaking-out-for-tax-justice/) - The online rally for tax justice heard tax justice champions from all walks of life advance imperatives to address peoples’ survival adequately and humanely. We want tax justice! We want taxes to be collected from the rich and be spent on the poor and that has not been done! FAROOQ TARIQ, Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee
- [Philippine Government’s Revenue-eroding Tax Reforms and the Right to Health](https://apmdd.org/philippine-governments-revenue-eroding-tax-reforms-and-the-right-to-health/) - Contribution to the UNIVERSAL PERIODIC REVIEW Fourth Cycle SUBMISSION OF THE ASIAN PEOPLES’ MOVEMENT ON DEBT AND DEVELOPMENT, FREEDOM FROM DEBT COALITION (FDC), and ORIANG (women’s organization) INTRODUCTION “Each State Party to the present Covenant undertakes to take steps individually and through international assistance and cooperation, especially economic and technical, to the maximum of its
- [Tax Justice in the Extractives Sector: A Renewed Call in COVID times to Stop Tax Abuse and Plunder](https://apmdd.org/tax-justice-in-the-extractives-sector-a-renewed-call-in-covid-times-to-stop-tax-abuse-and-plunder/)
- [Does this look familiar?](https://apmdd.org/does-this-look-familiar/) - PLEASE SHARE YOUR STORIES.This political cartoon is posted on the eve of the Global Day of Action for Tax Justice in the Extractive Industry, November 19. Read the full statement:
- [Global Day of Action for Tax Justice in the Extractive Industry](https://apmdd.org/global-day-of-action-for-tax-justice-in-the-extractive-industry/) - Nov 19, 2020 • 12:00 AM - 11:45 PM • Online As the world grapples with the multiple crises of global COVID-19 pandemic, the economic recession, and the climate emergency, the need to raise the alarm on and fight the tax abuses and illicit financial flows in the extractive industry is more critical and urgent
- [Make Taxes Work for Women in the Informal Economy!](https://apmdd.org/make-taxes-work-for-women-in-the-informal-economy/) - Now is the time for states to recognize the contribution of informal women workers, fulfill their rights and accord them what is long over due! Over two billion people in the world work in the informal economy.* Of this, 1.3 billion of the world’s informal workers are in Asia Pacific. Although the share of women
- [Make Taxes Work for Women Now!](https://apmdd.org/make-taxes-work-for-women-now/) - Amidst COVID-19 and lockdowns, violence against women, women’s unpaid care work, job loss, and exposure to health risks have intensified. WE NEED MORE THAN A VACCINE SHOT TO SAVE LIVES. Everyday women fight for survival, safety, security, health, justice and equality. In the face of the pandemic and other crises, the United Nations estimates that
- [The “double theft” from illicit financial flows](https://apmdd.org/the-double-theft-from-illicit-financial-flows-2/) - Corporate tax abuse and other illicit financial flows (IFF) are taking a toll on people’s health and depriving millions of essential services. The urgent need to address IFF as a systemic problem was underscored recently in the report of the FACTI Panel or the United Nations High-Level Panel on International Financial Accountability, Transparency and Integrity
- [Defending real public country by country reporting in trialogue negotiations](https://apmdd.org/defending-real-public-country-by-country-reporting-in-trialogue-negotiations/) - The Financial Transparency Coalition with CBGA, Christian Aid, Latindadd, Eurodadd, Tax Justice Network, Tax Justice Network Africa, APMDD, Fundación SES, and a number of others sent a new letter to European legislators calling for greater public country-by-country reporting. Key quote: "We will continue to support the fight for meaningful public CBCR and we call on you to
- [Following the IFF trail](https://apmdd.org/following-the-iff-trail/) - The report of the High-Level Panel on International Financial Accountability, Transparency and Integrity for Achieving the 2030 Agenda or FACTI Panelunderscores the urgent need to address the systemic problem of illicit financial flows (IFF) which, if left unabated, will continue to widen inequalities. Below are quotes lifted from the FACTI Report released in February 2021. *
- [APMDD Statement on the 54th Annual Meeting of the Asian Development Bank](https://apmdd.org/apmdd-statement-on-the-54th-annual-meeting-of-the-asian-development-bank/) - At this 54th annual meeting of the Board of Governors of the Asian Development Bank, we challenge the leadership and staff of the ADB to reflect seriously on its legacy. For more than five decades, the ADB has left a trail of projects that have met strong and persistent resistance from citizens’ groups and peoples
- [OUR STORIES](https://apmdd.org/our-stories/) - #8for8 Campaign: Make Taxes Work for Women
- [Asia Debt Monitor 2022 Issue #1](https://apmdd.org/asia-debt-monitor-2022-issue-1/) - The Asia Debt Monitor is an e-publication of the Asian Peoples' Movement on Debt and Development.
- [APMDD Campaign on Tax Justice in the Extractives Industry](https://apmdd.org/apmdd-campaign-on-tax-justice-in-the-extractives-industry/) - Built on centuries of environmental pillage and wealth extraction in mineral-rich areas, the extractive industry has historically thrived in environments of financial secrecy, corruption, tax abuses and other illicit financial flows (IFFs). Social movements and mining-affected communities have long been waging fierce campaigns directed at the extractive industry, especially in the mines and mineral sector,
- [Press Release: Asian Movements and Citizens Groups Reject, "Inequitable, Undemocratic” 15% G7 Global Tax Deal](https://apmdd.org/press-release-asian-movements-and-citizens-groups-reject-inequitable-undemocratic-15-g7-global-tax-deal/) - As the G7 Finance Ministers’ Meeting in London concluded with exalted acclaim from its member states on the “groundbreaking overhaul” of global tax rules, movements raised alarm bells against the impact of the G7 commitment to a 15% minimum global corporate tax rate. Finance Ministers of the Group of 7 (G7) – composed of Canada,
- [Pharma MNCs: dodging taxes, blocking the trips waiver](https://apmdd.org/pharma-mncs-dodging-taxes-blocking-the-trips-waiver/) - Pharmaceutical multinational corporations are resisting calls for a suspension of intellectual property rules for Covid-19 vaccines, effectively blocking the speedy manufacture of vaccines that will allow millions more to be protected from the virus. The record of these MNCs speaks of their loyalty to profits at the expense of the public good. This infographic provides
- [APMDD scores putting blame on borrowers, slams lenders' lack of debt transparency at 13th UNCTAD Conference](https://apmdd.org/apmdd-scores-putting-blame-on-borrowers-slams-lenders-lack-of-debt-transparency-at-13th-unctad-conference/) - "We believe that debt transparency should apply to all debt instruments and countries, regardless of income levels... For certain, borrowing governments should be held responsible for contracting and accumulating burdensome and illegitimate debts. But transparency is just as wanting among lenders. In many instances, the weight of culpability and accountability rests primarily and heavily on lenders." The message
- [A rude awakening to reality](https://apmdd.org/a-rude-awakening-to-reality/) - On the eve of the UN Public Service Day, June 23, we recognize the work of public servants, especially in health care, and reiterate the urgent need to expand the fiscal space for increased investments in public services. Corporate tax abuses and other illicit financial flows (IFFs) must be stopped to plug the leaks that
- [G20 Finance leaders upbeat about recovery, but recovery for whom? 3 WAYS CORPORATIONS WON AND MORE WAYS THE POOR LOST IN THE RIGGED RACE FOR BAILOUTS](https://apmdd.org/g20-finance-leaders-upbeat-about-recovery-but-recovery-for-whom-3-ways-corporations-won-and-more-ways-the-poor-lost-in-the-rigged-race-for-bailouts/) - As the global pandemic ravaged countries in Asia, the region lost at least 81 million jobs and US$1.7 trillion in household incomes.1 In the face of these intersecting crises, several governments of developing countries hastily chose to bail out corporations as a priority before people in their so-called “economic recovery” programs. Tax breaks, among many pro-business
