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End the War. Stop the Destruction.
Greenpeace Southeast Asia condemns the escalating war in Southwest Asia and the governments driving it. Since February 2026, military strikes, including those carried out by the United States and Israel…
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Fisheries transparency now: time for Southeast Asia to catch up
Out on the open ocean, much of the fishing world still operates in the shadows as a result of the lack of transparency and observership in global fisheries. A vessel…
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SEA-Bling Solidarity: Southeast Asia’s Light in the Dark
Sometimes, solidarity doesn’t begin with a march or a manifesto. It starts quietly, in the smallest corners of the internet.
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Toxic Pollution Knows No Borders: Greenpeace Thailand and EARTH Thailand Urge ASEAN Leaders to Adopt a Legally Binding Environmental Rights Framework
Ahead of the ASEAN Civil Society Conference/ASEAN Peoples’ Forum in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, taking place from 24–25 May 2025 under the theme “Inclusivity and Sustainability”, Greenpeace Thailand, Ecological Alert and Recovery - Thailand (EARTH), and regional civil society networks are calling on ASEAN leaders to collectively endorse a legally binding ASEAN Environmental Rights (AER) framework…
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Policy Recommendation: ASEAN Must Urgently Address Transboundary Pollution to Protect People and the Region’s Environment
Greenpeace Thailand and the Ecological Alert and Recovery – Thailand (EARTH) call on ASEAN leaders at the 2025 ASEAN Summit to address the growing crisis of…
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2045 and Beyond: Will ASEAN Leaders Prioritise Environmental and Human Rights or a Dirty Economy?
6 Oct 2024 – As the region’s leaders chart the way ahead via ASEAN Vision 2045, it is imperative to ensure that human rights are at the forefront. We urge…
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ASEAN urged to provide implementing guidelines to protect Southeast Asian migrant fishers and ratify C-188
The ASEAN Declaration on the Placement and Protection of Migrant Fishers is an important first step towards eradicating forced labour and human rights abuses in the fishing industry, but the declaration needs to be actualised in order to make a difference. Together with Team 9, we want ASEAN to move the discussion forward and provide…
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Greenpeace on ASEAN’s historic declaration on migrant fishers protection
The declaration is considered a milestone especially for developing countries in Southeast Asia like Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines which are considered the world’s biggest “supplier” of migrant fishers as ship crew to the global fishing industry. This victory is not only for migrant workers rights activists, but also for all Southeast Asian migrant fishers.
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The journey towards migrant workers’ protection in Southeast Asia
Efforts to protect migrant fishing workers is much like climbing in the Himalayas. Very high. Very tough. Very distant.
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24 civil organizations call on ASEAN to better protect migrant fishers’ rights
Jakarta, Indonesia, 28 September 2021— Key human rights, migrant worker, and crime government agencies are failing to protect and meet the needs of Southeast Asian migrant fishers working on-board distant…