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Thousands of victims of pesticide poisoning in Nicaragua are demanding medical and financial aid, which the government has failed to provide. Multinational companies that use the pesticides Nemagon and Fumazone are also being sued for billion of dollars in reparation for the damages.

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Six years after its launch, more than 90 civil society organisations from both developed and developing countries across the globe are now urging their respective trade minister to declare the Doha Development Round “dead.”

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Anti-free trade agreement (FTA) activists were arrested and hurt by the police during a rally at the venue of the 40th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting in Manila, Philippines.  Protesters claim that the FTA only advances the interests of corporations at the expense of the people’s needs.

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Two years after the adoption of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness that set out new aid modalities, questions on how to integrate gender equality and women’s empowerment in the promotion of development remain at the forefront of discussions and debates.

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Human rights activists in the Philippines are staging protest actions that call for the repeal of the Human Security Act of 2007, or the Anti-Terror Law, which took effect on July 15. Protesters fear the law will become a means to justify militarisation and suppression of dissent against the government, and promote terror, rather than peace, among citizens.

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A year after the institution-building processes of the UN Human Rights Council, which replaced the discredited Commission on Human Rights, civil society and human rights defenders still call for the Council to ensure greater NGO participation and effective gender integration in all its work.