Publications

The UNESCO Commission on the Futures of Education noted in their 2021 report, Reimagining our futures together: a new social contract for education, that human societies and the planet face urgent and difficult challenges in the coming decades. The...

People with disabilities deserve equal access to high-quality education, including comprehensive sexuality education (CSE). Although young people with disabilities are sexually active and have the same concerns about sexuality, relationships and identity...

In the past decade, the landscape for adolescents and young people living with HIV (AYPLHIV)1 has changed dramatically, with many advances in prevention and treatment options. However, when it comes to receiving timely diagnosis, accessing new prevention...

A new social contract for education in the Asia-Pacific region paves the way for building fairer and strengthened education systems in the post-COVID-19 era. It will repair inequalities, while transforming the future, rebuild relationships with each other...

Students learn best in schools that provide safety and social support. However, some young people experience violence and harassment in, around, and on the way to school. This includes gender-based violence (GBV), which can take many different forms and...

In light of contemporary social, health, economic and environmental issues, education must empower all learners with the knowledge, skills, values and attitudes to live cooperatively, be flexible, think critically, respect diversity, care for the...

School violence refers to physical, psychological, and sexual violence that takes place in school, on the way to school, online, and wherever school relationships exist. Some forms of school violence may be explicitly or implicitly gender-based. School...

This study aims to understand the needs of LGBTI young people and Young Key Populations (YKP) in the AIDS response in the Asia-Pacific region, in their quest for more secure digital spaces and improved experiences of digital citizenship. Based on the...

Across the Asia-Pacific region, 23 million teenagers aged between 15 and 19 are already married, and in 2019 alone, there were an estimated 3.7 million births to 15 -19-year-old girls in the region, most in the context of early marriage. The minimum age at...

Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) is a curriculum-based process of teaching and learning about the cognitive, emotional, physical and social aspects of sexuality. It goes beyond simply providing education about reproduction, risks and diseases by...