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Latest news from APHEDA’s overseas projects, campaigns and events
Australian Activists Meet with Naw K’nyaw Paw
On her Australian advocacy tour, Naw K’nyaw Paw called on her audiences to stand with those refugee women in their fight for a dignified life, a just community, and a peaceful future.
Unions in Asia Join Global Call for Climate Justice
Around the world, students and workers have united in the largest protest for climate action in history. Our partner unions joined them to demand a just transition into a sustainable future.
Switch to Cooperative Power for Fair, Clean and Sustainable Energy!
Cooperative Power aims to provide not-for-profit electricity to working Australians. By investing the benefits into worker and community ownership of renewable energy, we can achieve a safe climate for all.
On the Thai-Myanmar border, women are training to become leaders to end oppression
On the Thai-Myanmar border, women are building their collective power to build peace in their country and well-being in their communities in the face of growing militarisation and a precarious peace.
Laos Parliament Meets with World’s Leading Asbestos Experts
Addressing the dangerous levels of asbestos consumption in Laos, Laotian parliamentarians met last week with scientists and experts to discuss the urgent need to ensure safe workplaces and communities that are free from asbestos.
“The importance of solidarity”: Naw K’nyaw Paw speaks to Union Aid Abroad
“By standing together across borders, we can make a better world” – that was the message that celebrated human rights activist Naw K’nyaw Paw delivered to Union Aid Abroad – APHEDA members and supporters in the 2019 Annual Dinner. Here, we present an excerpt from her keynote speech, in which she calls us to “work together to make a difference.”
“Workers not slaves!” – Domestic Workers of Timor Take Demands to Streets
This year the Working Women’s Centre took to the streets with hundreds of Timorese Domestic Workers to celebrate International Domestic Workers Day and restate their demands to the Timorese government for dignity and rights at work.
In South Africa, farmers are organising to confront the climate crisis
The response to the climate crisis is not handouts, but campaigns for land rights, food sovereignty, sustainable agriculture, and access to water by defending the rights of rural women, farm workers, and small-scale farmers.
“It’s all the more important now that we maintain our sense of international solidarity” – Mary Waterford AM – APHEDA People
Mary Waterford has spent her whole life fighting for justice and equality. In her social work, unionism, and in her fundraising for international solidarity, Mary has been committed to helping disadvantaged people secure the rights that they others deny them.