Campaign Updates
Women against the Transpacific Partnership
At a time when governments, civil society organisations and the larger international community are negotiating a new sustainable development agenda, another binding, global, agreement is being negotiated behind closed doors.
Global Week of Action against Gov’t Crackdown on Cambodian Protesters
While the New Year’s firecrackers signaled hope for people around the world, Cambodian garment workers protesting for a rise in wages faced a violent police crackdown on January 2, 2014.
Rio+20 Campaign: Assert women’s rights to resources and development
WOMEN’S MAJOR GROUP APWLD is helping lead the way as part of the WMG, a network of over 50 women’s organisations worldwide, and is adding the voices of Asia Pacific
Regional Implementation Meeting on the Follow Up of Rio+20: WMG Statement on 4 Key Priorities in SDGs and Post 2015 Development Agenda
In 22-24 April 2013, APWLD attended the Regional Implementation Meeting on theFollow Up of Rio+20, held in Bangkok and organised by UN-ESCAP and UNEP. The RIM was focus on
Rio plus 20: Assert Women’s Right to Resources & Development
Today’s dominant development model and global economic system overemphasise “economic growth”, prioritising the profits of governments and corporations in the North over social justice and integrity of environmental systems around