AsiaPacificRCEM

Civil society platform to ensure peoples' movements in Asia-Pacific are able to shape sustainable development discourse & engage with the UN system

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Janina Gacosta from the APRCEM Urban Poor Constituency delivered a collective statement during Agenda 2. She highlighted the issues of urban poor communities who are under constant risk of hunger, displacement, and climate vulnerability among others.

#DevelopmentJusticeNow!

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Wannapong Yodmuang of the Asia Pacific Transgender Network delivers a speech at the opening session of the Asia Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development 2026, on behalf of APRCEM.
#DevelopmentJusticeNow #APPFSD2026 #APFSD2026 #PeopleOverProfit #WeWantMultilateralismForThePeoples

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✊ One of the co-chairs of APRCEM, Ajay Kumar Jha, in his Keynote Address, called for confronting the systemic crisis in AP through Development Justice. He urged us to look beyond the SDGs and the 2030 Agenda- to question what is left unsaid.
#PeopleOverProfit #ChangeTheSystem

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Shombi Sharp, the United Nations ESCAP Deputy Executive Secretary, welcomed the participants of the #PeoplesForum2026 by not just by sharing progress within the region but also the challenges peoples face on the ground.

#WeWantMultilateralismForThePeoples

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✊In her welcome remarks, Joy Hernandez, one of the co-chairs of the APRCEM, confronted the brutal truth that today, only around a 3rd of the SDG targets are on track, while many are stagnating or regressing.

#PeopleOverProfit #ChangeTheSystem #ShiftThePower

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We are ready to #Resist #Reclaim and #Rebuild and push our #DevelopmentJustice agenda for the peoples!

📍Tinidee Trendy Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand

#WeWantMultilateralismForThePeople #PeopleOverProfit
#DevelopmentJusticeNow

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✊ Peoples’ movements across Asia Pacific will come together at the 𝐏𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐬’ 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐮𝐦 to shape our collective demands to advance #DevelopmentJustice and raise the united call to #𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐒𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 and #𝐒𝐡𝐢𝐟𝐭𝐓𝐡𝐞�#𝐒𝐡𝐢𝐟𝐭𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫.
📆 22-23 February 2026

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Friends who know @apwld or APRCEM will know that Warda Rina is a global public good. Rina's unwavering commitment to building progressive and feminist movements is something many of us have benefited from. Join us in raising funds for her treatment.

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Our workers & trade unions constituency asserts: These rights were not freely given, but fought for & won thru the struggles of workers & the trade union movement.

ILO’s conventions may reflect such wins, but the real power came from workers fighting 4 dignity 4 all. @ILOAfrica

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HAPPENING TODAY !

#IndigenousData : Strengthening the interlinkage of Human Rights and the #SDGs for #IndigenousPeoples
📆28 February 28, 2025
⏱12:45-14:00 Bangkok Time
📍Room G, UNCC, Bangkok

virtual🔗: https://t.co/h5BC0cDgNt

#APFSD2025

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📷For virtual participation, please register on this link or scan the QR Code below: https://t.co/oZi9wepbF2
#WeAreIndigenous #APFSD2025

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#APFSD2025 ⅼ "To realize the SDGs, we need an action-oriented, bold and convincing multilateralism to translate transformation on the ground for both people and the planet!

Ultimately, we say, #ChangeTheSystem, #ShiftThePower. #DevelopmentJustice now!" Ralf Dugan.

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#APFSD2025 ⅼ Ralf Dugan & Melanie Feranil from the NGO Constituency of the APRCEM are alarmed that only one of the 21 SDG17 indicators is on track, with five regressing since 2015 and highlights that digitalization is increasingly used to undermine civic spaces.

#ShiftThePower

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"Scale up financing for development, ensuring that donor countries fulfill and exceed their 0.7% GNI commitments focusing on the quality of aid through the establishment of UN Convention on International Development Cooperation," Melanie Feranil ⅼ #APFSD2025

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‼️ "It is time to change the system and shift the power—towards Development Justice, towards a future where no one is left behind!"

#APFSD2025 #DevelopmentJusticeNow

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Villaney Remengesau of OMEKESANG, Palau highlights that we are now at a crucial juncture-just five years remain to realize the 2030 Agenda, yet progress across the Asia Pacific remains lackluster with almost half of the indicators not even measurable at the #APFSD2025.

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"Protect civic space, uphold democratic values, curb corporate capture and foster inclusive international cooperation by discouraging retrogressive measures, restrictive laws and stipulations that endanger our collective aspirations for democracy and human rights," Villaney,Palau

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"The people are key to genuine sustainable development, and solutions can only be made with democratic deliberations," Renuka Kad ⅼ #APFSD2025

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#APFSD2025 Renuka Kad highlighting that the governments of the world must listen to their people – the grassroots and marginalised – in line with the whole-of-society approach.
#DevelopmentJustice #ChangeTheSystemShiftThePower

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"We reiterate the need to recognise the values and contributions of civil society and peoples’ organisations in the process, including elevating the voice of the marginalised," Renuka Kad ⅼ #APFSD2025

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"Insufficient data to measure progress in critical areas of the SDGs ignores structural and systemic barriers despite the recent multilateral consensus on the need for global governance reforms in the Pact for the Future," Renuka Kad ⅼ #APFSD2025