- [Hollow Pillars on Unequal Grounds: How the OECD/G20 Tax Deal Upholds the Inequality and Exclusivity of the Global Tax System](https://apmdd.org/hollow-pillars-on-unequal-grounds-how-the-oecd-g20-tax-deal-upholds-the-inequality-and-exclusivity-of-the-global-tax-system/) - On July 10 2021, the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors concluded their third meeting with a resounding endorsement of the unambitious and undemocratic two-pillar solution of the G7 and the OECD. The G20 endorsement is the latest rubber stamp to the agenda dominated and led by the Global North to redefine global tax
- [STATEMENT: Asian Civil Society Organizations Call to Reject the OECD/G20 Global Tax Deal](https://apmdd.org/oecd-g20-global-tax-deal/) - My name is Stephanie and I am a Creative Professional. I am a photographer that shoots in a creative manner. My photos can tell the whole story of your precious moments that will last a lifetime for generations to come
- [Press Release – Civil society rejects “false solutions” in the OECD/G20 tax proposals](https://apmdd.org/press-release-civil-society-rejects-false-solutions-in-the-oecd-g20-tax-proposals/) - Seen from an economic justice perspective, the results of the recently concluded meeting of G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank governors in Venice are a huge disappointment. The G20 through its finance leaders resoundingly echoed the OECD tax proposals, considered by many leaders of developing countries and CSOs as “false solutions.”“The G20 did not address
- [OUR STORIES: Time for Solidarity, Time to Rewrite the Rules](https://apmdd.org/our-stories-time-for-solidarity-time-to-rewrite-the-rules/) - This comic strip is inspired by real stories of APMDD members across the region. As COVID-19 lockdowns brought already marginalized communities to extreme crises of survival, people came together in the spirit of solidarity. Community pantries and kitchens, the delivery of basic necessities to the elderly and others who must keep indoors, among other community-led
- [Signing for Equality](https://apmdd.org/signing-for-equality/) - Participants to a Webinar on Inequalities, Public Services and Tax Justice made the sign for equality to cap off a two-hour session that brought together organizations and communities in the frontlines of fighting inequalities and most affected by failing public services and loss of public revenues due to flawed fiscal and tax systems. Over 110
- [Day of action for tax justice](https://apmdd.org/day-of-action-for-tax-justice/) - With the rubber stamp of the G7 and the G20’s finance ministers earlier this year, the world’s wealthiest countries are doubling down on efforts to enact an inequitable and undemocratic tax deal for all countries to adopt. It is imperative for civil society organizations and governments to strongly reject this “tax deal of the rich”
- [Tax “Deal of the Rich” will not benefit developing countries](https://apmdd.org/tax-deal-of-the-rich-will-not-benefit-developing-countries/) - A call on civil society organisations from around the world to reject the forthcoming G7/G20/OECD tax deal The COVID-19 pandemic and its impacts present a historical opportunity to reform global corporate taxation and transform our tax systems to make them more responsive to the needs of people and the planet. It is unconscionable that the
- [An Open Letter to Asian Governments: Reject the Tax Deal of the Rich](https://apmdd.org/open_letter-asian-govts/) - The Open Letter adopted by and co-signed by the Freedom from Debt Coalition -Philippines is delivered to the Department of Finance on September 23, 2021 As peoples and organizations committed to the transparent, accountable, and just restructuring of tax systems, we call on governments to take urgent measures to make tax and fiscal policies more
- [Philippine government should reject the OECD-G7-G20 “tax deal of the rich” - FDC](https://apmdd.org/philippine-government-should-reject-the-oecd-g7-g20-tax-deal-of-the-rich-fdc/) - The delegation from FDC and APMDD in front of the Department of Finance building MANILA, 24 September 2021 –“We have delivered our message to the Philippine government on the certain negative impact of a tax deal forwarded by wealthy countries. The Philippine government must act in the best interest of the Filipino people. This means rejecting
- [G20-proposed 15% global minimum corporate tax rate to give more benefits to corporations, more undue burden on the poor — APMDD](https://apmdd.org/g20-proposed-15-global-minimum-corporate-tax-rate-to-give-more-benefits-to-corporations-more-undue-burden-on-the-poor-apmdd/) - Lidy Nacpil of the Asian Peoples' Movement on Debt and Development (center) presses for new tax rules to be negotiated in a proposed United Nations Tax Body. Labor Leader Ka Leody De Guzman (left) calls for the scrapping of VAT and institution of a wealth tax in the country. Sanlakas Secretary General, Atty. Aaron Pedrosa,
- [RING THE ALARM! Day of Protest on Tax and Labor Abuses of Mining Companies](https://apmdd.org/ring-the-alarm-day-of-protest-on-tax-and-labor-abuses-of-mining-companies/) - The mining industry in the Philippines is built upon centuries of plunder and pillage of natural resources, exploitation of labor, environmental degradation and violations of human rights especially of indigenous peoples and other mining-affected communities. As in other extractives sectors, the mining industry across the world has also grown immensely from the accumulation of massive
- [Are You Really the Santa Claus They Say You Are?](https://apmdd.org/are-you-really-the-santa-claus-they-say-you-are/) - To the tune of Sta Claus Is Coming To Town, Philippine tax justice groups denounced mining corporations singing “Are You Really the Santa Claus They Say You Are?” in a rally in front of the Bureau of Internal Revenue last November 19. ♫ A bearer of gifts, they say, you are But what a pittance,
- [Stop tax dodging and plundering! Stop undermining human rights!](https://apmdd.org/stop-tax-dodging-and-plundering-stop-undermining-human-rights/) - The extraction of natural resources in many countries in Asia has long served as a foundation for the concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a few -- at the expense of communities, marginalized sectors, and the environment. Our shared experiences of large-scale mineral extraction under colonial occupation and the neoliberal drive of governments to attract foreign investments in
- [PRESS RELEASE: Tax justice groups slam tax abuses, privileges of mining corporations](https://apmdd.org/press-release-tax-justice-groups-slam-tax-abuses-privileges-of-mining-corporations/) - MANILA, 26 November 2021- Tax justice and human rights activists today trooped to the Department of Finance to protest the undue tax privileges given to and the tax abuses of mining corporations. “Are you truly Santa?” they sang to the tune of “Santa Clause is Coming to Town,” in reference to the privileges given by government to mining
- [People’s groups and movements denounce deepening inequality, say it’s time to tax the rich, not the poor](https://apmdd.org/peoples-groups-and-movements-denounce-deepening-inequality-say-its-time-to-tax-the-rich-not-the-poor/) - The call for governments to “Tax the rich, not the poor / Tax the billionaire, not the worker” reverberated in protest actions and activities staged by people’s organizations and movements in Asia on 21 January 2022, in solidarity with theGlobal Protest to Fight Inequality called by the Fight Inequality Alliance and with movements and CSOs
- [SEA civil society groups resolve to advance advocacies for tax justice and the rights of workers, farmers, and women](https://apmdd.org/sea-civil-society-groups-resolve-to-advance-advocacies-for-tax-justice-and-the-rights-of-workers-farmers-and-women/) - Worsening inequality and climate impacts, unfair trade and global value chains, flawed tax systems and inadequate revenues to finance post-COVID recovery were tackled at a regional workshop organized by the Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD) and Perkempulaan Prakarsa on 23-25 March 2022 in Bali, Indonesia. Participants from civil society groups in Southeast
- [APMDD holds forum on “Women’s Voices for Tax Justice: Women, Mining and Climate”](https://apmdd.org/apmdd-holds-forum-on-womens-voices-for-tax-justice-women-mining-and-climate/) - As part of the Global Days of Action for Tax Justice for Women’s Rights, APMDD and TAFJA held an online forum on 24 March 2022 to listen to women’s voices for tax justice and explore how mining and illicit financial flows impact on women’s rights and resilience in the face of an alarming climate crisis.
