Organizations that are part of the South Asian Coalition address and advocate around a range of policy issues, including:
- Preservation of the rights of South Asian immigrants who face challenges, targeting, exclusion, and discrimination by and within the immigration system, including preservation of language access
- Access to linguistically and culturally sensitive services and benefits, including those provided by state and federal government agencies, in the arenas of housing, employment and labor, education, affordable and holistic health care for South Asian communities and the general public, including mental health, reproductive care, abortion care, and gender-affirming care
- Preservation of rights of South Asians facing exclusion, discrimination, surveillance, violence, harassment, transnational repression, trafficking, domestic abuse, criminalization, and targeting based on caste, faith, national origin, class, gender identity and expression, language proficiency, immigration and citizenship status, sexual orientation, ability or other protected characteristic, and dismantling the systems and structures that enable such oppression.
- Elimination of caste oppression in all contexts as well as the systems, policies, and dynamics that reinforce it
- Just and inclusive economy that provides workers with fair working conditions, good wages and benefits, expansive rights and power, safety and wellness, and access to benefits
- Elimination of all forms, narratives, systems, and politics of hatred, nationalism, authoritarianism, and supremacy and other types of oppression that polarize and divide communities
- Protection of community members facing unanticipated crises such as pandemics, climate disasters, and other emergencies
- US foreign policy in South Asia and around the world that preserves human rights and democratic governance
- Seeking full and equal participation of South Asians in civic life through data equity and disaggregation and being fully represented in the U.S. census and special budgeting and resource allocation effort
- Dismantling the policies, systems, and structures, such as mass surveillance and profiling established as part of the Global War on Terror, which caused significant harm to Black, African, Arab, West Asian, Muslim, Sikh, and South Asian communities in the United States and abroad and continue to be used against marginalized groups