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.

MAP Radio continues to provide essential news, information and resources to vulnerable migrant communities through COVID-19 and a military coup.
Disability Rights activists in Timor Leste collaborated to hold the country’s first public rally seeking greater awareness of people living with disability in the community.
Through the Ghalleh Project, Mozna was supported to invest in equipment and now her date business has become a success story.
The March 2021 overview of solidarity actions, campaigns and petitions highlighting the deteriorating situation in Myanmar.
APHEDA's partner organisations in Timor Leste are using water conservation and agro-ecology to combat the impacts of climate change.
27 FEB 2021: Australian energy giant, Woodside, has bowed to pressure and shown leadership when it announced it was withdrawing from its presence in Myanmar.
The situation facing refugees living in camps in Lebanon has always been a challenge. However, in the past 12 months PWHO has had to contend with COVID-19, the impact of the Beirut blast, and the deep Lebanese financial and political
WWCTL is getting well-deserved recognition by international bodies such as UN Women and the ILO for their lobbying of government and community to improve conditions, rights and social protections for working women in Timor Leste.
In January 2021, APHEDA’s Gaza Coordinator Hana Abu Nahla was interviewed on radio about women’s contribution to the agricultural sector in Gaza.

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