- [A People’s Manifesto: Tax the Rich, Not the Poor! Make Taxes Work for People and the Planet!](https://apmdd.org/a-peoples-manifesto-tax-the-rich-not-the-poor-make-taxes-work-for-people-and-the-planet/) - Download formatted PDF file: Click here We, as members of civil society and mass organizations from different countries in Asia and other regions, come together in recognition of the urgency of transforming our tax and fiscal systems to make them ‘work for people and the planet.’ These have to be reoriented to turn away from
- [The Pandora Papers Exposé: Hoarding wealth amidst global hunger and uncertainties](https://apmdd.org/the-pandora-papers-expose-hoarding-wealth-amidst-global-hunger-and-uncertainties/) - While the vast majority of people across the world are under the grip of hunger and economic insecurity, hundreds of politicians, business executives, royalties, celebrities, religious leaders, and even drug dealers were exposed to have been salting away their wealth in faraway offshore accounts. These individuals are counted among the super-rich, many of whom are
- [ADB's Asia Pacific Tax Hub a Trojan Horse](https://apmdd.org/adbs-asia-pacific-tax-hub-a-trojan-horse/) - by Pooja Rangaprasad and Jeannie Manipon Reprinted from Asia Times - https://asiatimes.com/2022/04/adbs-asia-pacific-tax-hub-a-trojan-horse/ The Asian Development Bank (ADB) launched the Asia Pacific Tax Hub on domestic resource mobilization and international tax cooperation in 2021. The stated objective under “international tax cooperation” is to promote tax initiatives of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a club
- [Key to Uplifting Peoples' Welfare in Asia: Ending Financial Secrecy and Taxing Offshore Wealth!](https://apmdd.org/key-to-uplifting-peoples-welfare-in-asia-ending-financial-secrecy-and-taxing-offshore-wealth/) - Curbing illicit financial flows and tax avoidance is particularly urgent in Asia, where peoples continue to suffer from budget cuts in essential social services even as they experience multiple crises. Making the rich pay their share is also particularly challenging in the region, as business interests are closely tied up with the interests of those
- [Civil society organizations decry “false promises” of DOF for transparency in the extractives sector](https://apmdd.org/civil-society-organizations-decry-false-promises-of-dof-for-transparency-in-the-extractives-sector/) - Groups to press for government monitoring of mining companies Leaders of mining affected communities and civil society groups decried Friday a government official’s statement that the Philippines can ensure transparency in the extractives sector following the country’s withdrawal from the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), a platform for monitoring mining companies’ performance. In a meeting
- [Tax the Rich, Not the Poor!: A Call to Institute A Wealth Tax](https://apmdd.org/tax-the-rich-not-the-poor-a-call-to-institute-a-wealth-tax/) - As inequality and poverty grow in the Philippines, in Asia, and across the globe, so too does the call for a wealth tax. A wealth tax is a potent tool for equality and justice. A wealth tax is a tax on the market value of assets owned by an individual taxpayer rather than on his/her
- [Tax Justice Now, towards Ending Inequalities And Building People’s Recovery and Resilience](https://apmdd.org/tax-justice-now-towards-ending-inequalities-and-building-peoples-recovery-and-resilience/) - The multiple crises brought to the fore by the pandemic have widened inequalities that had already been present and worsening before the COVID-19 outbreak. Any serious attempt at ensuring peoples' recovery and addressing inequalities would require bold and decisive actions that strike at the root causes of inequalities and multiple crises. Longstanding inequalities cannot be
- [PRESS STATEMENT Reject the OECD/G20 BEPS Tax Deal of the Rich! UN Tax Convention Now!](https://apmdd.org/press-statement-reject-the-oecd-g20-beps-tax-deal-of-the-rich-un-tax-convention-now/) - CSOs support the G77 and China proposal on UN intergovernmental tax body and the Africa Group’s on a UN Tax Convention This week, the Group of 77 (G77) and China and the Africa Group at the UN have once again tabled resolution drafts, which would bring reform of international tax rules to its rightful institution and enshrine international cooperation
- [Labor Leaders Gather to Push for Wealth Tax and Progressive Tax Reforms](https://apmdd.org/labor-leaders-gather-to-push-for-wealth-tax-and-progressive-tax-reforms/) - In an unprecedented move, more than 160 Philippine trade union leaders and tax justice activists from different parts of the country gathered in a forum to discuss wealth tax as a response to the worsening inequality in the country. Held on November 5, 2022 the forum had for its theme “Buwisan ang Bilyonaryo, Hindi ang
- [Climate campaigners celebrate Tiger Lunar New Year by calling for a total exit from coal and the rapid development of renewable energy systems in Asia](https://apmdd.org/total-coal-exit-lunar-ny-2022/) - Climate campaigners wearing colorful tiger masks held a flash mob at the Fil-Chinese Friendship Arch in Binondo Manila Sunday (January 30) to celebrate the Tiger Lunar New Year as the year of action for total coal phase out and rapid development of renewable energy systems in the Philippines and the rest of Asia. Led by Asian
- [Join the Global Days of Action for Tax Justice in the Extractives 2022](https://apmdd.org/join-the-global-days-of-action-for-tax-justice-in-the-extractives-2022/) - 21-25 Nov: Join the Global Days of Action for Tax Justice in the Extractives 2022 The Global Alliance for Tax Justice (GATJ) and its regional networks Tax and Fiscal Justice Asia (TAFJA), Tax Justice Network Africa (TJNA), and Red de Justicia Fiscal de América Latina y Caribe (RJFALC) will host the Global Days of Action
- [APMDD statement on the World Bank Group's 2021-2025 Climate Change Action Plan](https://apmdd.org/apmdd-statement-on-the-world-bank-groups-2021-2025-climate-change-action-plan/) - The World Bank Group must once and for all end its support for all fossil fuels. This is our urgent demand as the World Bank finalizes a new five-year climate action plan. We are people’s organizations and movements from Asia working in communities impacted by coal, gas and oil projects funded directly and indirectly by
- [ADB Annual Meeting met by climate protesters: Activists call on ADB to stop funding gas, cancel public debts arising from ADB fossil fuel projects](https://apmdd.org/adb-annual-meet-2022/) - As the Asian Development Bank (ADB) held the first stage of its annual meeting today, climate protesters rallied at its headquarters in Manila to call for an end to all financing for fossil fuels and cancellation of ADB sovereign loans that bankrolled fossil fuel projects.
- [Protests to Fight Inequality Call on Davos to go Beyond Economic Recovery](https://apmdd.org/protests-to-fight-inequality-call-on-davos-to-go-beyond-economic-recovery/) - ‘Global Action Needs to Tackle Climate Change and Inequality’ “People on the frontlines of inequality” in cities in India, Nepal, Pakistan, Indonesia, and the Philippines held rallies and organized online actions last week to call on business, government and civil society leaders meeting at the World Economic Forum (WEF) to urgently address climate change and
- [JSAPMDD and FDC Protest Action Against ADB, 2 May 2012](https://apmdd.org/jsapmdd-and-fdc-protest-action-against-adb-2-may-2012/) - Rising inequality still remains as a long-term problem for the Philippines and the rest of the Asia and the Pacific region, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) president said Wednesday. "Unfortunately, while the region has made remarkable progress in reducing poverty, the benefits of growth have yet to reach several hundreds of millions of Asians who
- [Southeast Asian organizations urge ASEAN to massively scale up climate adaptation actions in the region](https://apmdd.org/southeast-asian-organizations-urge-asean-to-massively-scale-up-climate-adaptation-actions-in-the-region/) - Southeast Asian civil society organizations and movements yesterday called on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to establish a formal mechanism to address adaptation to climate change and loss and damage associated with climate change impacts. The call was made during an international conference organized by ActionAid Vietnam and Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt
- [An Open Letter to the Governments of the Group of Seven States on the occasion of their 49th Summit, Hiroshima, Japan No more false debt solutions!](https://apmdd.org/an-open-letter-to-the-governments-of-the-group-of-seven-states-on-the-occasion-of-their-49th-summit-hiroshima-japan-no-more-false-debt-solutions/) - Excellencies, As you, leaders of seven of the world’s richest countries convene for your 49th summit, many Asian countries of the Global South are gripped more tightly than ever in a multiple crisis of development and climate change. Yet the level of development and climate finance needed for survival and beyond, remains far below what
- [Fossil fuel phaseout can no longer be delayed](https://apmdd.org/fossil-fuel-phaseout-can-no-longer-be-delayed/) - By Lidy Nacpil (First published at @inquirerdotnet Philippine Daily Inquirer / 05:07 AM July 28, 2023) Climate change is wreaking havoc on the planet. Millions of people across Asia, Africa, Latin America, Europe, and North America are now suffering from a spate of heat waves caused by record-high temperatures. This extreme heat wave is predicted to
- [Trade Misinvoicing, IFFs, and Tax Justice Advocacy](https://apmdd.org/trade-misinvoicing-iffs-and-tax-justice-advocacy/) - Rick Rowden, senior economist at the Global Financial Integrity, discusses trade misinvoicing and how it facilitates illicit financial flows (IFFs) and the magnitude and scale of the phenomenon in this video produced by APMDD in collaboration with the Financial Transparency Center (FTC) intended to be used for various training activities of APMDD and its members.
