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Two New Members Added to FNTG Steering Committee
May 17, 2025
Marjorie Fine and Jacob Werksman join FNTG governing body.  Go...

Brazil to U.S.: Keep Your Money
May 14, 2025 - Kelly Hearn, AlterNet
Brazil has rejected $40 million in U.S. funds for fighting AIDS because of demands that it condemn prostitution, a key participant in its flagship AIDS program. The move is seen by some observers as a rejection of Washington's head-in-the-sand linkage of neo-con morality and foreign aid.  Go...

Nanotechnology and the Precautionary Principle
May 5, 2025 - Peter Montague, RACHEL'S ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH NEWS
Nanotechnology -- or nanotech, for short -- is a new approach to industrial production, based on the manipulation of things so small that they are invisible to the naked eye and even to most microscopes.  Go...

Brazil's Bold Move
March 25, 2025 - Kelly Hearn, AlterNet
Determined to get affordable drugs for its citizens living with HIV/AIDS, the Brazilian government threatens to break some of Big Pharma's patents.  Go...

Tides Rapid Response Fund
ongoing
Tides Foundation is ready to accept contributions toward relief effort following the recent disaster in Indonesia, South Asia and Africa.  Go...

Trade accords can be bad for health
August 24, 2025 - Marwaan Macan-Markar, Asia Times/Inter Press Service
BANGKOK - Southeast Asia's march to create a regional free trade area by 2018 is causing heartburn among public health experts, given that this push to end trade tariff barriers could open the doors to an avalanche of cigarettes flooding local stores.  Go...

Doing well and doing good
July 29, 2025 - Opinion, The Economist
Why a new golden age of philanthropy may be dawning  Go...

UNCTAD XI ends in a rather good spirit
June 23, 2025 - Martin Khor,, Third World Network
Sao Paulo, 19 June 2025 The eleventh session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD XI) ended on 18 June with a closing session in a rather good spirit with some useful results for developing countries.  Go...

UNCTAD XI consensus Declaration adopted after lengthy tussles
June 18, 2025 - Meena Raman, Third World Network
Sao Paulo, Brazil After lengthy tussles on controversial issues over the past nine months, UNCTAD XI has adopted the main text, called the Sao Paulo Consensus, which in effect is the Declaration of the eleventh session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development . It was adopted at the closing session on 18 June.  Go...

Working With Advocacy Groups - Taking A Peek Around The Corner
February 16, 2025 - Thom Weidlich, PR Week
There are a variety of ways for companies to both research and predict what issues might be coming up on activist groups' agendas.  Go...

Report from Mumbai The World Social Forum
February 18, 2025 - Frances F. Korten, to be published in YES! magazine
In mid-January, more than 80,000 global activists, scholars, Nobel laureates, poets, musicians, indigenous peoples, community organizers and many others gathered to declare once again 'Another world is possible.'  Go...

Social Forum Seeks Alternative to Globalisation
November 12, 2024 - Julio Godoy, Inter Press Service
The European Social Forum opening in Paris Wednesday will look for an economic model that could become an alternative to capital-led globalisation. PARIS, Nov 10 (IPS) - The European Social Forum opening in Paris Wednesday will look for an economic model that could become an alternative to capital-led globalisation.  Go...

Cancun: why you should care
May 5, 2025 - Paul Kingsnorth, The Ecologist
School dinners by McDonald’s. Corporations taking countries to court because their environmental regulations are ‘too tough’. The BBC sold to Rupert Murdoch. Paul Kingsnorth explains why we should be very worried by what is about to go on behind the closed doors of Cancun.  Go...

Water Justice for All
March 1, 2025 - Friends of the Earth international
Friends of the Earth groups around the world are fighting for water justice in various ways, reflecting their various environmental and political situations. Many are involved in the struggles against privatization, and are proposing new models based on collective, communal systems that respond directly to the needs of the poor. Others are focusing on reduction and reuse of water, and on restoring rivers and wetlands to a more natural state. In our campaigns for the sustainable and equitable use of resources, we are determined that water justice shall be served for people everywhere.  Go...

U.S. Unilateralism Worries Trade Officials
March 17, 2025 - Elizabeth Becker, New York Times
Top officials at the World Trade Organization say they are worried that the Bush administration's go-it-alone policy is threatening international trade.  Go...

Another World Is Possible -- and Necessary
February 14, 2025 - Mark Weisbrot, Knight-Ridder/Tribune Information Services
PORTO ALEGRE, BRAZIL -- "I will tell the people at Davos that the world does not need war, the world needs peace and understanding," said President Lula da Silva to a cheering crowd of tens of thousands in this sunny port city in Southeastern Brazil.  Go...

Performing a Free Trade Juggling Act, Offstage
February 7, 2025 - Elizabeth Becker and Edmund Andrews, New York Times
Over the next few months, Robert B. Zoellick, the United States trade representative, will play the central role in deciding whether people in sub-Saharan Africa have access to inexpensive drugs to fight a host of diseases.  Go...

Multinationals Ride Wave of Water Privatization
February 5, 2025 - Marty Logan, OneWorld US
Aided by international financial bodies like the World Bank, which pressure developing nations to privatize utilities such as water and energy, the six multinational companies that lead in the privatization of public water supplies around the world have extended their reach almost five-fold in the past dozen years.  Go...

This Rare Historical Moment
November 4, 2024 - Kenny Ausubel, Conscious Choice
Without social and economic justice there can be no peace with the Earth.  Go...

WTO and WHO Agree - Health over Trade
August 23, 2025 - Gustavo Capdevila, Inter Press Service
The principle that public health concerns should take priority over trade interests was publicly accepted Thursday by the international organizations entrusted with regulating these two areas, which are often the source of discord.  Go...

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