The IIRE-Manila’s establishment was inspired by the successes of its sister institute, the IIRE-Amsterdam. As such, it is founded as an Asia-Pacific institute where activists, progressive forces, and scholars in Asia and the Pacific, from different traditions, could come together more easily and spend time discussing, debating, and assessing different experiences, frameworks, and paradigms of different movements towards the emancipation of all oppressed peoples of the world. Its core activity is the conducting, organizing, and hosting of different research, educational discussions, and seminars on various issues, situations, and phenomena, and actual learning through exposure to and engagement with grassroots communities and peoples struggling for their basic human rights.