- [Financial Transparency Coalition’s response to the FACTI Panel’s Interim Report](https://apmdd.org/financial-transparency-coalitions-response-to-the-facti-panels-interim-report/) - The FTC welcomes the Interim Report by the High-Level Panel on International Financial Accountability, Transparency and Integrity for Achieving the 2030 Agenda. Financial Transparency Coalition’s response to the FACTI Panel’s Interim Report PRESS RELEASESeptember 24, 2020 The Financial Transparency Coalition (FTC) welcomes the Interim Report by the High-Level Panel on International Financial Accountability, Transparency and Integrity for
- [THE “DOUBLE THEFT” FROM ILLICIT FINANCIAL FLOWS](https://apmdd.org/the-double-theft-from-illicit-financial-flows/) - Corporate tax abuse and other illicit financial flows (IFF) are taking a toll on people’s health and depriving millions of essential services. The urgent need to address IFF as a systemic problem was underscored recently in the report of the FACTI Panel or the United Nations High-Level Panel on International Financial Accountability, Transparency and Integrity
- [APMDD’s Campaign on Tax, Women’s Rights and Gender Justice](https://apmdd.org/apmdds-campaign-on-tax-womens-rights-and-gender-justice/) - REWRITE THE RULES! MAKE TAXES WORK FOR WOMEN! The campaign for tax and gender justice is one of APMDD’s priorities in its work on Development Finance. Tax and fiscal systems are embedded in deeply entrenched patriarchal systems, structures, social norms and practices. They reflect direct and indirect gender biases and assumptions – in many countries in Asia,
- [The Global Alliance for Tax Justice nominated for Nobel Peace Prize 2021](https://apmdd.org/the-global-alliance-for-tax-justice-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize-2021/) - Today, the Global Alliance for Tax Justice (GATJ), of which Tax and Fiscal Justice Asia (TAFJA) is the regional formation, and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. APMDD and PRAKARSA are currently co-coordinators of TAFJA. See below for the press release published by GATJ. GATJ and the
- [G7 Tax Pact Undermines Progressive Tax Reforms- TAFJA](https://apmdd.org/g7-tax-pact-undermines-progressive-tax-reforms-tafja/) - Agreements of the Group of Seven in its meeting early June has set the stage for even tougher fights ahead for tax justice advocates in Asia and around the world campaigning for an overhaul of tax rules to reverse growing inequality and deepening poverty. “The G7 has decided on a tax deal among the richest
- [Tax Justice Now for People’s Recovery! - TAFJA](https://apmdd.org/tax-justice-now-for-peoples-recovery-tafja/) - Tax justice groups in Asia are calling for a Day of Action on Tax Justice to be staged on September 23 to demand changes and reforms on taxes and fiscal system with Jeannie Manipon of The Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD) saying that “national tax systems are biased in favor of MNCs
- [Statement: Support for the call by African Ministers of Finance for a UN Tax Convention](https://apmdd.org/statement-support-for-the-call-by-african-ministers-of-finance-for-a-un-tax-convention/) - By Tax Justice Network Africa (TJNA) in association with Tax and Fiscal Justice Asia (TAFJA) and Red de Justicia Fiscal de América Latina y el Caribe (RJFALC), members of the Global Alliance for Tax Justice (GATJ) Over the past several years, Global South countries have repeatedly called for the establishment of an intergovernmental tax body
- [PRESS RELEASE: CSOs support the G77 and China proposal on UN intergovernmental tax body and the Africa Group’s on a UN Tax Convention](https://apmdd.org/press-release-csos-support-the-g77-and-china-proposal-on-un-intergovernmental-tax-body-and-the-africa-groups-on-a-un-tax-convention/) - This week, the Group of 77 (G77) and China and the Africa Group at the UN have once again tabled resolution drafts, which would bring reform of international tax rules to its rightful institution and enshrine international cooperation in tax matters on the basis of equality and fairness. The Global Alliance for Tax Justice (GATJ) joins other members of the Civil Society Financing
- [WE ARE WORKERS TOO! Recognizing unpaid care workers through tax and fiscal justice](https://apmdd.org/we-are-workers-too-recognizing-unpaid-care-workers-through-tax-and-fiscal-justice/) - Download the PDF Version: CLICK HERE Governments’ reliance on indirect taxes to raise revenues adds more burden to low-income families, instead of economic relief. Value-added Tax (VAT), Goods and Services Tax (GST), and excise taxes on fuel are especially burdensome for women who generally earn less than men and who take on a bigger share of
- [#8for8 social media action](https://apmdd.org/8for8-social-media-action/) - This #8for8 social media action reiterates our demand for “WEALTH TAX NOW!” and for justice and equality for women who represent two thirds of the poor in Asia and face discrimination in employment, education, and access to land and other resources. Wealth taxes advance progressive taxation and help build sustainable economies that do not rely
- [In photos: Call to end fossil fuels at the ADB Asia Clean Energy Forum](https://apmdd.org/in-photos-call-to-end-fossil-fuels-at-the-adb-asia-clean-energy-forum/) - “What the people of Asia need is a rapid, direct, equitable and just transition to 100% renewable energy systems. And the delivery of non debt creating climate finance to make this happen. Carbon capture usage and storage and hydrogen schemes, distract from real solutions to the climate crisis. Loan financing of these schemes also exacerbate
- [CSO Intervention at SB58 Bonn Climate Talks](https://apmdd.org/cso-intervention-at-sb58-bonn-climate-talks/) - "What we need for a big breakthrough in Dubai is for rich countries to “come clean” at COP28... We’ll make sure you feel the heat before you get to Dubai, so that the rest of the world won’t roast" - Chadli Sadorra of APMDD addressing parties at the Closing Plenary Session of the #SB58 Bonn Climate Talks
- [APMDD Philippines sends letter to Mizuho Financial Group for continued fossil fuel financing](https://apmdd.org/apmdd-philippines-sends-letter-to-mizuho-financial-group-for-continued-fossil-fuel-financing/) - Our Energy and Climate activists from APMDD Philippines sent a letter to Mizuho Financial Group containing grievances and demands from Asian communities due to their continued fossil fuel financing. Our people reject these blatant disregard of science and evidence to phaseout fossil fuels, and instead fuel their corporate greed at our expense. #MizuhoBank#EndFossilFuels#FastFairForever
- [Asia-wide mobilisations held to demand finance for reparations, justice, and equity](https://apmdd.org/asia-wide-mobilisations-held-to-demand-finance-for-reparations-justice-and-equity/) - On the first day of the Paris Summit for a New Global Financing Pact protests were held by peoples movements and in seven major cities in Asia. Protesters gathered in city landmarks and in front of the French embassy in Dhaka, New Delhi, Jakarta, Lahore, Kathmandu, Colombo and Manila. Peoples’ movements in the Global South
- [Climate campaigners & communities hold fluvial protest vs Mizuho-financed LNG terminal in Batangas, PH](https://apmdd.org/fluvial-protest-vs-mizuho-financed-lng-terminal-in-batangas-ph/) - Climate campaigners & communities are protesting the growing number of gas-fired power projects in Batangas, where the Verde Island Passage is located. There are 45 proposed projects across PH and 16 are slated for the Verde Island Passage, a 1.14 million hectare marine corridor. (On June 23rd, Mizuho will face its shareholders' judgment once again
- [APMDD urges SMBC, MUFG, and JERA to stop funding fossil fuels](https://apmdd.org/apmdd-urges-smbc-mufg-and-jera-to-stop-funding-fossil-fuels/) - Environmental campaigners sent a letter to SMBC, MUFG, and JERA in Tokyo via courier service from Manila. The letter outlines demands from Asian communities and NGOs urging these institutions to stop funding fossil fuels. #DontGasAsia#stopfossilfuels#fastfairforever Asia's Dirty Companies 三井住友銀行 （SMBC）三菱UFJ銀行 JERA Co., Inc.
- [We demand financing for Reparations, Justice and Equity towards building a better, more equitable and sustainable world](https://apmdd.org/we-demand-financing-for-reparations-justice-and-equity-towards-building-a-better-more-equitable-and-sustainable-world/) - In the midst of multiple crises, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank hold their Spring meetings with an agenda that still revolves around the expansion of borrowings and the privileging of private investors and corporations as responses to the defining challenges of our times – the development crisis and the state of climate
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- [JSAPMDD Statement on World Water Day, 22 March 2012](https://apmdd.org/jsapmdd-statement-on-world-water-day-22-march-2012/) - Today, countries the world over celebrate UN World Water Day 2012, around the themes of water and food security. But for Asia, it is not a celebration but rather a clarion call to action and resistance. Today, countries the world over celebrate UN World Water Day 2012, around the themes of water and food security.
