韧性、和平与安全
After 35 years with the UN, here's what I learned
Over my 35 years of work with the United Nations, most recently as the Regional Director of the UN Population Fund for Asia and the Pacific, I have often said that the work of the United ...
The University for Peace was established by the United Nations in 1980 as an international institution of higher learning for peace.
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健康与医疗系统
Just $8.39 per person could give women control over their fertility
Nestled in a remote forest near the border with Vietnam, the village of Labangkhok is one of the poorest in Laos. It’s often cut off from the outside world for months each year, as heavy ...
教育与技能
The key to teaching our children to value, respect and care for each other? Sex education
This year, the World Economic Forum on ASEAN will be focused on youth, and one of the topics we’ll be talking about is education. When we talk about education, a key part of that conversa...
健康与医疗系统
Let's talk about sex. Women's rights and freedoms depend on it
Gender equality, Planet 50-50, #BeBoldForChange. Themes and hashtags that flooded social media feeds last week as the world marked International Women’s Day. They are now being revisited ...
教育与技能
A life of dignity for all girls: today, not tomorrow
Every year, the United Nations Population Fund issues its flagship report, State of World Population (SWOP), highlighting a key theme related to our vision of a world where every pregnanc...
公平、多样性和包容性
Child marriage: not just a girls' problem but an economic disaster
Rekha (not her real name), who lives in the Rangpur Division of Bangladesh, got married when she was just 13 years old – “just after my first menstruation”, as she recalls. A year later t...
健康与医疗系统
关于亚洲人口老龄化，我们需要知道这些
去年，一场肆虐缅甸大部分地区的洪水中，Aye Than和她的家人逃离家乡来到一个路边的临时避难所躲避灾害。现在的她是86岁高龄的父亲和两个年幼的孙儿的看护人。她怀孕的女儿通过打零工赚取微薄的收入，女婿则以外地人的身份四处寻找工作。在缅甸，超过60岁的人口数量高达450万，Aye只是其中一员，他们大都没有收入也得不到社会的支持帮助。 四年前的菲律宾，75岁的Ligaya ...
健康与医疗系统
Asia's population is ageing fast. Here's what we can learn
When floods devastated large swaths of Myanmar last year, Aye Than and her family fled their home for a makeshift roadside shelter. She’s now the caregiver for her 86-year-old father and ...
青年视角
Teenage girls are the key to a better future. But first, they need our help
In 2009, Rachana Sunar’s parents were about to marry off their 15-year-old to a man she’d never met.
深度地理
Sexual health in East Asia: it's a matter of life and death
As a Japanese citizen, I read with great interest the speech US President Barack Obama gave during his recent historic visit to Hiroshima, and one sentence struck me like no other: “Those...