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UNI Asia & Pacific organized a two-day workshop in Nepal on ‘Effectively Organizing Workers in a Nepalese Context’ [UNI] 2023-02-02

The John Thompson Fellowship Programme, from Asia to Africa [EI] 2023-01-29

Education unionists take stock of development cooperation in Asia-Pacific [Education International] 2023-01-24

Crisis of low wages impoverishes Asian and African textile and garment workers [IndustriALL] 2023-01-18

Region second deadliest globally on IFJ Killed List [IFJ] 2022-12-13

Women call for more diversity and inclusion in broadcasting [UNI] 2022-12-03

Platform Workers on Strike in South Korea, Hong Kong and Thailand: a moment for building transnational labour solidarity [Asian Labour Review] 2022-11-26

Unions share innovative trade union approaches, release report [BWI] 2022-11-16

Rising Together for Justice: Essential Rights for Essential Workers [UNI] 2022-11-09

IndustriALL Asia Pacific committee stands firmly with struggling workers [IndustriALL] 2022-11-05

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Pacific UNI Asia & Pacific organized a two-day workshop in Nepal on ‘Effectively Organizing Workers in a Nepalese Context’ 2023-02-02 [UNI]

Asia The John Thompson Fellowship Programme, from Asia to Africa 2023-01-29 [EI]

Trade and Gender in South Asia 2023-01-25 [moderndiplomacy]

Pacific Education unionists take stock of development cooperation in Asia-Pacific 2023-01-24 [Education International]

Asia Crisis of low wages impoverishes Asian and African textile and garment workers 2023-01-18 [IndustriALL]

The John Thompson programme, a tool for union development and renewal 2022-12-22 [Education International]

Pacific Region second deadliest globally on IFJ Killed List 2022-12-13 [IFJ]

Pacific Women call for more diversity and inclusion in broadcasting 2022-12-03 [UNI]

Platform Workers on Strike in South Korea, Hong Kong and Thailand: a moment for building transnational labour solidarity 2022-11-26 [Asian Labour Review]

Pacific Unions share innovative trade union approaches, release report 2022-11-16 [BWI]

Workers are heading back overseas: here’s how govts should respond 2022-11-16 [The Daily Star]

Pacific Rising Together for Justice: Essential Rights for Essential Workers 2022-11-09 [UNI]

Pacific IndustriALL Asia Pacific committee stands firmly with struggling workers 2022-11-05 [IndustriALL]

Young unionists from Central Asia demand attention to youth policy 2022-11-05 [IndustriALL]

Pacific Education unions on the move to rebuild in Asia-Pacific 2022-10-29 [EI]

Trade unions adopt conclusion for just economy, decent work in South-East Asia 2022-10-13 [ILO]

Pacific Unions in Asia Pacific intensify efforts to organize white collar workers 2022-10-05 [IndustriALL]

Unions from Central Asia prepare for Congress and discuss cost of living 2022-10-05 [EPSU]

Pacific The 6th UNI APRO youth conference: #makingyouthmatter! 2022-09-24 [UNI]

Asia South Asian States Should Back Remedy for Qatar’s Migrant Workers 2022-09-21 [Human Rights Watch]

South Asia’s wage crisis 2022-09-14 [IndustriALL]

Pacific Cement unions focus on organizing and gender equality 2022-09-04 [IndustriALL]

Pacific It is the absence of social justice that turns the climate crisis into a climate catastrophe 2022-09-02 [IUF Asia/Pacific]

BWI GOA gains momentum, trains organisers 2022-08-31 [BWI]

South Asian shipbreaking workers prepare for recycling boom 2022-08-27 [IndustriALL]

BWI GOA gains momentum, trains organiser 2022-08-18 [BWI]

BWI GOA gains momentum, trains organiser 2022-08-16 [BWI]

UNI Equal Opportunities launches new programme to train women leaders in South and Southeast Asia 2022-08-12 [UNI Global Union]

Global brands purchasing practices linked to abuse of garment workers in South Asia 2022-08-10 [IndustriALL]

Pacific BWI affiliates hold congress delegates’ assembly, elect Noonan as regional VP 2022-08-04 [BWI]

Pacific BWI affiliates hold congress delegates’ assembly, elect Noonan as regional VP 2022-08-03 [BWI]

Pacific Global education union movement mourns Aloysius Matthews and celebrates his legacy 2022-07-21 [EI]

Pacific It's time to give domestic workers across Asia and the Pacific the rights they deserve 2022-06-16 [Journal Online]

Pacific Federation of Asia Pacific journalists formed at IFJ Congress 2022-06-04 [IFJ]

Pacific Unions and Civil Society React to Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) Member Countries Announcement 2022-06-01 [PSI]

Pacific Strategies to address child labour in artisanal fisheries and aquaculture 2022-05-20 [IUF Asia/Pacific]

Asia An urgent need to reassess climate change and child labour in agriculture 2022-05-20 [The Lancet Planetary Health]

IFJ launches 20th South Asia Press Freedom Report 2022-05-05 [IFJ]

Pacific UNI APRO May Day 2022 Message 2022-05-02 [UNI]

For May Day, a Call to Defeat Gender, Class and Caste Divisions Among Workers of Southasia 2022-05-01 [The Wire]

Asia Exploited Asian fruit pickers 2022-04-27 [Deutsche Welle]

Pacific 30th UNI Asia and Pacific Executive Committee Meeting strengthens strategic goals, policy work and advocacy efforts 2022-04-27 [UNI Global Union]

‘Out of sight, out of mind' attitude hampering COVID recovery for fishers and seafood processors in South-East Asia 2022-04-20 [ILO]

1M signatures for a robust, rights-based and just ADB safeguards policy! 2022-04-08 [BWI]

Pacific Asia Pacific tops IFJ's Killed List as deadliest region for journalists 2022-02-10 [IFJ]

Asia Kazakhstan: a breach of the social contract and the end of a political cycle 2022-02-10 [Equal Times]

Asia Between military violence, union busting and deteriorating working conditions, Myanmar's factory workers are being squeezed from all sides 2022-01-24 [Equal Times]

Asia California Garment Workers Organize to End Wage Theft 2021-12-29 [Yes!]

Pacific Living and working conditions of educators severely impacted by the pandemic 2021-12-04 [EI]

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