- [Privatisation of public services opposed](https://apmdd.org/privatisation-of-public-services-opposed/) - Rights campaigners yesterday opposed privatisation of education and healthcare services, saying that privatisation will take these facilities beyond the reach of majority of the population, including the poor. Instead of privatisation, they demanded an increase in allocation for ensuring education, health, water and electricity for all. These areas – food, education and health – offer
- [JSAPMDD Statement on the recent act of military brutality in Sri Lanka](https://apmdd.org/jsapmdd-statement-on-the-recent-act-of-military-brutality-in-sri-lanka/) - JSAPMDD strongly condemns the violent dispersal by Sri Lanka's military of the peaceful demonstrators fighting for clean and safe water in the village of Weliveriya just outside Colombo last August 1. A Call for Justice and Solidarity! The Jubilee South Asia Pacific Movement on Debt and Development (JSAPMDD) strongly condemns the violent dispersal by Sri
- [Asian movements join global call for tax justice](https://apmdd.org/asian-movements-join-global-call-for-tax-justice/) - Calling for the funding for public services and the stopping of tax incentives and dodging, an Asian civil society alliance unites with the world’s largest labor, faith and other organizations today in celebration of World Public Services Day. On World Public Services Day MANILA and DHAKA, 23 June 2015 – Calling for the funding for
- [Statement on Meralco’s 1,800 MW power capacity supply deal](https://apmdd.org/statement-on-meralcos-1800-mw-power-capacity-supply-deal-2/) - In less than three decades, the Jakarta-based firm Adaro Energy has grown into one of the largest producers of thermal coal in the country and in the region. By end-2017, it posted a 45% spike in net profits to reach more than $480 million, surpassing net profits registered by Indonesia's largest coal producer. The following
- [Statement on Meralco’s 1,800 MW power capacity supply deal](https://apmdd.org/statement-on-meralcos-1800-mw-power-capacity-supply-deal/) - We are alarmed over this news of Meralco’s new power supply agreement. This means we will be locked into additional coal and gas power for the next 20 years. Coal and fossil fuels are major causes of greenhouse gas emissions. Their far-ranging environmental and health effects are bad for people, communities, and the climate. We are alarmed
- [To the participants of the 2021 Finance in Common Summit: move from commitments to action!](https://apmdd.org/to-the-participants-of-the-2021-finance-in-common-summit-move-from-commitments-to-action/) - As a key milestone to COP 26 and avowed supporter of common action for climate, biodiversity and the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the #FinanceinCommonSummit2021 must ensure that public development banks and the governments that control them must commit to take bold, rapid and concrete steps in the right direction to address the multiple crises that
- [APMDD in Thailand: Land and food for people, not profit](https://apmdd.org/apmdd-in-thailand-land-and-food-for-people-not-profit/) - APMDD joins Climate Watch Thailand and farmers in Pichit as they stand up against the false solutions offered to them by the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives. These policies severely limit their income, push them into indebtedness, and benefit big agrobusiness and land owners.
- [Asian Leaders Must Stop Peddling False Solutions to the Climate Crisis](https://apmdd.org/asian-leaders-must-stop-peddling-false-solutions-to-the-climate-crisis/) - CCUS, Hydrogen and Ammonia Have no Place in a Rapid, Just and Equitable Transition Out of Fossil Fuels Towards 100% Renewable Energy Systems The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have come out with the Synthesis of its Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) on March 20, 2023. No doubt the Report will highlight once again the urgency
- [APMDD Statement on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) AR6 Synthesis Report](https://apmdd.org/apmdd-statement-on-the-intergovernmental-panel-on-climate-change-ipcc-ar6-synthesis-report/) - In light of the just released AR6 Summary Report, we are outraged that the governments and corporations most responsible for global warming emissions remain actively invested in fossil fuel expansion. IPCC reports have warned repeatedly that a climate catastrophe is closing in on all of us. The warnings have had no effect on those with
- [Parliamentarians taking action for a Fossil Fuel-Free Future!](https://apmdd.org/parliamentarians-taking-action-for-a-fossil-fuel-free-future/) - Over 600 Members of #Parliament from 79 countries have signed on! Want to learn more about this initiative? Watch this video and follow the parliamentarians' call twitter account: @mpsfossilfree
- [Parliamentarians' Call: #Cop27 side event highlights](https://apmdd.org/parliamentarians-call-cop27-side-event-highlights/) - At #COP27, the parliemantarians' call initiative gained the support of #USA Sen. Ed Markey. Together we will fight for just transition from #FossilFuels and towards building democratic, renewable, safe energy systems for all people and communities.
- [APMDD urges China to usher in 100% Renewable Systems in Asia](https://apmdd.org/apmdd-urges-china-to-usher-in-100-renewable-systems-in-asia/) - We called on China to adopt New Year’s resolutions to address the climate crisis and enable the rapid, just and equitable transition to renewable energy. Festive actions were held in Philippines, Bangladesh and Pakistan.
- [Thousands join all-women bike actions held in 6 Asian countries to mark Women’s Month and call for right to food, energy, climate justice](https://apmdd.org/thousands-join-all-women-bike-actions-held-in-6-asian-countries-to-mark-womens-month-and-call-for-right-to-food-energy-climate-justice/) - Thousands of bikers took part in the all-women March 12 Pedal for People and Planet bike actions in six Asian countries to celebrate International Women’s Month. The bike actions aimed to raise awareness on climate change and the issues of food and clean energy and highlight the role of women in the fight for climate
- [Women demand - JUSTICE! Statement on International Women's Day 2023](https://apmdd.org/women-demand-justice-statement-on-international-womens-day-2023/) - Women in Asia continue to bear the brunt of multiple crises, as the goal of gender equality is reckoned at a distant 168 years to fully achieve. In a period of crises, gender discrimination and inequality further intensify, imposing more layers of unpaid work on women, deepening their economic deprivations, and heightening genderbased violence. Women
- [APMDD urges China to stop financing all fossil fuel projects and to support the transition to renewable energy systems](https://apmdd.org/apmdd-urges-china-to-stop-financing-all-fossil-fuel-projects-and-to-support-the-transition-to-renewable-energy-systems/) - As we welcome the #LunarNewYear, we get rid of the negative energy to give room to positive things that we want to receive. We make plans to better our situations in life, and create lists that will guide our actions in the future. APMDD calls on China to lead these actions by sweeping away funding
- [Statement on US' Nominee for World Bank President](https://apmdd.org/statement-on-us-nominee-for-world-bank-president/) - We, the Asian Peoples' Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD) outrightly decry the decision of President Joe Biden to pick Ajay Banga, a Wall Street and corporate executive as the new World Bank president. For the Global South, this atrocious move points to where US interests really lie and how it will continue to steer
- [CSOs launch Philippine Citizens Debt Audit](https://apmdd.org/csos-launch-philippine-citizens-debt-audit/) - Renewing efforts to bring national gov’t debt under public scrutiny and shift payments away from questionable loans to support people’s needs and survival The call to examine the public debt – a legacy of debt dependence by the Marcos Sr. administration and carried through by successive Philippine administrations – echoed from leaders and respected individuals
- [To Governments at the COP27 and the G20 Summit: Deliver actions on climate and economic justice!](https://apmdd.org/to-governments-at-the-cop27-and-the-g20-summit-deliver-actions-on-climate-and-economic-justice/) - As COP27 and the G20 Summit begin to wind down, the updates so far are filled with news of scant outcomes and lack of agreement on key issues. World leaders and decision-makers assembled at these two important spaces to respond to the escalating global crises have a huge responsibility to deliver meaningful and tangible outcomes
