UnionAID’s annual quiz challenge is back for 2022! Join us on the 28th of October at the NZEI, Level 6, 79 Boulcott Street, Wellington. Get your team of union colleagues, members, or friends together for a fun night of rivalry and raising funds to support our union partners in Asia and the Pacific. Supper will be provided (please email violet@unionaid.co.nz …
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 …
UnionAID is delighted to announce the appointment of Tim Sutton as our Executive Director. Tim has spent the last 25 years in senior UNICEF management roles in several countries in Asia and the Pacific and most recently was the UNICEF Representative in Sri Lanka. He returned to New Zealand last year and he is bringing …
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Good Fortune Coffee has produced a special “Solidarity” roast of Timor Leste organic free trade coffee for the UnionAID May Day appeal with profits going to UnionAID. Good Fortune’s Matt Wilson says as a Living Wage employer he supports the UnionAID mission to build a better world through better work in all countries. The Solidarity …
UnionAID is a development organisation that is committed to empowering working people and young leaders to alleviate poverty and achieve social justice in Asia and the Pacific. We are looking for two Young Leaders Programme Coordinators (one based in Wellington, one in Auckland) to work with our Programme Managers in the delivery of the Indonesia …
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For May Day 2022, UnionAID has joined forces with Good Fortune Coffee Co to bring you the “Solidarity” blend. Solidarity is an organic, fair trade, Living Wage blend from the Cooperativa Café Timor. Profit from every bag supports our work, making your small change bigger.
