Media & Public Statements

On 30 December 2025, 37 NGOs were formally notified that their registrations would expire on 31 December 2025, despite an ongoing ceasefire in Gaza and the scale of humanitarian need. The decision triggered a 60-day period after which international NGOs would be forced to cease operations in Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.

We stand with trade unions, civil society, faith groups, international development organisations, and the Myanmar diaspora in Australia in an open letter to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Penny Wong.

The Board of Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA is announcing that Kate Lee is stepping down as Executive Officer after 12 years of outstanding service and will finish in the role on February 28, 2026.

While we welcome Australia’s recognition of Palestine, it is no substitute for the urgent and meaningful action that Australia must take to uphold its moral and legal obligations to prevent further atrocities against the Palestinian people, and to avoid complicity in the war crimes Israel is committing.

The undersigned international trade union solidarity support organisations — Australian People for Health, Education and Development Abroad (APHEDA), Confederation of Christian Trade Unions (ACV-CSC), French Democratic Confederation of Labour (CFDT), General Labour Federation of Belgium (ABVV-FGTB), Italia-Birmania.Insieme, and Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO Norway) — issue this joint statement to unequivocally condemn the Myanmar military junta’s dangerous manoeuvring to legitimise its dictatorship through sham elections scheduled on 28th December.

Australians overwhelmingly (82%) think that Israel’s deliberate blocking of aid into Gaza cannot be justified, according to fresh polling figures, with more than two in three Australians believing the Australian Government should do more to ensure civilians have access to food, water and medicine - including the vast majority of Labor voters.

To all people of conscience, to trade unions, civil society movements, faith-based groups, elected representatives, humanitarian actors, and every individual, collective, and institution that upholds human rights, dignity, and the sanctity of life. We reach out to you with hearts shattered by grief, suffocated by injustice, and inflamed by the unbearable silence of the world. A genocide is unfolding, relentless, systematic, and deliberate, before our very eyes in Gaza.

Palestinian civil society, joined by humanitarian and human rights organisations worldwide, issues this urgent and unified call: The manufactured famine in Gaza must be halted. The international community must act decisively, immediately, and with full moral and legal responsibility.

We—the undersigned 265 Myanmar, regional, and international civil society organizations—express our deepest sorrow for communities across Myanmar and Thailand devastated by the earthquake on 28 March 2025. As Myanmar faces yet another humanitarian crisis amidst the military junta’s intensifying campaign of terror against the Myanmar people, it is imperative that the international community immediately mobilize resources and direct disaster emergency relief to survivors and affected communities of the earthquake. This must be channeled through local community groups and frontline responders in collaboration with the National Unity Government (NUG), Ethnic Resistance Organizations (EROs), and civil society. We emphasize that these disaster relief efforts, through any implementing partners, must not be exploited, manipulated, or weaponized by the military junta for its political and military gain.

The Australian Council for International Development (ACFID) encourages the Australian Government to vote in support of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) resolution to give Palestine de-facto UN member status.