251 Arrow Publications
Published in 2017
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China is the world’s most populous country with a total population of 1.354 billion people by the end of 2012. China’s population continues to increase steadily even as the population growth rate has reduced at 4.95 per 1,000 people in 2012 down from 11.21 per 1,000 people in 1994. Concurrent with China’s ever-increasing population is […]
Published in 2017
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China faces a somewhat unique problem, where their definition of youth (15 to 34 of age) is different than that of the United Nations (UN) (15 to 24). This causes a few problems when it comes to research on adolescent issues in the country, seeing how under the current definition of youth, they account for […]
Published in 2016
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SRHR are an often vaguely-understood and overlooked component in development; yet their role is fundamental to achieving “sustainable well-being for all” in “the world we want”— two popular catchphrases in the post-2015 debate. Although SRHR proponents have been advocating for the full recognition of these rights for years, they have yet to be given their […]
Published in 2014
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China is the world’s most populous country with a total population of 1.354 billion people by the end of 2012. China’s population continues to increase steadily even as the population growth rate has reduced at 4.95 per 1,000 people in 2012 down from 11.21 per 1,000 people in 1994. Concurrent with China’s ever-increasing population is […]
Published in 2014
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China, the world’s most populous country and home to the oldest continuing civilization, has been currently experiencing rapid socio-economic changes and is becoming one of the fastest growing economies in the world. Although the country’s population growth rate has been slowing since the early 1990s, with 4.95 per 1,000 people in 2012 compared to 11.21 […]
Published in 2014
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Health of individuals, families, and communities is influenced by a multitude of social determinants, including poverty and food security. The Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) under the World Health Organization (WHO) published in 2008 the report, which critically studied the reasons behind inequities in health and challenged the conventional view of public health. […]
Published in 2013
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Migration and population mobility has become a permanent facet of a rapidly globalising world, and the Asia-Pacific region is no exception. In 2010, Asia accounted for 27.5 million international migrants, representing close to 13% of the total global figure of 214 million. Women constituted 48% or almost half of that On the other hand, the […]
Published in 2012
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Sex and reproduction are contentious issues: the divide between those who advocate for granting greater individual autonomy and those who argue for greater social control is evident at all political levels. To confer rights connected to the issues of sex and reproduction, UN conventions and conferences, such as the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination […]
Published in 2012
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Sex and sexuality are contentious issues: the divide between those who advocate for granting greater individual autonomy and those who argue for greater social control is evident at all political levels. To confer rights connected to the issues of sex and sexuality, UN conventions and conferences such as Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against […]
Published in 2012
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We explore the linkages of poverty, food security, and sexual and reproductive health and rights. We underscore the need to take a synoptic view regarding the vulnerability of women’s lives in the Asia-Pacific region when assailed by poverty while simultaneously accounting these factors in SRHR. We suggest ARROW action pathways borne from the world views […]