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.
Real commitments on human rights, financing and macroeconomic reforms that would help developing countries, and regulation of the private sector remain absent from the draft document of the Rio+20 outcome document, warns international civil society organization, IBON International.
EDM (Vol. 10 No. 3) COVER STORY Green Economy: Gain or pain for the Earth’s poor? Geoengineering: Risky techno-fix for climate change FEATURES
EDM (Vol. 10 No. 2) COVER STORY Time for a New Paradigm What does wage-led growth mean in developing countries with large informal employment?
EDM (Vol. 10 No. 1) COVER STORY The Year of Living Dangerously Rising Commodity Prices and Extreme Weather Events Threaten Global Stability FEATURES
Despite the optimism placed on them, the Cancun Agreements of the 2010 UN Climate Summit do not represent a success for multilateralism; neither do they put the world on a safe climate pathway that science demands, and far less to a just and equitable transition towards a sustainable model of development. They represent a victory for big polluters and Northern elites that wish to continue with business-as-usual.
As the world’s leaders gather at the Moon Palace Hotel in Cancun, Mexico for the 16th COP of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, thousands of peasants, indigenous peoples, youth, women, workers, advocates and many other sectors and communities from all over the world marched the streets of downtown Cancun this morning to call for ‘system change, not climate change.
People of Bangladesh along with other nations of the world protested in Cancun, Mexico last Thursday against the role of the developed countries and demanded to keep the World Bank (WB) out of climate financing.
EDM (Vol. 9 No. 6) COVER STORY Rio+20: Addressing the crisis of Sustainable Development Talking about an energy and jobs revolution Havana harvest: Organic
EDM (Vol. 9 No. 5) COVER STORY Reforming Finance Asia and the Financial Crisis: Asset Price Bubbles and Capital Controls Making Money Work: How
EDM (Vol. 9. No. 4) COVER STORY Women in Asia: Surviving and Resisting the Crisis SPECIAL FEATURE Impacts of the Economic Crisis to
EDM (Vol. 9 No. 3) COVER STORY: MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS The MDG Promise: Sweeping Neoliberal Dirt Under the Rug Case study: MDGs in the
EDM (Vol. 9 No. 2) COVER STORY Proposed Global Land Guidelines: Peddling “Acceptable” Land Grabbing 50 Years of Meaningless Research is Enough! Roundtable Discussion
In celebration of the centenary of the International Toiling Women’s Day in 2010, the Asia-Pacific Research Network (APRN) initiated the ‘Women Resisting Crisis and War: a conference on the impacts and women’s responses to the economic and climate crisis and war’. The conference provided space to women, girls, and men from civil society organizations, including grassroots movements, academia, and other stakeholder to understand the synergistic impacts of war, climate change and neoliberal policies which have been forced on women; to deliberate and learn the various forms of resistance that women’s individual and collective efforts have put forward; and to learn and develop new learning and strategies for resisting and overcoming neoliberal and neo-colonial militaristic onslaught.
EDM (Vol. 9 No. 1) EDITORIAL Fuelling Strife SPECIAL FEATURE A Delta of Great Contention Novelist, Activist, Martyr Africa: Obama Moves Ahead with
EDM (Vol. 8 No. 6) COVER STORY COP out in Copenhagen People’s Action and Voices on the Global Climate Crisis STATEMENT For a