Asean

Myanmar’s Neighbors Must Build Trust Among Rohingya Refugees

November 10, 2019

At the 33d summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Singapore last year, the issue of Myanmar’s Rakhine/Rohingya crisis was high on the agenda. The chairman’s closing statement expressed the group’s readiness to support Myanmar in repatriating refugees by conducting a needs-assessment overview in Rakhine State. The Muslim Rohingya had fled ethnic …

Asia, Refugees, WORLDVIEWS

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Vijay Nambiar, UN Envoy, Untangles the Problems Plaguing Myanmar

May 19, 2014

by Barbara Crossette

The surprising move in 2010 by a repressive Burmese military regime to begin ceding power to the nation’s people was just the beginning of a tangled story. The new democracy held its first credible election less than two years later — an election that catapulted Aung San Suu Kyi, barely 18 months free of …

Asia, Development, Myanmar

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The Quest for Peace and Calm in the Pacific

January 17, 2013

by Jayantha Dhanapala

KANDY, Sri Lanka — As the focus of global political and economic power shifts to the Asia-Pacific region and the United States feels compelled to pivot its strategic forces from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the relationship among major East Asian countries acquires critical importance. Residual cold war disputes across the Atlantic are likely …

Asia, International Justice, Peace and Security, WORLDVIEWS

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Philippines Defies Church, Giving Contraception to the Poor

January 2, 2013

by Barbara Crossette

It took a committed president of the Philippines, Benigno Aquino III, and a Filipino Congress concerned about rising maternal mortality and continuing population growth amid widespread poverty, to overcome strong opposition from the Roman Catholic church and make contraception freely accessible to millions of poor women beginning in 2013. The adoption in mid-December of …

Asia, Health and Population, Women

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Regional Partners Lighten the UN’s Burdens

November 26, 2011

by Barbara Crossette

Since the founding of the United Nations more than 65 years ago, groups of regional nations – in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas – have become the organization’s political, peacekeeping and development partners. While some of these groups have kept a low profile, several now find themselves in the international spotlight as crucial …

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Asean

Myanmar’s Neighbors Must Build Trust Among Rohingya Refugees

Vijay Nambiar, UN Envoy, Untangles the Problems Plaguing Myanmar

The Quest for Peace and Calm in the Pacific

Philippines Defies Church, Giving Contraception to the Poor

Regional Partners Lighten the UN’s Burdens

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