Sameer Dossani

Sameer writes on issues of trade justice, environmental justice and women’s rights.

International Advocacy Coordinator: Reshaping Global Power
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Sameer Dossani has been working on issues of debt, development, human rights and the international financial institutions for over 10 years, including as Executive Director of 50 Years Is Enough: U.S. Network for Global Economic Justice. Sameer is ActionAid’s expert on the ‘BRICS’, including Brazil, Russia, India and China.  He has been working on international economic justice issues for over 10 years, including leading the international network on accountability of the Asian Development Bank and the U.S. Network for Economic Justice. 

Latest blogs

Rio+20 - The Corporate Empires Strike Back?

Representatives of world governments are gathering this week in Rio de Janeiro for the final round of negotiations prior to next week’s Earth Summit. The gathering, commemorating twenty years since...
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Sameer Dossani

BRICS Bank - A new model?

World leaders from key emerging economies met here in Delhi yesterday and agreed to begin the process of creating a new development bank.The agreement was one of the primary outcomes in the BRICS...
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Sameer Dossani

Asia's Agriculture at a Crossroads

As the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) holds its 31st Regional Conference for Asia and the Pacific in Hanoi next week, leaders would do well to consider the stark choice before them....
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Sameer Dossani

Another South Asia is possible!

More than 10 years after the first World Social Forum took place in Porto Alegre, Brazil, the latest South Asia Social Forum is already underway in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Like all Social Forum events,...
Streets of Dhaka
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Sameer Dossani

A food system based on human rights

Like any economy, the food economy has three basic components: production, distribution and consumption. But food is a very particular kind of commodity: it’s also a human right and has long been...
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Sameer Dossani
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