Asia Pacific Research Network - APRN

Sa pagdiriwang ng Cordillera Day, ipinapahayag namin mula sa Asia Pacific Research Network (APRN) ang aming matibay na pakikiisa sa mamamayan ng Cordillera sa kanilang patuloy na pakikibaka para sa lupa, buhay, at kabuhayan. Sa gitna ng krisis, mula sa tumitinding kalagayang pang-ekonomiya hanggang sa patuloy na banta ng mapanirang proyekto at militarisasyon sa iba’t ibang bahagi ng kanayunan, lalo nilang pinagtitibay ang paninindigan para sa karapatan sa sariling pagpapasya at makatarungang kapayapaan. 

Kinikilala namin na ang laban ng Cordillera ay nakaugat sa mahabang kasaysayan ng paglaban para sa lupang ninuno at dignidad. Isang laban na patuloy na hinaharap sa kasalukuyan laban sa pang-aagaw ng lupa, pagsasamantala sa likas-yaman, at mga patakarang nagpapalala ng kahirapan at kawalan ng katarungan. 

Ang pakikibakang ito ay hindi hiwalay. Ito ay kaakibat ng mga laban ng mga mamamayan sa buong Asya at Pasipiko na humaharap din sa imperyalistang pandarambong, inhustisya sa klima, at paglabag sa karapatan ng mga katutubo at marhinalisadong komunidad. Mula sa kabundukan hanggang sa mga isla, iisa ang panawagan: ipagtanggol ang lupa, igiit ang karapatan, at itaguyod ang kapayapaan na nakabatay sa hustisya.

Sa harap ng kabi-kabilang hamon, nananatiling matatag ang diwa ng kolektibong paglaban at pagkakaisa. Ang laban para sa sariling pagpapasya at paglaya ay laban nating lahat; isang panrehiyon at pandaigdigang pakikibaka para sa tunay na demokrasya, dignidad, at kalayaan.

Mabuhay ang mamamayan ng Cordillera! Mabuhay ang pakikibaka para sa lupa, buhay, at kapayapaan!

On International Working Women’s Day, the Asia Pacific Research Network (APRN) stands in solidarity with working women across the Asia Pacific whose labor sustains families, communities, and economies.

Despite their immense contributions, women continue to face deep structural inequalities in work and economic participation. Women globally are still paid around 20 percent less than men, and women perform over 16 billion hours of unpaid care work every day worldwide. Women also spend more than 2.5 times as many hours on unpaid care and domestic work as men, limiting their opportunities to participate fully in paid employment, leadership, and decision making. (UN Women, 2024)

Across the Asia Pacific, many women remain concentrated in informal, low paid, and precarious sectors such as agriculture, domestic work, services, and global supply chains where labor protections are often weakest.

Yet working women across the region continue to organize, lead movements, defend communities, and advance struggles for labor rights, social justice, and people centered development.

On this International Working Women’s Day, APRN calls on governments and institutions to strengthen labor protections, ensure equal pay, invest in public care systems, and protect the rights of women workers across all sectors.

A just and equitable future depends on recognizing the rights, leadership, and contributions of working women.

Aaron Ceradoy of the Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants and Chairperson of the Asia Pacific Research Network examined the structural conditions shaping the Asia-Pacific region that situated APRN’s research conference within a wider context and framework.

The paper analyzes widening inequality, labor precarity, unemployment, and the informalization of work, alongside the concentration of wealth and the expansion of trade blocs, debt-driven development, and international financial institutions.

It forms part of the conference’s broader research discussions on conditions in the Asia-Pacific region, situated within APRN’s ongoing work on imperialism, development, labor, and people’s movements. The inclusion of this paper contributes to collective analysis and exchange among researchers, organizations, and movements engaged in documenting structural realities and advancing people-centered perspectives across the region.

Read more: https://www.aprnet.org/at-the-eye-of-the-imperialist-storm-the-situation-in-the-asia-pacific/