Asia and the Pacific
The Asia-Pacific is the part of the world in or near the Western Pacific Ocean. Asia-Pacific varies in area depending on context, but it generally includes South, East, Southeast Asia, as well as Oceania. The term may also include parts of Russia (on the North Pacific and especially its Far East regions) and countries in the Americas which are on the coast of the Eastern Pacific Ocean; the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, for example, includes Canada, Chile, Russia, Mexico, Peru and the United States. Alternatively, the term sometimes comprises all of Asia and Australasia as well as Pacific island nations (Asia-Pacific …
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UNEP: United Nations Environment Programme · 18 September 2024 English
Contact Overview SEA of Solutions (SoS) is a flagship partnerships event towards solving plastic pollution at source. Since its launch in 2019, SoS has served as a platform for sharing …
Environment Programme Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific and the Coordinating Body on the Seas of …
ADB: Asian Development Bank · 22 August 2024 English
The project will be aligned with the following impact: social welfare system strengthened to build resilience and promote human and social development. The outcome will be: health, resilience, and socioeconomic …
prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable Asia and the Pacific, while sustaining its efforts to eradicate …
ADB: Asian Development Bank · 23 May 2024 English
This manual explains how to identify and address hazardous traffic blackspots in Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) countries to help save lives, reduce injuries, and support economies.
prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable Asia and the Pacific, while sustaining its efforts to eradicate …
ADB: Asian Development Bank · 23 May 2024 English
This publication explains how deep-tier supply chain finance (DTSCF) can unlock financing for small and medium-sized enterprises, improve financial stability, and ensure complex supply chains become more transparent and resilient.
prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable Asia and the Pacific, while sustaining its efforts to eradicate …
World Bank Group · 22 May 2024 English
32 in AFE and 35 in AFW; (ii) 10 in East Asia and the Pacific; (iii) 11 in Europe and Central Asia; (iv) …
Amnesty International · 22 May 2024 English
On 15 May 2024, Ahmad Farhad, a Kashmiri journalist and poet, was forcibly disappeared from his home in the capital city of Pakistan, Islamabad, and his whereabouts remain unknown. The …
Amnesty International · 21 May 2024 English
Since 7 April, over 100 Indigenous Bawm people have been arbitrarily arrested as part of an ongoing military operation in the Chittagong Hill Tracts in southeastern Bangladesh. They are accused …
Amnesty International · 21 May 2024 English
Responding to the first international advisory opinion by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea issued today which held that anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GhG) emissions constitute pollution of …
Court of Human Rights. NEWS AFRICA AMERICAS ASIA AND THE PACIFIC EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA MIDDLE EAST AND …
World Bank Group · 21 May 2024 English
This paper provides an assessment of the fiscal and social impacts resulting from the fuel price adjustments undertaken in 2022. The note lays out policy options and their potential fiscal …
———. 2022. “Reforms for Recovery”. East Asia and the Pacific Economic Update, October 2022. ———. 2023 …
Lowy Institute for International Policy · 21 May 2024 English
In the new episode of The Director’s Chair , the Lowy Institute’s Executive Director Michael Fullilove is joined by the US Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell. They discuss Kurt …
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