Solidarity in Action:
Our Projects

Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA, as the global justice organisation of the Australian union movement, works to support stronger union and social movements in thirteen locations in Southeast Asia, the Pacific, the Middle East, and Southern Africa. We do that by working in partnership with thirty-nine local unions and community organisations through thirty projects and campaigns.

Our approach to development and movement-building work is centred in values of partnership, solidarity, equality, justice, and accountability.

We provide on-the-ground assistance which aims to address the causes of injustice and inequality, not the symptoms.

We support organised movements of people to make their own change possible, by exerting political pressure for just and sustainable solutions.

We recognise our solidarity with the working classes and marginalised people of the Global South and stand with them, as together we struggle for a better world.

We seek to deploy funds in effective and strategic ways, with accountability to partner organisations, funding bodies and our own members.

Here are some of the projects and campaigns we undertake in collaboration with communities in our region and beyond:

By working to support strong movements of people, we can fight inequality and corporate greed. History shows us we can demand a just world.

Kate Lee

Executive Officer, Union Aid Abroad - APHEDA

To learn more about how we put our solidarity into action, take a look at the 2023 Annual Report, where you can read about our partnerships and projects, the activism and advocacy of our members, and the progress of our campaign to ban asbestos across Asia.

Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA’s partner organisations joined rallies and events to mark International Women’s Day this year.
Australia has supported Palestinian non-government organisations for over 40 years. During that time, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have been helped in job creation, agriculture and food security, health services, income-generating projects for poor women, and more.
Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA Vietnam worked with Hai Duong Women's Union to organise a launch for the project to promoting gender equality in the fields of politics.
MAP Radio is a unique and reliable media outlet dedicated to promoting and protecting the rights of migrants living along the Thai-Myanmar border.
Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA ran a successful fundraising appeal over December and January to raise money for our climate justice projects in Nepal, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam and India.
We send solidarity greetings to Filipino workers and trade unions on the occasion of the International Labour Organization High Level Tripartite Mission to the Philippines, happening from January 23-27.
Read an update from APHEDA country manager for Timor Leste Elisabeth Lino de Araujo about how farmers are using donations to establish food cooperatives and provide for their families.
Trust for Community Outreach and Education in South Africa is a southern African hub for the food sovereignty movement and for the global small farmers’ and peasants’ movement.
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