News and Updates

We, the representatives of ITUC-Asia Pacific, Global Union Federations (GUFs), and Trade Union Solidarity Support Organisations (TUSSOs) who gathered in Kathmandu for our Annual Coordination Meeting, express our strong solidarity with Nepal’s trade union movement at this critical moment.

ITUC-Asia Pacific welcomes the decision of the South East Asia National Human Rights Institutions Forum (SEANF) to disqualify the Myanmar National Human Rights Commission (MNHRC) from membership, describing it as an important step towards denying the military junta legitimacy and strengthening accountability for human rights violations in Myanmar.

ITUC-Asia Pacific facilitated a series of engagements between British and Indian trade unions in New Delhi and Mumbai, India from 11–15 October 2026, strengthening cooperation to advance workers’ rights and ensure that labour commitments under the India–United Kingdom (UK) Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) translate into concrete improvements for workers.

Pacific trade unions stepped up their collective efforts to advance a worker-centred Just Transition and equitable climate finance at Pacific Pre-COP31 Meeting, held in Fiji and Tuvalu from 5 to 8 October 2026.

Young trade unionists from across Asia and the Pacific strengthened their organising strategies, leadership skills, and regional solidarity at the 19th ITUC-Asia Pacific Youth Leadership Course, held in Singapore from 28 September to 2 October 2026, with a focus on transforming youth activism into sustained collective power and greater influence within trade unions.

Trade unions across Asia and the Pacific are stepping up efforts to secure the ratification of the recently adopted ILO Convention No. 193 (C193), while already using the new international labour standard to push for stronger national laws and policies, advance collective bargaining, and develop organising strategies that deliver concrete protections for platform workers.

On this International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, the ITUC-Asia Pacific renews its unequivocal call for the complete abolition of nuclear weapons and for a global security system founded on human dignity, justice, dialogue, and international cooperation.

On the International Day of Democracy, the ITUC-Asia Pacific strongly condemns the seven-year prison sentence handed down to veteran trade union leader and democracy advocate Lee Cheuk-yan and calls for his immediate and unconditional release.