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IBON assessment of Durban COP 17 |
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Written by Administrator
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Friday, 23 December 2011 14:55 |
The Durban Package: escape hatches, empty shells, and a death notice to equity< IBON assessment of the Durban climate change summit
The next ten years could decide whether the world’s fight against climate change is lost or won. The Durban Package – the set of decisions agreed to in the summit – amounts to more heavy lifting for the South, less obligations for the North, and little help for the poor. Worse still, it means that the present decade will be a decade of zero progress in curbing global emissions, and one where equity as the basis of the global climate effort will have been abandoned.
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India down shutters against FDI in Retail |
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Written by Administrator
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Monday, 05 December 2011 11:58 |
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The trading community and associations of street vendors successfully organized the All India Trade Strike against FDI in Retail. Tens of millions of outlets remained closed throughout India. No major market opened in any Indian city. The strike was near complete in big cities including Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Delhi, Hyderabad, Shimla, Lucknow, Jaipur, Kota, Kanpur, Amritsar, Ludhiana, and Varanasi. We congratulate all our allies for the unprecedented resistance against superstores.
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Peasants all over the country march for land, rights, social justice |
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Written by MARYA SALAMAT
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Monday, 07 November 2011 00:38 |
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MANILA – “It is us farmers who produce food for our country but we are forced to live in poverty and bear the brunt of the killing rampages by the military,” said Antonio Kasipas in Filipino, spokesman of UMALPAS Ka-Bikol, at the concluding program of the week-long, nationwide commemoration of peasant month last Friday at the Mendiola Bridge (now Chino Roces Bridge). His message was echoed in different speeches at other protest rallies in the Philippines where similar tales of peasant struggles, a major cause of unrest and armed struggle in the Philippines, were aired last week.
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ANTI-PEOPLE NEOLIBERAL DOGMA IN G20 SUMMIT >> MEANS AGGRAVATION OF GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS |
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Written by Administrator
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Friday, 04 November 2011 13:58 |
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By Prof. Jose Maria Sison Chairperson International League of Peoples' Struggle 27 October 2011
The G20 summit is to be held in Cannes, France on November 3 and 4. Assisted by their finance ministers and heads of central banks, the heads of governments of the worldÂ’s twenty largest economies are supposed to confront once more the global economic and financial crisis and seek solutions.
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International Festival for People’s Rights and Struggles (IFPRS) Website launching. |
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Written by Administrator
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Friday, 04 November 2011 12:40 |
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IBON International is pleased to announce the launching of the International Festival for People’s Rights and Struggles (IFPRS) Website. Papers, presentations, photos, videos and proceedings of the various events can now be viewed and downloaded from the site,
To access the site, kindly follow this link and spread the word about IFPRS widely.
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