- [Activities for the 2023 Global Protest to Fight Inequality](https://apmdd.org/activities-for-the-2023-global-protest-to-fight-inequality/) - The world’s wealthiest and most well-connected figures in business and politics gather this month in Davos, Switzerland to discuss “tangible, system-positive change for the long term” under the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Annual Meeting. While the WEF promises this year to tackle ways to address the various crises in climate, energy transition, Global South debt,
- [APMDD mobilizes against the recently concluded Japan Energy Summit](https://apmdd.org/apmdd-mobilizes-against-the-recently-concluded-japan-energy-summit/) - Climate activists APMDD, PMCJ, Sanlakas, Oriang in the Philipppines, WALHI in Indonesia, and CLEAN Bangladesh in Bangladesh have staged mobilizations against the recently concluded Japan Energy Summit where companies and the Japan govt promoted fossil gas and other false solutions such as hydrogen and ammonia as integral investment plans. The summit's co-sponsor, JERA, is the
- [APMDD at #COP27: Reparations for Climate Debt Now!](https://apmdd.org/apmdd-at-cop27-reparations-for-climate-debt-now/)
- [APMDD at #COP27: Pay for Loss and Damage Now!](https://apmdd.org/apmdd-at-cop27-pay-for-loss-and-damage-now/)
- [APMDD at #COP27: End Fossil Fuels Now!](https://apmdd.org/apmdd-at-cop27-asian-voices-at-uncc-day-3/)
- [Amids the climate crisis: Defend our rights to food, land, and water!](https://apmdd.org/amids-the-climate-crisis-defend-our-rights-to-food-land-and-water/)
- [Work for progressive taxation – Philippine Senator Hontiveros](https://apmdd.org/work-for-progressive-taxation-philippine-senator-hontiveros/) - The Philippines’ first socialist woman senator called on legislators and tax justice advocates to work together for progressive taxation that will reduce the tax burden of the poor and secure revenues for public services. View Post
- [Reject false solutions! We demand debt cancellation NOW!](https://apmdd.org/reject-false-solutions-we-demand-debt-cancellation-now/) - As the G7 held their annual meeting in the UK last June 2021, APMDD held debt actions in the Philippines, Indonesia, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh to raise anew the global call for debt cancellation. The meeting of G20 finance ministers from July 9-10 only reiterated the G7 positions of promoting limited, temporary and meager debt
- [FIGHTING INEQUALITIES IN THE GLOBAL TAX SYSTEM: Stop the foxes from building the chicken coop](https://apmdd.org/fighting-inequalities-in-the-global-tax-system-stop-the-foxes-from-building-the-chicken-coop/) - Global tax rules are biased in favor of multinational corporations, rich countries, and the world’s elite. Corporate tax abuses and other illicit financial flows remain unchecked, bleeding economies dry and depriving people of health, education, and other public services. Inequalities in the global tax system worsen inequalities everywhere. The ‘tax deal’ proposed by the OECD/G7/G20
- [Online Rally on Matarbari Coal Power Hub](https://apmdd.org/online-rally-on-matarbari-coal-power-hub/) - Highlights of the Online Rally on Matabari Coal Power Hub on September 23, in solidarity with the grassroots resistance against the coal plant. People in Bangladesh already experience the worst impacts of the climate crisis — and building more coal plants will make climate change impacts worse. People are calling on Japan to stop funding
- [APMDD slams AIIB support for gas projects](https://apmdd.org/apmdd-slams-aiib/) - APMDD together with the Philippine Movement for Climate Justice, Sanlakas, Oriang, and NGO Forum on ADB held an action today against the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank’s (AIIB) continued support for gas projects despite a new energy policy that focuses on “Sustainable Energy for Tomorrow.” AIIB recently published its Energy Sector Strategy Update, the latest energy
- [Countdown to #InternationalWomensDay](https://apmdd.org/countdown-to-internationalwomensday/) - It's countdown to #InternationalWomensDay. Let's salute the courage and creativity of women in the frontlines of the fight for economic justice and system change. This #8for8, we give tribute to the brave women who bear the hopes and dreams of their families and our communities and continue to stand at the frontlines of the struggle
- [In solidarity with the people of Sri Lanka and Pakistan](https://apmdd.org/in-solidarity-with-the-people-of-sri-lanka-and-pakistan/) - The people of Sri Lanka and Pakistan are facing unimaginable suffering from crises they did not cause – the crisis of debt and the crisis of climate. From years before the pandemic, both countries have been accumulating unsustainable debt, which eventually COVID-19 pushed to record-high debt levels in recent years. This situation brought Sri Lanka to the point of
- [Building our Collective Power for Immediate and Long-term Change: An Urgent Call to Scale Up in Scope, Speed and Intensity*](https://apmdd.org/eurodad-webinar-2021/) - I have been in the field of photography for over 17 years and have over 100 photos to my name. I am based in North Carolina. So if you want to create a moment, I can help you get thereI have loved being a part of the creative process
- [Activists stage 'Yakee Awards' vs Asia's Dirtiest Companies](https://apmdd.org/yakee-awards/) - While the World LNG Summit and Awards is taking place in Greece, activists from APMDD, Philippine Movement for Climate Justice, Sanlakas, and Oriang stage the "Yakee Awards" for Asia's Dirtiest Companies, top financiers of coal and gas in Asia. The action was held in front of the headquarters of San Miguel Corporation, one of the
- [ADC campaign spotlight on private companies that invest in coal and fossil fuels](https://apmdd.org/adc-campaign-spotlight-on-private-companies-that-invest-in-coal-and-fossil-fuels/) - The ADC campaign puts a spotlight on private companies that invest in coal and fossil fuels, and the banks and financial institutions that fund them despite calls for keeping the Earth’s temperature at livable levels. We call on companies that continue to invest in dirty energy to make a #TotalCoalExitNow. The DIRTY BIT The Asia’s
- [Module 1-5: A Toolkit on Illicit Financial Flows](https://apmdd.org/a-toolkit-on-illicit-financial-flows/) - By Sakshi Rai, Andres Arauz, Francois Godbout, Grace Mbogo, Luis Moreno, Mae Buenaventura and Robert Ssuuna The Toolkit on Illicit Financial Flows is an easy and accessible resource for enthusiasts, activists, civil society organisations, practitioners and journalists. Designed in a modular format, the toolkit aims to enable evidence-based advocacy from the perspective of developing countries
- [Briefs on Energy and Energy Finance of Selected Asian Countries](https://apmdd.org/briefs-on-energy-and-energy-financeof-selected-asian-countries/) - Click to view/download PDF A look into the current state of energy and how fossil fuel projects are financed (2021 edition)
- [Use and Abuse of Tax Breaks: How Tax Incentives Become Harmful](https://apmdd.org/use-and-abuse-of-tax-breaks-how-tax-incentives-become-harmful/) - Click to view/download PDF This report examines how tax incentives are, largely, unnecessary, redundant, inefficient and ineffective; and explores the role of financial transparency in curbing the rampant abuse of tax systems that undermines democracy and handicaps governments’ capacity to adequately tackle inequalities and fully realise human rights for all.
- [Asia Debt Monitor](https://apmdd.org/asia-debt-monitor/) - Click to view/download PDF
- [APMDD in Japan: <em>The Role of Japan in the Struggle for Climate Justice from an Asian Perspective</em>](https://apmdd.org/apmdd-in-japan-the-role-of-japan-in-the-struggle-for-climate-justice-from-an-asian-perspective/) - APMDD Coordinator Lidy Nacpil discusses the "The Role of Japan in the Struggle for Climate Justice from an Asian Perspective" before the members of the Japanese Parliament at the First Members’ Office Building of the House of Representatives, Nagatachō, Chiyoda City, Tokyo, Japan.
- [APMDD in Thailand: farmers stand up against false solutions and programs](https://apmdd.org/apmdd-in-thailand-farmers-stand-up-against-false-solutions-and-programs/) - Climate Watch Thailand & farmers in the lower Northern region of Thailand share how climate change has delayed their crop cycles & reduced farm productivity. They stand up against false solutions & programs introduced by the Ministry of Agriculture & Cooperatives.
- [Solidarity with the women of Sri Lanka on Asian Women's Day](https://apmdd.org/solidarity-with-the-women-of-sri-lanka-on-asian-womens-day/) - The Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD) expresses solidarity with the women of Sri Lanka who struggle amidst the worst economic crisis in their nation’s history.
