Highlights
On 18 August 2019, about 1.7 million Hong Kong citizens gathered in parks and street to protest against police brutality and to demand for democratic reforms. The protestors were not deterred by the rains on that fateful day; rather, the Hong Kong st...
*Presented by Shoya Yoshida, General Secretary, ITUC-Asia Pacific, during the ITUC Webinar on COVID 19: Vaccines, Testing, and Treatment - Access for All, 7 April 2021, VirtualA true test for the global communityCOVID-19 is a true test for the global...
Lee Cheuk Yan, General Secretary of Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions (HKCTU), was found guilty for participating in unauthorised assembly against the abuses of police power in August 2019. The conviction of Lee Cheuk Yan and six other prominen...
The violent and brutal attacks against anti-coup protesters in Myanmar continue to escalate. At least 510 people have been killed and more than 2,574, including trade unionists, have been detained since the military seized power in a coup d’état o...
The ITUC-Asia Pacific strongly condemns the brutal killing of Dandy Miguel, chairpreson of PAMANTIK-Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) last night, 28 March 2021, while on his way home on board his motorcycle. Dandy Miguel is the president of Lakas ng Nagkaka...
Statement to the 8th Asia Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development24 March 2021 Download the PDF version of the statement here.One year since the pandemic triggered an unprecedented and multidimensional crisis, many countries in Asia and t...
Responding to the urgent need to promote and uphold peace, democracy, and human rights in the region, the ITUC-AP Regional General Council Meeting adopted five resolutions during its meeting on 10-11 March 2021. In particular, the Resolutions outl...
“We campaign, we win. We lose, we fight back.” This encapsulates the struggles of union women in Asia Pacific in a world with COVID-19 shared by the members of the ITUC-AP Women’s Committee during their virtual meeting on 2-3 March 2021.&nbs...
A message of solidarity on International Women's DayI join women and unions around the region and elsewhere in solidarity to honour those who came before us and other women in our lives who inspired us and persevered to secure the rights and freedo...
Countering the mounting outrage of the people of Myanmar over the military coup, Myanmar’s military declared martial law in major parts of the country in an attempt to further tighten its grip on the power and control that it seized after the ge...
