Across Asia, members of the ANROEV network came together in different ways, but with one shared purpose: to remember workers whose lives were lost, and to keep fighting for those still at risk.
From tributes and testimonies to actions and collective calls for safer workplaces, these commemorations show that remembrance is not passive â it is a commitment.
Swipe through to see how each organization honored IWMD 2026 in their own countries.
Let these moments remind us: our work does not end with remembrance. We carry it forward.
ANROEV has supplied a list of some of their affiliates’ initiatives in various countries campaigning for the recognition of COVID 19 as an occupational and compensable disease.
In Hong Kong the CSGWU and è·ć·„ç(HKCTU) held an #IWMD2019 assembly in front of the Legislative Council, highlighting karoshi (death from overwork) fatalities; between 2013 and 2018 Hong Kong recorded 635 fatality cases where no accident occurred and therefore not considered work-related, meaning no compensation for the workers’ families.
To mark International Workers’ Memorial Day, Hong Kong Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI) affiliate CSGWU will hold a public memorial event near the Central Governmentâs building, with one of their key demands to be for the Government to recognise karoshi (death by overwork) fatalities as workplace accidents.
In Hong Kong CSWGU will conduct joint activities with other local unions raising issues on compensation and prevention of industrial/occupational injury.
