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Maung Maung is the President of the Confederation of Trade Unions of Myanmar (CTUM). Since the military coup, trade unionists have been persecuted, jailed, forced into hiding or exile, and stripped of their citizenship.

MA’AN Development Centre is working with Universities to rehabilitate educational infrastructure, as the destruction of educational facilities now threatens the future of an entire generation of students.

Garment workers in Cambodia are getting results. Nine factories have already signed collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) covering more than 12,000 workers.

Across Asia and the Pacific, where asbestos-containing materials are still manufactured and used, many types of workers are at risk. Women, migrant workers, informal workers, children, older people, and persons with disabilities are affected by asbestos exposure, often outside formal employment settings, including domestic and care environments, community infrastructure, and disaster response and recovery. 

Join us in Sydney for internationalism’s night of nights at our annual Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA Global Solidarity Dinner. This year has taken us to unsettling new places and now, more than ever, it’s important to come together as a community to celebrate the hard-fought wins through the power of worker-to-worker solidarity! The powerful few who continue […]

Join us in Melbourne for internationalism’s night of nights at our annual Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA Global Solidarity Dinner. This year has taken us to unsettling new places and now, more than ever, it’s important to come together as a community to celebrate the hard-fought wins through the power of worker-to-worker solidarity! The powerful few who continue […]

APHEDA Action Network Meanjin Brisbane is hosting its annual Quiz Night Dinner to raise funds to support the work of Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA, the global justice organisation of the Australian union movement. It will be a quiz of skill and chance, with only one team walking away with bragging rights and the coveted Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA […]

The Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee has delivered one of Australia’s most definitive assessments of the situation in Myanmar. Its findings are clear: the junta’s 2025–26 election was neither free, fair, nor inclusive.

Unions and activists alike took up the call around the country to organise Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA activities to foster solidarity between working people in Australia and around the world.

When governments attack aid and development, it’s often been union movement solidarity organisations like us that are hit first and hardest. This has certainly been the case for our sister organisations in Europe and the US, who have faced devastating cuts. At Union Aid Abroad–APHEDA, we have always understood this risk, but also know that worker-to-worker solidarity cannot be cut, regardless of who is in power.