Asia Pacific Research Network (APRN)

The Asia Pacific Research Network (APRN) was established in 1998 to develop cooperation among alternative research centers and social movements in the Asia-Pacific Region, and raise capacity in advocacy and education, particularly in the conduct of research, information, education and advocacy-related activities on natural resources.

Increasing poverty coupled with people's loss of rights and their diminishing control over their patrimony and national lives has led APRN to become prominent in addressing issues on trade, debt, financing for development, peace and security, gender, food and agriculture, migration, labor, TNCs, regional cooperation, privatization of water services, and human rights.

The APRN sees these issues both as a challenge and an opportunity for research and in raising the level of social awareness, advocacy and growth of social movements across the region.