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- [About](https://apmdd.org/about/) - The Focus of APMDD’s work APMDD believes in social transformation that is all encompassing and interrelated: it is economic, political, cultural and environmental and has class, ethnicity/race and gender dimensions. As its contribution to social transformation, it will focus on:People-Centered Development, Economic and Environmental Rights and Justice PROGRAMS Global Finance and Public Finance Transforming the
- [Dhaka demands tax justice; pushes to institute a wealth tax and address unfair tax burdens on women](https://apmdd.org/dhaka-demands-tax-justice-pushes-to-institute-a-wealth-tax-and-address-unfair-tax-burdens-on-women/) - A protest action was held in Dhaka demanding tax justice on January 20 in front of the National Press Club to call for tax justice, led by the Bangladesh Krishok Federation - BKF together with workers' organizations, students, and communities affected by regressive tax policies in Bangladesh. The movements added that unfair tax burdens on
- [What is Gender-Based Violence?: The many forms of GBV](https://apmdd.org/the-fastest-way-to-luxury-your-business/) - The structural root causes of gender-based violence (GBV) run deep; thus, a comprehensive set of measures and actions are urgently needed to address the issue.
- [Bangladesh: Human chain and rally to demand justice in taxation in the extractive industries](https://apmdd.org/failures-make-you-home-better-only-if-you-understand/) - EARLIER IN BANGLADESH: A human chain and rally was held in front of the National Press Club to demand justice in taxation in the extractive industries by the initiative of the Bangladesh Krishok Federation. Speakers in the gathering said that there is no #TaxJustice in the domestic and foreign companies engaged in the extractive and
- [Civil society network asserts call for a UN Tax Convention, lambasts G20 for sticking to “fundamentally undemocratic Tax Deal of the Rich”](https://apmdd.org/civil-society-network-asserts-call-for-a-un-tax-convention-lambasts-g20-for-sticking-to-fundamentally-undemocratic-tax-deal-of-the-rich/) - “The G20 Summit in Bali is blocking any progress towards the negotiation of a UN Tax Convention that would address the issue of corporate tax abuses and illicit financial flows”, pronounced Lidy Nacpil, coordinator of the Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development, after the G20 released its Outcome Document November 16. “The G20 continues

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## Categories

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- [Debt Justice](https://apmdd.org/category/programs/debt-justice/)
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- [Sri Lanka](https://apmdd.org/category/members/srilanka/)
- [Anthology Essays](https://apmdd.org/category/programs/debt-justice/anthology-essays/) - Eight Critical Essays, Eight Decades of the IMF-WB The 80th anniversary of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank (IMF-WB) this year presents a timely and important opportunity for civil society and social movements to reiterate and amplify our demand for debt justice. Both institutions have been central in shaping an international financial system that has systematically plundered the Global South, and pushed structural adjustments and neoliberal policies that have caused far-reaching harm to people, communities, economies and the environment. The destruction continues to be inflicted on the Global South today. On the occasion of this year’s IMF-WB Annual Meeting, APMDD presents Eight Critical Essays on Eight Decades of IMF-WB, an anthology of insightful blog articles written by seasoned activists and thought leaders from social movements in different parts of the world. They provide critical analyses of the IMF-WB’s legacy in perpetuating stark inequalities in global power that continue to allow the net transfer of financial, socio-economic and environmental resources from the Global South to the Global North. With the publication of this collection, we hope to stress the urgency of putting a stop to the destruction that these institutions have and continue to wreak on peoples and the planet, and that it contributes to further galvanising action towards realizing a profound transformation of the current profit-driven, elite-led and extractivist global financial and economic system.
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- [climate justice assembly](https://apmdd.org/tag/climate-justice-assembly/)
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- [climate change](https://apmdd.org/tag/climate-change/)
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- [asia](https://apmdd.org/tag/asia/)
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- [Cancel the Debt](https://apmdd.org/tag/cancel-the-debt/)
- [Asia Debt Monitor](https://apmdd.org/tag/asia-debt-monitor/)
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- [United States Agency for International Development](https://apmdd.org/tag/united-states-agency-for-international-development/)
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- [Clean Energy Forum](https://apmdd.org/tag/clean-energy-forum/)
- [energy transition](https://apmdd.org/tag/energy-transition/)
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- [Loss and Damage Fund](https://apmdd.org/tag/loss-and-damage-fund/)
- [Loss and Damage](https://apmdd.org/tag/loss-and-damage/)
- [Briefer](https://apmdd.org/tag/briefer/)
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- [Special Drawing Rights](https://apmdd.org/tag/special-drawing-rights/)
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- [hydrogen](https://apmdd.org/tag/hydrogen/)
- [Debt Swaps](https://apmdd.org/tag/debt-swaps/)
- [Debt For Climate Swaps](https://apmdd.org/tag/debt-for-climate-swaps/)
- [Webinar](https://apmdd.org/tag/webinar/)
- [IMF-WB 8 Decades](https://apmdd.org/tag/imf-wb-8-decades/)
- [AEN Magazine](https://apmdd.org/tag/aen-magazine/)
- [end coal](https://apmdd.org/tag/end-coal/)
- [global day of action](https://apmdd.org/tag/global-day-of-action/)
- [Debt Justice Day](https://apmdd.org/tag/debt-justice-day/)
- [8 Critical Essays](https://apmdd.org/tag/8-critical-essays/)
- [fossil gas](https://apmdd.org/tag/fossil-gas/)
- [tokyo gx](https://apmdd.org/tag/tokyo-gx/)
- [METI](https://apmdd.org/tag/meti/)
- [ASEAN Summit](https://apmdd.org/tag/asean-summit/)
- [Ishiba](https://apmdd.org/tag/ishiba/)
- [GDoA 2024](https://apmdd.org/tag/gdoa-2024/)
- [Brochure](https://apmdd.org/tag/brochure/)
- [IPT](https://apmdd.org/tag/ipt/)
- [Annual Meetings](https://apmdd.org/tag/annual-meetings/)
- [principles](https://apmdd.org/tag/principles/)
- [CSER](https://apmdd.org/tag/cser/)
- [Civil Society Equity Review](https://apmdd.org/tag/civil-society-equity-review/)
- [ADM](https://apmdd.org/tag/adm/)
- [Contingent Liabilities](https://apmdd.org/tag/contingent-liabilities/)
- [Development Finance](https://apmdd.org/tag/development-finance/)
- [DevFin](https://apmdd.org/tag/devfin/)
- [papua LNG](https://apmdd.org/tag/papua-lng/)
- [totalenergies](https://apmdd.org/tag/totalenergies/)
- [exxonmobil](https://apmdd.org/tag/exxonmobil/)
- [santos and eneos](https://apmdd.org/tag/santos-and-eneos/)
- [jacses](https://apmdd.org/tag/jacses/)
- [tax the super rich](https://apmdd.org/tag/tax-the-super-rich/)
- [Asian Peoples' Petition for Public Services and Climate Action](https://apmdd.org/tag/asian-peoples-petition-for-public-services-and-climate-action/)
- [taxation](https://apmdd.org/tag/taxation/)
- [wealth tax](https://apmdd.org/tag/wealth-tax/)
- [wealth concentration](https://apmdd.org/tag/wealth-concentration/)
- [economic inequality](https://apmdd.org/tag/economic-inequality/)
