The world is seeing a resurgence of religious extremism at national, regional, and global levels, which renews the threat to many of the rights that would be achieved and concretised such as equality of women, of citizens who belong to ethnic and religious minorities, and of sexual minorities. Amid this troubling development, ARROW has published […]

This study explores the barriers and impediments that women and girls in Bangladesh are facing that make it difficult for sexual and reproductive rights (SRR) to be realized. While the country mandates inclusion of curricula on sexuality and reproductive health (SRH) in formal and non-formal education sectors, the matter is generally weakly addressed, resulting in […]

This policy brief aims to provide an overview of the situation of sexual and reproductive rights (SRR) within Maldives and to give recommendations to relevant stakeholders based on the findings of this brief. The brief uses key indicators mentioned in the Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Center for Women (ARROW)’s publication “An Advocates’ Guide: Strategic Indicators […]

This regional profile is an effort to highlight indicators related to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and sexual and reproductive rights (SRR) across 15 countries in the region: Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam. ARROW came together with partners in these countries to promote […]

Demands to governments, non-governmental bodies, young people, and other stakeholders based on young people’s experiences in Asia.

In the Pacific region 56% of the population is under the age of 25. Pacific young people have diverse needs, opportunities and experiences, living as they do across 20,000 islands around the Pacific ocean. This dynamic group of young people live in urban and rural areas, on remote islands and in large cities. They have […]

Young people make up nearly half of the global population, with approximately 88% living in developing countries.1 The Asia-Pacific region alone accounts for 60% of the youth population, amounting to approximately 750 million persons. In Asia, young people are heterogeneous, and have come from all walks of life. They are in-school and out of school, […]

In Central and Eastern Europe youth and adolescents aged 15-24 constitute almost 11% of the population, which means there are over 30 million young people in the region. Along with women, they remain the most affected by this situation and yet their needs and challenges are not understood, recognised and addressed – young people disappear […]

2014 is a key year as it marks 20 years of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD-PA) and concludes a review process of its implementation to define the next steps. It is necessary that those in charge of designing the new international agreements beyond Cairo and the development […]

Sexuality is an integral and natural part of life, and is intertwined with the most fundamental of human rights. WHO recognizes “the highest attainable standard of health as a fundamental right of every human being,”2 and if this right to health is to be achieved, human beings have to be able to exercise choice in […]