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In a seminar on "SDG and Paris Climate Conference: Redlines in View of MVCs People Expectations", civil society leaders urged the Prime Minister to lead the climate negotiation process and take the position for a Legally Binding Agreement in climate, which is indispensible for survival of MVC counties.
On the occasion of the erection of a monument to commemorate the assassination of four land rights activists from the Southern Peasant Federation in Thailand, Focus on the Global South would like to express its solidarity.
Southern Peasant Federation of Thailand
In the last century there has been a dramatic decrease in global seed diversity, of which the Food and Agriculture Organisation reported in 2010 that 75 percent of the world’s crop diversity had already been lost.
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Press Release
MANILA, 23 June 2015 – 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.
:Tax policies and systems should be aimed at raising resources for people's basic and development needs, not as instrumental for ensuring more profits for corporations and the wealthy," said Lidy Nacpil, coordinator of the Asian Peoples' Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD), in a statement.
