About UsWe envision a culturally relevant, effective and inclusive animal justice movement in Asia with strong local leadership.
Animal Alliance Asia (AAA) was founded in 2019 by two Asian women. Our Country Coordinators – the most integral parts of AAA – are all from their respective countries, based there, speak the local languages, and have lived experiences being an advocate in the given cultural context. This unique makeup of our team and our dedication to creating a safer space make us a first-of-our-kind organization, and the local network of communities we have built over the years is our greatest strength.
We work to build a more sustainable, inclusive and effective animal justice movement in Asia.
We strive to achieve this by providing support, mentorship, grants and education to individuals and groups, and by building stronger local leadership and communities of empowered animal advocates across Asia.
OUR CORE VALUES
We are committed to creating and fostering a safer space, where members of all races, genders, gender identities, religions, nationality, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, age, and/or other characteristics that have resulted in a history of being marginalised are valued, respected, safe, and empowered.
NONVIOLENT
We commit to nonviolence, in our actions and communications.
ANTI-SPECIESIST AND ANTI-OPPRESSION
We stand against all forms of oppression.
OPEN TO CHANGE AND LEARNING
We accept that we will always have room to learn and improve.
INCLUSIVE
We welcome all people, and not all behaviours.
OUR KEY DIFFERENTIATORS
AAA is the only organisation in the world that is led by a group of advocates from different countries across Asia dedicated to building a culturally relevant animal justice movement.
We believe that making effective, impactful and long-lasting change requires people with lived experiences in on-the-ground advocacy and leadership in the decision-making process.
We know that how we get there also matters – because we cannot achieve our goal alone.
This is why Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are at the very core of our work and in our DNA – because without fostering a safer space for advocates, the same systemic oppression that we are trying to dismantle would be replicated in our movement, and underrepresented communities and voices will be further marginalised. We are here to offer an alternative, nourishing, welcoming, empowering, collaborative and Asian people-led space – so that more people can advocate for non-human animals.
We are proud to be part of a movement of advocates who want to live in a world where animals are no longer exploited for human use. In order to make this a reality, we need a diverse community of people to advocate for animals.
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We are an organisation founded in 2019 by two Asian women with lived experience of advocating for farmed animals in both English speaking context and their countries of origin.
Nurturing Asian leadership is our strategy to create impactful and long-lasting change for farmed animals.
Our Country Coordinators are based across Asia and are the most integral parts of our organisation. Having the lived experiences allows our advocacy to honour the cultural contexts that may be overlooked. And, of course, allows our advocacy to exist in the context of an already thriving community.
This unique makeup of our team and our dedication to creating a safe space make us a first-of-its-kind organisation, and the local network of communities we have built over the years are our greatest strengths.
Asia is our home. Our fight continues everyday, on the ground.
A locally led movement has the expertise in the complexity of social issues that are directly connected to the farmed animal exploitation and is able to implement approaches that work within that given cultural context. A study recommends us to “approach movement building by viewing the diversity of experiences and strategies within the movement as an asset” and “Reconsider and expand views on what makes for “effective” advocacy.” These approaches are crucial in practising anti-oppressive animal advocacy as they also allow us to “Recognize human exploitation in animal agriculture and the opportunity for collaboration with those humans exploited or otherwise directly harmed by animal agriculture.”
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We need movement building efforts in Asia to welcome more advocates, grow in size, see more initiatives and more diverse interventions in order for our movement to become resilient.
For us, it’s not just a means to an end to expand the pool of recruitable talents. We see it in a much more long-term and wider context - it’s about creating a movement represented by a more diverse community advocating for non-human animals.
With our track record on building rapport with advocates, coupled with research on movement gaps and understanding of culture-specific challenges and solutions, we are ideally positioned to contribute to the growth of the movement
For successful movement building, our programs aim to:
Understand the current landscape of our movement across Asia
Identify gaps in resources and knowledge
Train advocates targeting to fill these gaps
Support local, culturally relevant projects through grants and mentorship
OUR IMPACT
Dig deeper into the unique issues the animal justice movement is facing in Asia and how we make an impact.
OUR TEAM
Meet our team of wonderful change-makers across Asia.
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Strategic Plan 2023 – 2028
Research Report
Annual Review 2023
2022 Annual Review