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Thai-Burma Border
Overview
Few governments around the world match the Burmese military regime for repression. Opposition and dissent is brutally crushed, civil organisations such as trade unions suppressed, forced labour, slave labour and child labour is common, and the ruling military elite is noted for its corruption and involvement in the illicit drugs trade.
Refugees from Burma
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Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA is assisting six projects for Burmese refugees on the Thai-Burma border. These support medic training and mobile medical clinics, vocational training for refugee and displaced communities, schools for refugees as well as support to information and labour rights education and support for workers in Thailand.
Strategy
Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA has been directly assisting refugees and migrant workers on the Thai-Burma border since 1995. Projects supported include direct health services, technical and vocational training, and labour rights education and support for migrant workers and refugees.
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History
APHEDA's history on the Thai Burma Border
APHEDA began funding projects along the Thai Burma border in 1996. Our first project partners were Migrant Assistance Program (MAP), a labour rights organisation helping Burmese migrant workers and the Karen Womens Organisation supporting women's vocational training programs and women's empowerment programs....
Projects
Thai-Burma border Donor Report 2007-08 - Shan Health Clinic
Read Union Aid Abroad's full report to donors and updates on this project. ...
Karen Women’s Organisation (KWO)
Union Aid Abroad APHEDA has been in partnership with KWO for many years. Together we have trained hundreds of women in vocational education skills, women's rights and human rights providing them with knowledge and opportunities for the future....
Thai-Burma border Donor Report 2007-08 - Burma Labour Solidarity Organisation
Read Union Aid Abroad's full report to donors and updates on this project. ...
Mae Tao Clinic - Health Care Project
Union Aid Abroad - APHEDA is proud to work with the Mae Tao Clinic in their Health Care Project....
Shan Health Clinic
The Shan Health Clinic provides free medical assistance to Shan refugees who have fled Burma due to ongoing conflict and repression. All 5,000 people living in the camp have access to health care at no cost provided by Union Aid Abroad APHEDA and our partner, the Shan Health Committee....
MAP Foundation
MAP works with Union Aid Abroad - APHEDA to support Burmese refugees working in Thailand. Because they are not able to register (as Thailand does not acknowledge their refugee status) these working refugees have little protection. MAP and Union Aid Abroad APHEDA assist Burmese refugees in areas of health and safety....
Social Action for Women (SAW)
Social Action for Women (SAW) was established in 2000 with the aim to aid vulnerable Burmese women and children in crisis along the Thai-Burma border. Many Burmese flee to Mae Sot to escape the systematic human rights abuses that happen on a day-to-day basis in Burma. Many female migrant workers have no place to go when they are suddenly dismissed from their employment, or suffer a complete lack of support when enduring economic, medical or emotional hardship. SAW provides services like counselling, health care, education, rights awareness and vocational training to these vulnerable women to help empower them and aid them to make informed decisions about their future....
DARE Network
The Drug and Alcohol Recovery Education (DARE) Network is a grassroots NGO that provides traditional non-medical treatment and prevention education to reduce substance abuse and associated social problems within the communities of the displaced ethnic people from Burma, along the Thai/Burma border. DARE Network is the first, and remains the only, organization that comprehensively addresses substance abuse within the refugee and migrant populations along the Thai/Burmese border....
Burma Labour Solidarity Organization (BLSO)
Union Aid Abroad APHEDA and the Burma Labour Solidarity Organisation have work together to educate Burmese Refugee workers and their children. Burmese refugees working as migrant labourers have little access to services for their children. These children often have special needs because their parents transient lifestyle has ment they have missed several years of school. BLSO aims to create a school environment that caters to their needs....
Latest Thai-Burma Border News
VOICES FROM THE BORDER: Forums with Thai-Burma border community workers - 10 May 2012
FORUMS ON 16 & 17 MAY, SYDNEY --- Aung San Suu Kyi's victory in the recent by-elections has prompted predictions of a transition to democracy in Burma. But what do the elections mean for refugees and displaced persons living on the border between Burma and Thailand? How do forced labour, violence against women, and mining projects affect the communities on the border? And what are local organisations doing to support these communities? ...
Umpiem Mai Refugee Camp Fire Recovery Update - 17 April 2012
Thanks to the generosity of our supporters and the Australian trade union movement, we pleased to report that we have been able to contribute over $16,000 to assist with the Umpiem fire recovery effort....
Umpiem Fire Recovery Appeal - Please give generously - 28 February 2012
Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA is appealing for donations to assist the Burmese refugees affected by a fire that has torn through the Umpiem Mai Refugee Camp on the Thai Burma Border. Over 1,000 houses have been destroyed - meaning around 4,000 refugees are now homeless, with many having lost all of their belongings....
Emergency Appeal for Burma - 12 November 2010
Union Aid Abroad - APHEDA's long term partner, Mae Tao Clinic, is in urgent need of financial assistance so that it can provide emergency health services to the large influx of refugees from Burma following last weeks elections. See below for more info....
Cross border aid campaign for Burma's eastern border states - 14 September 2009
Union Aid Abroad APHEDA recently supported our partners from medical and womens organisations based on the Thai Burma Border to come to Australia and lobby for cross border aid....
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