About AROSP

The Asian Roundtable on Social Protection (AROSP) is a network of grassroots workers’ organisations, trade unions, NGOs, and scholars in Asia that work on the issues of formal and informal workers. AROSP serves as a platform to provide mutual help, facilitate information sharing, and help organisations build their understanding on social protection. As a regional network, it aims to support and consolidate the regional struggle for social protection for the poor across various sectors in Asia.

In this issue:

• Forging people's unity towards social transformation and economic emancipation: Declaration of the Fifth Roundtable on Social Protection
• Hospital raids in Bekasi: Powert struggle to access hospital services - Abu Mufakhir
• Southeast Asian activists exchange knowledge and experiences on gender equality and social protection
• Capacity building of Cambodian and Lao grassroots workers on social protection
• Social protection advocates gather in Indonesia for the 5th AROSP, call for social transformation
• Dispossession from development: The struggles of the people of Sukamulya - Aliansi Gerekan Reforma Agraria