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International Safe Abortion Day 2025
On 28 September, International Safe Abortion Day, we unite in #AbortionSolidarity. Across Asia Pacific and the world, we come together to demand safe, legal, stigma-free, and accessible abortion for all.
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| 17 March 2025
We Cannot Be Silenced: A Unity Statement from LGBTQI+, Feminist and Human Rights Organizations and Networks in Asia
We make this statement at the first-ever gathering of LGBTQI+ and SOGIESC-diverse communities in Asia since the Trump administration’s return to power. Our very presence here is a declaration of resistance and history in the making. We stand bold, united, and unshaken: we will fight the US administration and their allies in their war against rights, gender justice, diversity, inclusion, equality, and freedom. Within days of Donald Trump’s return to power in January 2025, his administration launched an all-out war on human rights, dignity, and justice. In a calculated attack on the most marginalized communities, the US administration reinstated the Global Gag Rule, cutting off critical funding for reproductive health and rights worldwide. He issued sweeping Executive Orders erasing protections for LGBTQI+ people, banning transgender athletes, criminalizing gender-affirming care, and silencing movements for equality. The U.S. government froze nearly all foreign assistance, forcing life-saving programs for LGBTQI+ people, women, people living with HIV and marginalized groups to shut down overnight. By February 7, organizations began receiving termination notices, severing their ability to serve communities most at risk. This is not just an attack on LGBTQI+ rights, it is an assault on gender justice, reproductive justice, racial justice and our collective freedoms. We are witnessing a coordinated effort between the US administration and the world’s most powerful tech corporations to erase history, silence dissent, and suppress movements for justice. The removal of Black History Month, Women’s History Month, and even the branding of Pride and reproductive rights products is a chilling warning: they are trying to erase us. Social media power players like Google, Facebook, and X are conspiring with authoritarian forces to control the narrative and dismantle decades of hard-fought progress. But we refuse to be erased. We refuse to be silenced. The insistence that gender-affirming care is not real healthcare is a direct attack on evidence-based, life-saving medicine. The bans on gender-affirming care for minors and trans athletes are not just policies — they are part of a broader, dangerous ideology that seeks to strip us of our dignity and autonomy. This is not just about LGBTQI+ people. This is about the right of every person to exist freely, without fear of state-sponsored violence and repression.
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| 14 June 2026
We Cannot Be Silenced: A Unity Statement from LGBTQI+, Feminist and Human Rights Organizations and Networks in Asia
We make this statement at the first-ever gathering of LGBTQI+ and SOGIESC-diverse communities in Asia since the Trump administration’s return to power. Our very presence here is a declaration of resistance and history in the making. We stand bold, united, and unshaken: we will fight the US administration and their allies in their war against rights, gender justice, diversity, inclusion, equality, and freedom. Within days of Donald Trump’s return to power in January 2025, his administration launched an all-out war on human rights, dignity, and justice. In a calculated attack on the most marginalized communities, the US administration reinstated the Global Gag Rule, cutting off critical funding for reproductive health and rights worldwide. He issued sweeping Executive Orders erasing protections for LGBTQI+ people, banning transgender athletes, criminalizing gender-affirming care, and silencing movements for equality. The U.S. government froze nearly all foreign assistance, forcing life-saving programs for LGBTQI+ people, women, people living with HIV and marginalized groups to shut down overnight. By February 7, organizations began receiving termination notices, severing their ability to serve communities most at risk. This is not just an attack on LGBTQI+ rights, it is an assault on gender justice, reproductive justice, racial justice and our collective freedoms. We are witnessing a coordinated effort between the US administration and the world’s most powerful tech corporations to erase history, silence dissent, and suppress movements for justice. The removal of Black History Month, Women’s History Month, and even the branding of Pride and reproductive rights products is a chilling warning: they are trying to erase us. Social media power players like Google, Facebook, and X are conspiring with authoritarian forces to control the narrative and dismantle decades of hard-fought progress. But we refuse to be erased. We refuse to be silenced. The insistence that gender-affirming care is not real healthcare is a direct attack on evidence-based, life-saving medicine. The bans on gender-affirming care for minors and trans athletes are not just policies — they are part of a broader, dangerous ideology that seeks to strip us of our dignity and autonomy. This is not just about LGBTQI+ people. This is about the right of every person to exist freely, without fear of state-sponsored violence and repression.
