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Latest news from APHEDA’s overseas projects, campaigns and events
![Celebrating International Domestic Worker’s Day 2021 – Timor Leste](https://www.apheda.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/400-x-250-IDWD.png)
Celebrating International Domestic Worker’s Day 2021 – Timor Leste
Despite serious setbacks in 2021, the Working Women’s Centre of Timor Leste continue to campaign for and win rights for Domestic Workers.
![WTO Vaccine Waiver Update – June 2021](https://www.apheda.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/400-x-250-TRIPS-Waiver.png)
WTO Vaccine Waiver Update – June 2021
In June 2021, a petition supporting a WTO Vaccine Waiver was handed over outside the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Sydney.
![DONATE: Rebuilding Livelihoods in Timor Leste](https://www.apheda.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/400-250-Timor-Appeal-.png)
DONATE: Rebuilding Livelihoods in Timor Leste
Building the capacities of farmer and worker organisations to respond to the pandemic and floods.
![DONATE: Stand with Myanmar](https://www.apheda.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/400-250-Myanmar-Appeal-1.png)
DONATE: Stand with Myanmar
Donate today to help APHEDA’s partner organisations in Myanmar and on the Thai-Myanmar border stay strong as they resist military oppression and build political power during the crisis.
![APHEDA joins the School Strike for Climate – May 2021](https://www.apheda.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/400-x-250-apheda-climate-strike-melbourne.png)
APHEDA joins the School Strike for Climate – May 2021
On 21 May 2021, APHEDA joined young people across Australia to demand real and immediate action to avoid catastrophic global heating.
![Conflict, COVID-19 and mass displacement on the Thai-Myanmar Border](https://www.apheda.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/400-x-250-KWO.png)
Conflict, COVID-19 and mass displacement on the Thai-Myanmar Border
As people in Myanmar continue to deal with the fallout of the military coup, the situation on the Thai-Myanmar border continues to deteriorate.
![APHEDA People: Meet Alisha Bull (MUA Tasmania)](https://www.apheda.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/400250-Alisha-Bull-APHEDA-People.png)
APHEDA People: Meet Alisha Bull (MUA Tasmania)
Meet Alisha Bull! This month Alisha talks to us about internationalism and helping others, no matter where they come from!
![Samoa First Union gives hope to workers hit hard by the Pandemic](https://www.apheda.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/400-x-250-Samoa-First-Union-SFU.png)
Samoa First Union gives hope to workers hit hard by the Pandemic
Samoa has been greatly impacted by the global pandemic. Many workers have been laid off and financial distress is growing. However, Samoa First Union is there to give them hope.
![Statement on Palestine, 19 May 2021](https://www.apheda.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/400-x-250-Statement-on-Palestine.png)
Statement on Palestine, 19 May 2021
The Australian government must call on the Israeli Netanyahu government to immediately cease the bombing of Gaza, and restrain the attacks on Palestinian communities in cities in Israel, and settler attacks on Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territories.