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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

As growing numbers of young people enter their reproductive years, they will need significantly expanded reproductive health services. Adolescents in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) have particular reproductive health vulnerabilities such as high adolescent birth rates , this group contributes to over 50% of the global proportion of births taking place in adolescence and to over […]