Social and Human Sciences

Asia-Pacific is home to a stark digital divide that limits the potential of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to open up new worlds of learning in areas where the right to education often remains out of reach. Despite internet coverage...

Governments around the world, including in the Asia-Pacific region, are closing civic spaces – not just in autocratic states but also in well-established democracies. Civic space — both online and offline — is where people can freely exercise their basic...

The majority of the world’s youth call Asia-Pacific home – some 700 million young people with the potential to be the change-makers, innovators and leaders this region needs to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). And yet that potential will...

"Girls can’t do Muaythai? Rubbish!” says 13-year-old Crystal Cook, scoffing at the suggestion that some might consider it a “boy’s sport”. “Girls have every right to do Muaythai. It is a highly skilled sport that females are excelling at worldwide. Gone...