The recent extra-judicial executions of four human rights defenders by the Myanmar miliary have shocked the world. Although not unexpected, these show the lengths to which the brutal junta will go to inspire terror. After the killings, one of the young leaders who studied in Wellington in 2017 – and returned with high hopes for …
A new UnionAID project will focus on preventing exploitation of migrant workers in Thailand who produce plasterboard now being sold very cheaply in Aotearoa-New Zealand. While Thai plasterboard will be up to 40% cheaper than locally produced plasterboard, analysis shows this benefit is gained from exploiting migrant workers in Thailand whose wages are up to …
New Project to Raise Wages for Thai Plasterboard Workers Read More »
Every Sunday garment workers in Sri Lanka who have lost jobs because of the political and economic crisis come together to cook, talk, share experiences, and engage in morale boosting activities such as games, singing, and dancing. This is the initiative of our project partner, the Free Trade Zones & General Services Employees Union (FTZ&GSEU) …
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If you have heard a clanging of pots in the distance over the past few days it was probably the Myanmar people protesting against the military junta. One year on from the disastrous coup in Myanmar, the military has succeeded in uniting the country, against the junta! This has been achieved by a combination of brutality …
One year after the coup Myanmar’s military has united the country in opposition Read More »
This award winning feel-good documentary takes an inside look at the all-female team of mainly Dalit journalists at Khabar Lahariya, India’s only all-female news organisation. It began as a temporary project funded by an NGO to train women in a village to write a newsletter. When funding ended, the organisation lived on. The film is …
Did you know you can leave a bequest to UnionAID in your will? A bequest left to UnionAID will help our partners in Asia and the Pacific continue their important work building unions and taking collective action to lift working people and communities out of poverty for years to come. For more information click here.
Victimisation of refugees has serious consequences for society and democracy, Kurdish journalist and human rights campaigner Behrouz Boochani warned in the Peter Conway Memorial Lecture on the 4th July. More than 150 people attended in person at Victoria University and via livestream. Drawing from his own experience in detention for more than five years on …
Ten young leaders from Mindanao and Indonesia respectively have started their sustainable development course and met one another online for the first time. As with other years, participants are from different places, ethnicities, and civil society work, including a labour rights activist from Mindanao and an educator supporting migrant workers and refugees in Indonesia. Thanks …
Issues of land rights pose ongoing problems for many of the minority ethnic groups in Myanmar. So it was not surprising that a discussion on te Tiriti o Waitangi in a land management and governance workshop run by Paul (MYLP 2020) resonated with the Kachin people from the remote Hukawng Valley in the very north …
Two years on from the military coup, the people of Myanmar are still fighting for their democracy and their future against the military coup.
They are calling for our support.
We are liaising constantly with our partners on how we can help. They have asked for funding to support the campaign for democracy and to uphold human rights.
