Solidarity in Action:
Our Projects

Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA, as the global justice organisation of the Australian union movement, works to support stronger union and social movements in thirteen locations in Southeast Asia, the Pacific, the Middle East, and Southern Africa. We do that by working in partnership with thirty-nine local unions and community organisations through thirty projects and campaigns.

Our approach to development and movement-building work is centred in values of partnership, solidarity, equality, justice, and accountability.

We provide on-the-ground assistance which aims to address the causes of injustice and inequality, not the symptoms.

We support organised movements of people to make their own change possible, by exerting political pressure for just and sustainable solutions.

We recognise our solidarity with the working classes and marginalised people of the Global South and stand with them, as together we struggle for a better world.

We seek to deploy funds in effective and strategic ways, with accountability to partner organisations, funding bodies and our own members.

Here are some of the projects and campaigns we undertake in collaboration with communities in our region and beyond:

By working to support strong movements of people, we can fight inequality and corporate greed. History shows us we can demand a just world.

Kate Lee

Executive Officer, Union Aid Abroad - APHEDA

To learn more about how we put our solidarity into action, take a look at the 2023 Annual Report, where you can read about our partnerships and projects, the activism and advocacy of our members, and the progress of our campaign to ban asbestos across Asia.

Karen News_construction workers in Mae Sot 2013_karennews.org website
Formed in 2011 and based on the Thai-Myanmar border, Karen News is an ethnic Karen news agency, reporting on social justice issues that shape the Karen community through video, radio and web-based articles.
APHEDA partners with Workers’ World Media Productions on a Labour-Community Media Project which aims to provide “quality, relevant and informative media productions for the labour movement and working class people.”
PAFPI
The Philippines has the fastest growing HIV epidemic in the Asia-Pacific region. PAFPI are working hard to support those living with HIV and preventing new transmissions.
Action Labor Rights (ALR) organises workers in garment and textile industries. In 2018, ALR helped establish workplace unions at 29 factories with 11000 workers joining.
400 x 250 KWO_Image by Saw Mort Photography
On International Women's Day 2019, APHEDA’s partner organisations participated in marches, produced statements and even won international human rights awards.
From humble beginnings in 2006, BCMF has since grown to play a major healthcare role in a region afflicted by conflict, poverty and a severe lack of funding for local healthcare systems.
On 15 March 2019, over 1.6 million students across the globe went on strike to demand climate justice, including APHEDA’s partner organisations in Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia.
Phnom Penh Post_8 March 2019_featuring CSFWF_image by Hong Menea
The Cambodian Food and Service Workers’ Federation (CFSWF) organises workers to unionise and empowers them to improve working conditions, wages and OHS.
400 x 250 Vietnam political leadership
Women's Unions in Vietnam are gearing up for the 2021 election, aiming for stronger representation while promoting gender equality in political decision making.

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