Photo by Carlo Manalansan / Bulatlat.com IBON International welcomes the OHCHR report as a move towards holding state perpetrators and other complicit actors accountable on
IBON International, a southern-based international non-government organization, stands in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement in the US in demanding justice for all the
The United Nation’s Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific’s (ESCAP) 2020 progress report on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) admitted that the
In photo: Collective land cultivation in Negros Occidental, Philippines. Photo by NFSW in Tariman-Acosta, 2017 The 5th UN Environment Assembly will be convened early in
*Note: The Philippines’ Anti-Terror Bill, mentioned below, was signed into law by the President last 4 July. Read our quick response to its passage here.
Photos: Carlo Manalansan & Wikimedia Commons If the Bank’s recent meeting and related public reports are an indication of the Bank’s direction, peoples and their
Photo: Wikimedia Commons At the 7th Asia Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development, held virtually on May 20, 2020, the Council for People’s Development and Governance
Photo: Priest Fr. Marco Sulayao, one of the 42 activists in Iloilo, cuffed by police / Still frame from a video by Panay Today We
For IBON International, this time of health, economic, and indeed, a “development crisis,” requires turning away from merely supporting the old economic and development paradigms,
For civil society and peoples’ movements, vigilance against abuses and solidarity with grassroots struggles are most necessary in the face of a pushback against peoples’
Photo: Debt relief is among our Eight Global Action Points in responding to the current world situation. Current international measures on developing countries’ debts are
“The current global system of production and consumption is unsustainable and profit-driven for the benefit of the elite few. It must be replaced by systems
The RCEP and other trade negotiations must be stopped as governments and citizens must put all their efforts towards saving lives and addressing the pandemic
Photo: “Deaths caused by COVID-19 in selected European countries per 1 million inhabitants.” Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 Regional Dispatch – IBON Europe20 April 2020
The world is at a critical juncture. States’ responses and measures that only aim to prop up the pre-pandemic system of corporate giants, ultra-wealthy capital-holders,
IBON International identified eight global action points that aim to directly address the rights, needs and welfare of Southern peoples amid the COVID-19 pandemic and