Mahmoud Alhiti and Batool Kareem of the Iraqi Social Forum tell the story about the steps the ISF took in order to set a new course forward following major challenges of the pandemic and social unrest. Their experiences provide...
A "Global Call to Action" has been issued to call for an emergency suspension of the intellectual property rights on products that would protect, contain, and treat COVID-19.
Ivan Phell Enrile writes on the “inside” advocacy work of South movements that have gained access to the COP meetings, and the policy demands that they will be working for in Glasgow. Part II of a two-part series on...
The “Southern People’s Action on COP26” writes the efforts of those movements who have not been able to travel to Glasgow for the UN climate talks and who are mobilizing for "outside advocacy" in the streets. Part 1 of...
R. Vaishno Bharati reflects on how the growing role of “meme culture” around the world has supplemented the efforts of social movements in the Global South.
Amali Wedagedara writes about the 55-day protest of women in Sri Lanka against microfinance, and the collective's shared vision for a new development model in the Global South.
What is needed for a world without forced migration? This is the question that migrant groups from across the Asia-Pacific region have asked and presented on during a recent review of the UN's Global Compact on Migration (GCM)....
K.M. (Gopa) Gopakumar from TWN writes about the need to advocate for the vaccine as a global public good, to scale up production and provide access to efficacious vaccines, and that it is vital to support the current proposal...
Sarojeni Rengam (Malaysia) writes about how COVID-19 pandemic has also exposed a number of other critical systemic holes in other sectors including agriculture and food production.
Stop the Wall reflects on the global "World Without Walls" campaign that aims to connect struggles against militarization and discrimination from India to Brazil, from the Philippines to Argentina, from Malaysia to California, and beyond.