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Joint statement of Southeast Asian Left parties on the US-led ‘Triad of Aggression’ — AUKUS-IPEF-QUAD.
President Joe Biden has just concluded his first official visit to Asia seeking to secure and advance the United States’ core strategic interests in this vital area of the world. The (...)
As the world plunged into the COVID-19 pandemic for more than two years, the climate crisis continues to worsen, threatening humanity’s survival on the planet, with workers worldwide, including workers in Southeast Asia, being the primary victims of the global capitalist system’s failure to (...)
Today, August 8, 2021, is Asian Women’s Day.
On this day we celebrate the strength, power, endurance and perseverance of the women of Asia who are fighting for survival, for justice, for rights, and a better future and safer planet for their families, communities, and peoples.
On this (...)
Statement of the Southeast Asian Left for May Day 2021.
This joint statement is initiated by the Southeast Asian Left, and endorsed by organisations from within and outside Southeast Asia region.
After more than a year of the COVID-19 pandemic, working people around the world have been (...)
An online solidarity movement is bringing together democracy activists throughout Asia for a fight against authoritarianism. But how much difference can a popular hashtag actually make?
The Milk Tea Alliance is nurturing transnational solidarity with protests such as this one in Yangon, (...)
More than a month ago the military junta seized power in Myanmar and now blood is flowing in the streets. However, it is inspiring to see the youth and Generation Z out on the streets opposing the coup. The sudden but robust nationwide uprising is gaining momentum in spite of the crackdown (...)
The Milk Tea Alliance has made waves, even in the physical world. But its impact will be capped by authoritarian governments across the region.
When Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong pled guilty to his charges on 23 November, there was an outburst of support among Thai netizens. (...)
SAAPE is concerned about the great danger thatCOVID-19 pandemic poses in South Asia. The pandemic has already made the lives of the people miserable and woeful. The world is entering in a new phase of history. The pandemic has exposed the ugly face of the neoliberalism which has miserably (...)
Globalization Monitor is celebrating its 20th anniversary!
Founded in 1999, shortly before the big protest in Seattle. Globalization Monitor is a non-profit organization based in Hong Kong that opposes “free trade”, deregulation, privatization, flexibilization and subcontracting. It was the (...)
These movements merit our thanks and our support. However, the state has brutally repressed many of them – in Niyamgiri, Thoothukudi, Vypeen, Kashipur, Sompeta and many other places.
The climate justice movement in South Asia, and India in particular, took a significant step forward last (...)
This statement was an output of the Regional CSO Consultation-Workshop on Social Protection held in Manila, Philippines on 14-15 August 2017, submitted to the ASEAN High Level Conference on Social Protection on 16 August 2017. Representatives of national and regional people’s organizations in (...)
MANILA – While officials of ASEAN governments and their dialogue partners met behind closed doors for the ASEAN and East Asia meetings, over 1,000 members of civil society marched Monday to call for an end to what they said had been 50 years of exclusionary, elitist growth.
The fishers, (...)
Asean is now the fastest growing region in the world in terms of creating economic wealth. But the real creators of this wealth, the working class, do not reap the benefit of this growth. During the past 50 years, serious inequality and democracy problems hound the region with its people (...)
Save the Mekong Coalition Our River Feeds Millions
Chiang Khong Declaration, March 14, 2017
On 14 March 2017, the International Day of Action for Rivers, we, the Save the Mekong Coalition along with civil society and community partners from Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam, make this (...)
Statement of Civil Society, Trade Unions, Migrants, and Parliamentarians in Southeast Asia
To the 22nd Senior Officials Meeting of the ASCC and the 17th ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (ASCC) Council Meeting
6 March 2017
Address the missing link in ASEAN integration. Realize people’s (...)
One day after the launching of the government’s chairmanship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Davao City, more than 100 members of the newly-formed national organizing committee of the 2017 Asean Civil Society Conference/Asean People’s Forum (ACSC/APF 2017) trooped to the (...)
The Fifth General Assembly of SAAPE was held at Kathmandu, Nepal from 02 to 03 September 2016. The main theme of the Assembly was “Gender, Poverty and Constitutional Rights: South Asian People’s Struggle”. The participants from across 8 South Asian countries reflected and deliberated on the (...)
ASIA-PACIFIC PEOPLES MOVEMENTS COME TOGETHER TO CHALLENGE RCEP
More than 80 participants representing trade unions, farming communities, indigenous peoples, health networks, women’s organisations, academia and civil society organizations met on 27-28 July in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to take (...)
Press release issued by the Network for Transformative Social Protection (NTSP) during the press conference on 15 April 2016 at Quezon City, Philippines. The media event was co-organized by Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development, Freedom from Debt Coalition, and NTSP.
The press (...)
Paper for an International Partner Conference, “Socio-Ecological Transformation: Perspectives from Latin America, Europe and Southeast Asia”, organized by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung -Southeast Asia last April 4 and 5 in Hanoi.
Introduction: Findings of a New United Nations Study
The best (...)
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