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Creating business opportunities for women through ICT
(United Nations, 2001-12)
<p>This publication examines the development of electronic commerce and its impact on employment opportunities particularly on women. Both developed and developing economies are in need of skilled IT specialists to cope ...
Contributions of multilateral and bilateral agencies toward achieving EFA goals in the Asia-Pacific region
(UNESCO PROAP, 2000)
<p>The World Declaration on Education for All was a global commitment that has been taken seriously by governments of the Asia-Pacific region. There is perhaps no need to reiterate the fact that the primary responsibility ...
Rehabilitation of juvenile delinquents in the ESCAP region
(United Nations, 1993)
<p>Youth crime and delinquency should not be treated as an isolated problem to be dealt with in an ad hoc and fragmentary manner. Rather, it should be approached as a complex, multi-dimensional phenomenon requiring systematic ...
Working towards social integration in the ESCAP region
(United Nations, 2001)
<p>This paper discusses the issues, approaches and policy options towards social integration in the ESCAP region in the context of the Copenhagen Declaration and the Agenda for Action on Social Development in the ESCAP ...
Asian and Pacific decade of disabled persons, 1993-2002 : the starting point
(United Nations, 1993)
<p>In the context of progress in regional peace, economic dynamism, and a heightened sense of concern for the most vulnerable of disadvantaged social groups, the Commission at its forty­ eighth session, held at Beijing ...
Socio-cultural impact of human resources development
(United Nations, 1992)
<p>This study is divided into five parts. General perspectives on human resources development and the background to this study form the subject of part one. Part two considers the problems of development for the poor and ...
The role of the family in development : four studies of the situation in Asia and the Pacific
(United Nations, 1993)
<p>In compliance with the General Assembly resolution 44/82, unanimously proclaimed 1994 as the International Year of the Family (IYF), the Asian and Pacific Preparatory Meeting for the International Year of the Family was ...
Asia-Pacific population policies and programmes : future directions : report and key future actions of a high-level meeting
(United Nations, 1998)
<p>The High-level Meeting to Review the Implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Bali Declaration on Population and Sustainable Development and to Make ...
Women in Asia and the Pacific, 1985-1993
(United Nations, 1994)
ESCAP organized the Second Asian and Pacific Ministerial Conference on Women in Development in Jakarta, 7-14 June 1994 to review and appraise implementation of the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of ...
Statistical compendium on women in Asia and the Pacific
(United Nations, 1994)
In response to growing demands from government and non-governmental organizations and experts working on women’s issues for information including statistics and data on women in Asia and Pacific, ESCAP launched a ...