- [Anthology Essays](https://apmdd.org/tag/anthology-essays/)
- [Solidarity Statement](https://apmdd.org/tag/solidarity-statement/)
- [Primer](https://apmdd.org/tag/primer/)
- [South](https://apmdd.org/tag/south/)
- [gas explosion](https://apmdd.org/tag/gas-explosion/)
- [putra heights](https://apmdd.org/tag/putra-heights/)
- [Illegitimate Debt](https://apmdd.org/tag/illegitimate-debt/)
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- [INSAF](https://apmdd.org/tag/insaf/)
- [Indian Social Action Forum](https://apmdd.org/tag/indian-social-action-forum/)
- [Bhumi Adhikar Andolan](https://apmdd.org/tag/bhumi-adhikar-andolan/)
- [Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union](https://apmdd.org/tag/jawaharlal-nehru-university-students-union/)
- [All India Kisan Sabha](https://apmdd.org/tag/all-india-kisan-sabha/)
- [AIKS](https://apmdd.org/tag/aiks/)
- [UN Convention on Debt](https://apmdd.org/tag/un-convention-on-debt/)
- [FfD](https://apmdd.org/tag/ffd/)
- [payup](https://apmdd.org/tag/payup/)
- [Financing for Development](https://apmdd.org/tag/financing-for-development/)
- [reparations](https://apmdd.org/tag/reparations/)
- [global south](https://apmdd.org/tag/global-south/)
- [Ramy Mohamed Yousef](https://apmdd.org/tag/ramy-mohamed-yousef/)
- [asean 2025](https://apmdd.org/tag/asean-2025/)
- [false solutions](https://apmdd.org/tag/false-solutions/)
- [fossil fuels](https://apmdd.org/tag/fossil-fuels/)
- [phaseout](https://apmdd.org/tag/phaseout/)
- [dontgasasia](https://apmdd.org/tag/dontgasasia/)
- [coal](https://apmdd.org/tag/coal/)
- [FfD4](https://apmdd.org/tag/ffd4/)
- [UN Debt Convention](https://apmdd.org/tag/un-debt-convention/)
- [jtwp](https://apmdd.org/tag/jtwp/)
- [Just Transition Work Programme](https://apmdd.org/tag/just-transition-work-programme/)
- [cop30](https://apmdd.org/tag/cop30/)
- [sb62](https://apmdd.org/tag/sb62/)
- [progressive taxation](https://apmdd.org/tag/progressive-taxation/)
- [pay up](https://apmdd.org/tag/pay-up/)
- [ff4d](https://apmdd.org/tag/ff4d/)
- [spain](https://apmdd.org/tag/spain/)
- [climate crisis](https://apmdd.org/tag/climate-crisis/)
- [gender-based violence](https://apmdd.org/tag/gender-based-violence/)
- [disasters](https://apmdd.org/tag/disasters/)
- [tax reform](https://apmdd.org/tag/tax-reform/)
- [public budget](https://apmdd.org/tag/public-budget/)
- [care work](https://apmdd.org/tag/care-work/)
- [unpaid work](https://apmdd.org/tag/unpaid-work/)
- [tax systems](https://apmdd.org/tag/tax-systems/)
- [regressive tax](https://apmdd.org/tag/regressive-tax/)
- [social protection](https://apmdd.org/tag/social-protection/)
- [Philippines](https://apmdd.org/tag/philippines/)
- [op-ed](https://apmdd.org/tag/op-ed/)
- [Women and Debt](https://apmdd.org/tag/women-and-debt/)
- [CSFFD](https://apmdd.org/tag/csffd/)
- [Infographic](https://apmdd.org/tag/infographic/)
- [Pakistan](https://apmdd.org/tag/pakistan/)
- [gender inequality](https://apmdd.org/tag/gender-inequality/)
- [public services](https://apmdd.org/tag/public-services/)
- [wealth inequality](https://apmdd.org/tag/wealth-inequality/)
- [Asian Peoples’ Petition on Wealth Taxation](https://apmdd.org/tag/asian-peoples-petition-on-wealth-taxation/)
- [poverty](https://apmdd.org/tag/poverty/)
- [National Hawkers’ Foundation](https://apmdd.org/tag/national-hawkers-foundation/)
- [India](https://apmdd.org/tag/india/)
- [minimum wage](https://apmdd.org/tag/minimum-wage/)
- [badyet](https://apmdd.org/tag/badyet/)
- [sistema ng pagbubuwis](https://apmdd.org/tag/sistema-ng-pagbubuwis/)
- [regresibong buwis](https://apmdd.org/tag/regresibong-buwis/)
- [bkkcaw](https://apmdd.org/tag/bkkcaw/)
- [parliamentarians for a fossil free future](https://apmdd.org/tag/parliamentarians-for-a-fossil-free-future/)
- [Bangkok Climate Action Week](https://apmdd.org/tag/bangkok-climate-action-week/)
- [Ploenchit](https://apmdd.org/tag/ploenchit/)
- [BPIEU](https://apmdd.org/tag/bpieu/)
- [KAMPPS](https://apmdd.org/tag/kampps/)
- [NCL](https://apmdd.org/tag/ncl/)
- [W4JT](https://apmdd.org/tag/w4jt/)
- [PMCJ](https://apmdd.org/tag/pmcj/)
- [BPI](https://apmdd.org/tag/bpi/)
- [Labor just transition agenda](https://apmdd.org/tag/labor-just-transition-agenda/)
- [Workers for just transition](https://apmdd.org/tag/workers-for-just-transition/)
- [jason valenzuela](https://apmdd.org/tag/jason-valenzuela/)
- [digo bikas](https://apmdd.org/tag/digo-bikas/)
- [blue zone](https://apmdd.org/tag/blue-zone/)
- [global transition mechanism](https://apmdd.org/tag/global-transition-mechanism/)
- [guama river](https://apmdd.org/tag/guama-river/)
- [copula dos povos](https://apmdd.org/tag/copula-dos-povos/)
- [amazon](https://apmdd.org/tag/amazon/)
- [elle bartolome](https://apmdd.org/tag/elle-bartolome/)
- [adaptation fund](https://apmdd.org/tag/adaptation-fund/)
- [global day of action for climate justice](https://apmdd.org/tag/global-day-of-action-for-climate-justice/)
- [Nov 15](https://apmdd.org/tag/nov-15/)
- [belem](https://apmdd.org/tag/belem/)
- [peoples summit](https://apmdd.org/tag/peoples-summit/)
- [Cyclone ditwah](https://apmdd.org/tag/cyclone-ditwah/)
- [AEN](https://apmdd.org/tag/aen/)
- [Stories from the ground](https://apmdd.org/tag/stories-from-the-ground/)
- [impacts of fossil gas](https://apmdd.org/tag/impacts-of-fossil-gas/)
- [gas expansion](https://apmdd.org/tag/gas-expansion/)
- [vasra](https://apmdd.org/tag/vasra/)
- [Department of Economy](https://apmdd.org/tag/department-of-economy/)
- [Malacañang](https://apmdd.org/tag/malacanang/)
- [capital flight](https://apmdd.org/tag/capital-flight/)
- [dedicated tax](https://apmdd.org/tag/dedicated-tax/)
- [IMF-WB Spring Meeting](https://apmdd.org/tag/imf-wb-spring-meeting/)
- [protest](https://apmdd.org/tag/protest/)
- [Stop the harm](https://apmdd.org/tag/stop-the-harm/)
- [santa marta](https://apmdd.org/tag/santa-marta/)
- [colombia](https://apmdd.org/tag/colombia/)
- [First International Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels](https://apmdd.org/tag/first-international-conference-on-transitioning-away-from-fossil-fuels/)
- [Equitable](https://apmdd.org/tag/equitable/)
- [People’s Declaration for a Rapid](https://apmdd.org/tag/peoples-declaration-for-a-rapid/)
- [and Just Transition for a Fossil-Fre](https://apmdd.org/tag/and-just-transition-for-a-fossil-fre/)
- [48th ASEAN](https://apmdd.org/tag/48th-asean/)
- [FRLD](https://apmdd.org/tag/frld/)
- [fillthefund](https://apmdd.org/tag/fillthefund/)
- [Energy Policy Review](https://apmdd.org/tag/energy-policy-review/)
- [anthology](https://apmdd.org/tag/anthology/)
- [UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation](https://apmdd.org/tag/un-framework-convention-on-international-tax-cooperation/)
- [allocation of taxing rights](https://apmdd.org/tag/allocation-of-taxing-rights/)
- [extractives](https://apmdd.org/tag/extractives/)
- [sustainable development](https://apmdd.org/tag/sustainable-development/)
- [illicit financial flows](https://apmdd.org/tag/illicit-financial-flows/)
- [United Nations](https://apmdd.org/tag/united-nations/)
- [High Net-Worth Individuals](https://apmdd.org/tag/high-net-worth-individuals/)
- [Sustainable Development Goals](https://apmdd.org/tag/sustainable-development-goals/)
- [Charles Santiago](https://apmdd.org/tag/charles-santiago/)
- [Global Tax Rules](https://apmdd.org/tag/global-tax-rules/)
- [tax and fiscal justice](https://apmdd.org/tag/tax-and-fiscal-justice/)
- [Unitary Taxation](https://apmdd.org/tag/unitary-taxation/)
- [Global Alliance for Tax Justice](https://apmdd.org/tag/global-alliance-for-tax-justice/)
- [Tax and Fiscal Justice Asia](https://apmdd.org/tag/tax-and-fiscal-justice-asia/)
- [Taxing Multinational Corporations](https://apmdd.org/tag/taxing-multinational-corporations/)