Third World Network (TWN)

Third World Network (TWN) is an independent non-profit international research and advocacy organisation involved in issues relating to development, developing countries and North-South affairs.

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Chee Yoke Ling

• Currently based in: China, Asia Pacific

• Other affiliations: IWRAW-AP, ETC Group

• Email: twnet@po.jaring.my

• Publications and resources:

  • Webinar: Mobilising for a Feminist Trade Justice within the UN. Organised by IWRAW-AP and the Gender and Trade Coalition (2020).

  • Corporate Rights vs. Human Rights: A Presentation by Chee Yoke Ling and Karina Yong at the Global South Women’s Forum on Sustainable Development: South East Asia Regional Consultation (April 2019).

  • Financing for development as a means for eradicating poverty and promoting prosperity from the right to development perspective - Statement at OHCHR’s 18th session of the working group on the right to development (31 May 2017).

Kinda Mohamadieh

• Currently based in: Lebanon, Middle East

• Other affiliations: The Graduate Institute, Geneva (IHEID)

• Email: kindam@twnetwork.org

• Publications and resources:

  • Podcast: Building Back Better with Courage to Redistribute Power. FES Geneva (2020) - Caroline Dommen (host) is speaking with Olivier De Schutter (UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights), Kinda Mohamadieh (TWN), and Karin Pape (WIEGO). In this podcast, the imbalances of power within and between societies as well as between the interests of pure business and the wealth of a society are at the heart of the discussion.

  • Intervention by Kinda Mohamadieh at UNCTAD IIA expert meeting 2019. Session on: Promoting and facilitating investment and the WTO Structured Discussions on Investment Facilitation.

  • Mohamadieh, K. (2018). ‘The role and accountability of the private sector in development processes.’ Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND).

  • Mohamadieh, K. and Uribe, D. (2016). ‘The rise of investor-state dispute settlement in the extractive sectors: challenges and considerations for African countries.’ Research Paper 65. South Centre.

  • Mohamadieh, K. (6 April 2015). ‘A Long History of Predatory Practices Against Developing Countries.’ IPS.

Bhumika Muchhala

• Currently based in: India, Asia Pacific

• Other affiliations: The New School (New York, USA)

• Email: bhumika@twnetwork.org

• Publications and resources:

  • Sonkin, F. and Muchhala, B. (22 April 2021). ‘It’s time for the World Bank to scrap its Doing Business rankings.’ Aljazeera.

  • Muchhala, B. (2021). ‘Tip of the iceberg: How the call for SDRs reveals the urgency for deeper reforms of the global reserve system to address systemic inequalities.’ Bretton Woods Project.

  • Muchhala, B. (2020). ‘Covid-19 reveals everything: The intertwined health and economic crisis calls for urgent responses, systemic reform and ideological rethink of the international financial architecture’. TWN Briefing Paper. Third World Network.

  • Bhumika Muchhala on Trade, Economics and Development in SDGs (2014)

  • Muchhala, B. (2012). ‘Barricades to Gender Equity in the International Financial Architecture.’ Development, 55(3): pp. 283-290.

Ranja Sangupta

• Currently based in: India, Asia Pacific

• Email: ranja.sengupta2@gmail.com

• Publications and resources:

  • Sangupta, R. (22 April 2020). ‘COVID-19: Trade policy choices during and after pandemic.’ TWN Info Service on WTO and Trade Issues (Apr20/17). Third World Network.

  • Sangupta, S. (July 4 2018). ‘Addressing Gender and Trade Issues in Trade Agreements: Creating more problems than solutions?.’ DAWN Informs July 2018 Edition. DAWN. Suva (Fiji). pp. 11-12.

  • The experiences of Indian women: Ranja Sengupta at the Feminist Forum against Free Trade. DAWN (6 June 2018).

  • ‘Women are losing out’: Interview with Ranja Sangupta on the effects of trade and investment liberalization. Sef: Development and Peace Foundation (25 September 2017).

  • Trade liberalisation and women’s livelihood: Interview with Ranja Sengupta. APWLD Podcast (September 21 2016).

  • Sengupta, R. and Gopinath, A. (2010). ‘The Current Trade Framework and Gender Linkages in Developing Economies: An Introductory Survey of Issues with Special Reference to India.’ Working Papers id:2536, eSocialSciences.