Latest News
Latest news from APHEDA’s overseas projects, campaigns and events
![Broadcasting through a pandemic – MAP Radio’s information lifeline for migrant workers](https://www.apheda.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/400-x-250-MAP-Radio.png)
Broadcasting through a pandemic – MAP Radio’s information lifeline for migrant workers
MAP Radio continues to provide essential news, information and resources to vulnerable migrant communities through COVID-19 and a military coup.
![APHEDA People: Meet Hiba Yasin (Social Inclusion Officer, APHEDA Palestine)](https://www.apheda.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/400-x-250-Hiba.png)
APHEDA People: Meet Hiba Yasin (Social Inclusion Officer, APHEDA Palestine)
This month we speak to Hiba Yasin who works to develop women’s capacities in Palestine so they can better assert their rights and improve their roles within their communities.
![Collaborating for Disability Rights in Timor Leste During COVID-19](https://www.apheda.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/400-x-250-timor-leste-disability-rights.png)
Collaborating for Disability Rights in Timor Leste During COVID-19
Disability Rights activists in Timor Leste collaborated to hold the country’s first public rally seeking greater awareness of people living with disability in the community.
![Mozna’s date business in Gaza a successful case study](https://www.apheda.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/400-x-250-Mozna.png)
Mozna’s date business in Gaza a successful case study
Through the Ghalleh Project, Mozna was supported to invest in equipment and now her date business has become a success story.
![Myanmar Solidarity Update – March 2021](https://www.apheda.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/400-x-250-sydney-rally-6-march.png)
Myanmar Solidarity Update – March 2021
The March 2021 overview of solidarity actions, campaigns and petitions highlighting the deteriorating situation in Myanmar.
![World Water Day 2021: water conservation in Timor Leste](https://www.apheda.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/400-x-250-Timor-Leste-water.png)
World Water Day 2021: water conservation in Timor Leste
APHEDA’s partner organisations in Timor Leste are using water conservation and agro-ecology to combat the impacts of climate change.
![USING YOUR WILL POWER](https://www.apheda.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/400-x-250-bequests-1.png)
USING YOUR WILL POWER
By leaving a gift to Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA, you are making a lasting commitment to people whose rights to development are restricted or denied.
![APHEDA joins call to give developing countries access to COVID-19 vaccines](https://www.apheda.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/400-x-250-TRIPS-Waiver.png)
APHEDA joins call to give developing countries access to COVID-19 vaccines
APHEDA joins ACTU and civil society organisations in joint letter calling on the Australian government to give developing countries access to COVID-19 vaccines.
![Woodside backs down after criticism over presence in Myanmar](https://www.apheda.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/400-x-250-Woodside-withdraws.png)
Woodside backs down after criticism over presence in Myanmar
27 FEB 2021: Australian energy giant, Woodside, has bowed to pressure and shown leadership when it announced it was withdrawing from its presence in Myanmar.