We, women, environmental, indigenous people's and women’s rights organizations from Mongolia, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and other Asian countries today unite by unfurling a giant collaborative quilt on the impacts of global warming on Asian communities and the people's responses to these problems in front of the United Nations ESCAP building for the ongoing United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change intersessional meeting.

In times of disaster, the OWWA still remains as ineffective as ever in helping us OFWs and our families. The OWWA Fund must be released to those in need without any conditionality.

We fisherfolks coming from different organizations in Sri Lanka, India, Philippines, and Thailand are here in front of United Nation ESCAP to dramatize our plight caused by the worsening impacts of climate change to marine ecosystems and our communities.

The Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific will host an international conference entitled “Confronting the Food Crisis and Climate Change” to be held from the 27th-29th September at the Copthorne Orchid Hotel in Penang, Malaysia. The conference will feature over 100 participants representing countries from the Asia Pacific region, Africa, North America and Europe.

An African workshop on the climate change crisis led to the formation of the Africa Peoples' Movement on Climate Change (A-PMCC), which issued their declaration and calls in confronting the climate crisis.

A "People's Manifesto on Jobs and Justice" was initiated by the Asian Peasants’ Coalition, Bail out the People Movement, International League of Peoples’ Struggles, International Migrants Alliance and RESIST! (International Peoples’ Campaign to Confront Crisis and War). The Manifesto debunks the myth of economic recovery perpetuated by the global elites in the G20 and their media.  It also calls for decent and socially productive work for all so that the creative potential of the people — which is wasted under the current capitalist system — is mobilized to meet the unmet needs of the world's population and future generations. 

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On Sep 2, 2009, Hong Kong SAR government announced that the food allowance in lieu of free food for foreign domestic helpers would be increased from not less than HKD 300 per month to not less than HKD 740 per month. Please see the full text .

Migrante-Middle East, an alliance of overseas Filipino workers’ organizations in the Middle East, today said it also opposes House Bill 6625, a proposed legislation originated in the House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee imposing tax on text messages.

Thousands of workers, farmers, women, students and youth marched against the WTO Ministerial meeting which started in New Delhi today. Farmers from Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Rajasthan, students and youth from Himachal Pradesh, Haryana and Delhi and workers from Delhi participated in the protest march from Mandi House to Parliament Street. The protesters carried colourful banners and placards against the WTO and the UPA Government’s shifting positions in the Doha Round, which will adversely affect the interests of Indian people. The March was followed by a public meeting at the Parliament Street.