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• Respect human rights – Free the refugees! Reject Australia's 'Indonesian solution'! Welcome the asylum seekers - Joint statement. November 5, 2009
• Asia-Pacific: Authoritarianism prevents press freedom progress in much of Asia - Reporters Without Borders Statement. October 31, 2009
• Build working class unity in South East-Asia - Joint Statement. October 15, 2009
• Asia: Council-members violating the rights and work of Human Rights Defenders - Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC). September 22, 2009
• The ALRC underlines flaws in Asia's institutions of the rule of law during UN debate - Asian Legal Resource Centre Oral Statement. September 15, 2009
• Recent show trials in Asia - the case of Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma and J.S. Tissainayagam of Sri Lanka - Asian Human Rights Commission Statement. September 2, 2009
• Pacific Islanders call for justice on climate and human rights - Joint Media Release. August 5, 2009
• Asia: Working against torture fundamental to human rights work - Asian Human Rights Commission Statement. June 23, 2009
• Asia: Rural and indigenous women claim our right to food! - Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD) Statement. April 21, 2009
• Over 90 organisations worldwide call for Rohingya and Bangladeshi protection - Statement on the treatment of Rohingya and Bangladeshi ‘Boat People’ in Asia. February 6, 2009

• Rudd and Clark must act on climate displacement - Friends Of The Earth Press Release. August 17, 2008
• Letter to Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd - Human Rights Watch. December 17, 2007
• No aid to military regimes and repression in Burma, Nepal and Phillipines - The Reality of Aid Network, Mumbai - May 25, 2005
• APSOC expresses solidarity with the struggles of South peoples - Press release. December 10, 2004
• Europe Pacific Solidarity Seminar communiqué - Saint-Prix, France. 15th-17th October, 2004
• Asia Peace Alliance formed - ASAP Statement. September 6, 2003
• The ‘Pacific Solution’ is no solution - ASAP Statement. May 15, 2003
• ASAP Supports the Call for a Royal Commission into the Treatment of Refugees - Media Release. December 7, 2001