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| 17 March 2025
We Cannot Be Silenced: A Unity Statement from LGBTQI+, Feminist and Human Rights Organizations and Networks in Asia
We make this statement at the first-ever gathering of LGBTQI+ and SOGIESC-diverse communities in Asia since the Trump administration’s return to power. Our very presence here is a declaration of resistance and history in the making. We stand bold, united, and unshaken: we will fight the US administration and their allies in their war against rights, gender justice, diversity, inclusion, equality, and freedom. Within days of Donald Trump’s return to power in January 2025, his administration launched an all-out war on human rights, dignity, and justice. In a calculated attack on the most marginalized communities, the US administration reinstated the Global Gag Rule, cutting off critical funding for reproductive health and rights worldwide. He issued sweeping Executive Orders erasing protections for LGBTQI+ people, banning transgender athletes, criminalizing gender-affirming care, and silencing movements for equality. The U.S. government froze nearly all foreign assistance, forcing life-saving programs for LGBTQI+ people, women, people living with HIV and marginalized groups to shut down overnight. By February 7, organizations began receiving termination notices, severing their ability to serve communities most at risk. This is not just an attack on LGBTQI+ rights, it is an assault on gender justice, reproductive justice, racial justice and our collective freedoms. We are witnessing a coordinated effort between the US administration and the world’s most powerful tech corporations to erase history, silence dissent, and suppress movements for justice. The removal of Black History Month, Women’s History Month, and even the branding of Pride and reproductive rights products is a chilling warning: they are trying to erase us. Social media power players like Google, Facebook, and X are conspiring with authoritarian forces to control the narrative and dismantle decades of hard-fought progress. But we refuse to be erased. We refuse to be silenced. The insistence that gender-affirming care is not real healthcare is a direct attack on evidence-based, life-saving medicine. The bans on gender-affirming care for minors and trans athletes are not just policies — they are part of a broader, dangerous ideology that seeks to strip us of our dignity and autonomy. This is not just about LGBTQI+ people. This is about the right of every person to exist freely, without fear of state-sponsored violence and repression.
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| 14 June 2026
We Cannot Be Silenced: A Unity Statement from LGBTQI+, Feminist and Human Rights Organizations and Networks in Asia
We make this statement at the first-ever gathering of LGBTQI+ and SOGIESC-diverse communities in Asia since the Trump administration’s return to power. Our very presence here is a declaration of resistance and history in the making. We stand bold, united, and unshaken: we will fight the US administration and their allies in their war against rights, gender justice, diversity, inclusion, equality, and freedom. Within days of Donald Trump’s return to power in January 2025, his administration launched an all-out war on human rights, dignity, and justice. In a calculated attack on the most marginalized communities, the US administration reinstated the Global Gag Rule, cutting off critical funding for reproductive health and rights worldwide. He issued sweeping Executive Orders erasing protections for LGBTQI+ people, banning transgender athletes, criminalizing gender-affirming care, and silencing movements for equality. The U.S. government froze nearly all foreign assistance, forcing life-saving programs for LGBTQI+ people, women, people living with HIV and marginalized groups to shut down overnight. By February 7, organizations began receiving termination notices, severing their ability to serve communities most at risk. This is not just an attack on LGBTQI+ rights, it is an assault on gender justice, reproductive justice, racial justice and our collective freedoms. We are witnessing a coordinated effort between the US administration and the world’s most powerful tech corporations to erase history, silence dissent, and suppress movements for justice. The removal of Black History Month, Women’s History Month, and even the branding of Pride and reproductive rights products is a chilling warning: they are trying to erase us. Social media power players like Google, Facebook, and X are conspiring with authoritarian forces to control the narrative and dismantle decades of hard-fought progress. But we refuse to be erased. We refuse to be silenced. The insistence that gender-affirming care is not real healthcare is a direct attack on evidence-based, life-saving medicine. The bans on gender-affirming care for minors and trans athletes are not just policies — they are part of a broader, dangerous ideology that seeks to strip us of our dignity and autonomy. This is not just about LGBTQI+ people. This is about the right of every person to exist freely, without fear of state-sponsored violence and repression.
