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Cambodia has one of the highest rates of female workforce participation in Southeast Asia, with women making up 90% of garment workers and nearly 40% of the construction industry. Yet, despite the fact that these industries would grind to a halt without them, women remain underrepresented in all leadership positions, including union leadership, and are often excluded from major decisions that affect their livelihoods.

At the upcoming International Labour Conference (ILC) in June 2025, the world has a chance to act through ILO Article 33, a powerful measure to hold the junta accountable for forced labour and trade union repression.

Unionists in Melbourne and Adelaide welcomed two leading Timorese women unionists who travelled to Australia to participate in the training programs and solidarity events.

The Myanmar military junta has exacerbated the catastrophe after the earthquake. Despite declaring a ceasefire, the military conducted 211 airstrikes across 157 locations and engaged in clashes in at least 86 areas, including against resistance groups claiming ceasefires.

Asbestos awareness training was held in communities near a roof sheet factory that still uses asbestos as a core material. Workers handle asbestos without proper protective gear, and asbestos waste is discarded along nearby roads.

Union Aid Abroad – APHEDA, in partnership with the MA’AN Development Center, is supporting three inspiring cooperatives in the West Bank that are working to build economic independence and social inclusion from the ground up.

Across the factory floors and railway corridors of Vientiane, the Lao Federation of Trade Unions (LFTU) is laying new foundations to better protect workers in the private sector.

Australians overwhelmingly (82%) think that Israel’s deliberate blocking of aid into Gaza cannot be justified, according to fresh polling figures, with more than two in three Australians believing the Australian Government should do more to ensure civilians have access to food, water and medicine - including the vast majority of Labor voters.

To all people of conscience, to trade unions, civil society movements, faith-based groups, elected representatives, humanitarian actors, and every individual, collective, and institution that upholds human rights, dignity, and the sanctity of life. We reach out to you with hearts shattered by grief, suffocated by injustice, and inflamed by the unbearable silence of the world. A genocide is unfolding, relentless, systematic, and deliberate, before our very eyes in Gaza.