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15 November 2006
Information Note No. N/42/2006
Asia-Pacific Population Journal
celebrates 20th anniversary
1986-2006: Twenty Years of Progress
in the Field of Population and Development
Bangkok (United Nations Information Services) – The
Asia-Pacific Population Journal has documented knowledge
and thinking in the field of population and development
in the region for over 20 years.
In print since March 1986, the Asia-Pacific Population
Journal, published by ESCAP with financial support from
the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is a highly respected
publication in which leading experts share their evidence-based
findings, theories and opinions on population and development
in the region. The Journal appears three times a year and
is disseminated free of charge to an influential audience
of policy makers, programmes planners and researchers in
over 75 countries. The web-based version of the Journal,
accessible in full text at www.unescap.org/appj.asp recently
enjoyed a surge of popularity with over 180,000 visitors
a month on average in 2006, representing a fivefold increase
since 2005.
The Asia-Pacific Population Journal will mark its 20th anniversary
this year. Among other events to mark this landmark anniversary,
a special commemorative issue has been prepared which focuses
on 20 years of progress in the field of population and development.
It received contributions from prominent experts in the
field, including Mrs. Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, Executive Director
of UNFPA and award-winning demographers John C. Caldwell
from the Australian National University and Mercedes B.
Concepcion from the University of the Philippines.
Numerous thought-provoking and forward-looking articles
on a wide range of topics, from population and development
issues to population ageing, international migration and
reproductive health have filled the publication history
of the Journal, contributed by world-class authors alike
as well as by uncelebrated researchers in smaller countries
of the Asian and Pacific region.
“The various issues of the Asia-Pacific Population
Journal published over the past two decades are a faithful
mirror of the evolving trends and issues discussed in the
field of population and development in the region”,
commented Keiko Osaki, Editor and Chief, Population and
Social Integration Section, Emerging Social Issues Division,
ESCAP. “The Journal has gone from strength to strength
and carved an undisputed niche for itself in the field of
population and development”.
The special 20th anniversary issue of the Asia-Pacific
Population Journal will be launched during a reception on
Monday 20th November at the Shangri-La Hotel in Bangkok,
on the eve of the 2006 International Parliamentarians’
Conference on the Implementation of the International Conference
on Population and Development (ICPD) Programme of Action
to take place at the United Nations Conference Centre on
21st and 22nd November.
For further information, please contact:
Mr. David Lazarus
Chief, United Nations Information Services, Bangkok
Tel: (+662) 288 –1862; Fax: (+662) 288-1052
E-mail: unisbkk.unescap@un.org
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24 January 2006
Press Release No: N/03/2006
Focus on migration in special issue of Asia-Pacific
Population Journal
Bangkok (United Nations Information Services)
– “Migration is the critical population issue
of our time”, states Ronald Skeldon, Professorial
Fellow in Geography, University of Sussex, United Kingdom
in a Viewpoint article published in the Asia-Pacific Population
Journal, December 2005 issue.
Recent trends in international migration in Asia and the
Pacific, migration trends and patterns in South Asia, social
issues in the management of labour migration, impact of
migrant remittances, child migrants and children of migrants
in Thailand , are among various issues addressed by eminent
migration experts in the December 2005 issue of the Journal
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Published three times a year by the United Nations Economic
and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) with
financial support from the United Nations Population Fund
(UNFPA), the Asia-Pacific Population Journal is a highly
respected publication, in which leading population experts
share their opinion and action-oriented research findings
and provide clear policy recommendations regarding population
and development issues in the region.
The Journal , including the December 2005 special issue
on migration is available online, in full-text and for free
at www.unescap.org/esid/psis/population/journal/index.asp
Subscription to e-alerts is possible from the above-mentioned
URL.
Migration “remains the most complex and intractable
of the population variables from both an analytical and
a policy point of view”, Ronald Skeldon said.
“The situation of children of migrants in Thailand
has not received the attention it warrants from government
policy makers, government and programme planners, international
organizations and social researchers”, Jerrold W.
Huguet, private consultant, Bangkok and Sureeporn Punpuing,
Associate Professor, Institute for Population and Social
Research, Mahidol Universitey state in their article, which
reviews the scant knowledge about children of migrants and
migrant children in Thailand, tackles school enrolment and
birth registration issues and gives practical policy recommendations
to improve the situation.
Equally stimulating, the article entitled “Raising
Our Awareness: Getting to Grips with Trafficking in Persons
and Related Problems in South-East Asia and Beyond”
by Phil Marshall, Senior Advisor, United Nations Inter-Agency
Project on Human Trafficking, challenges the status quo.
“Despite unprecedented growth in programmes and policies
to combat trafficking in persons, the problem is generally
believed to be getting worse. It is therefore timely to
review the overall impact that those programmes are having,
and, in particular, the way they are conceived”, the
author states, highlighting important problems in the anti-trafficking
response.
For further information, please contact:
Mr. David Lazarus
Chief, United Nations Information Services, Bangkok
Tel: (+662) 288 –1862; Fax: (+662) 288-1052
E-mail: unisbkk.unescap@un.org
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30 April 2007
Older persons’ AIDS knowledge
in Cambodia, antenatal care services in Afghanistan featured
in Asia-Pacific Population Journal
In the global fight against HIV/AIDS, most efforts to promote
awareness and knowledge of the disease have been oriented
towards youth or prime age adults with little or no attempt
to reach older persons. However, older persons remain at
risk of infection and are, indirectly, greatly affected
by the pandemic as parents and primary caregivers for AIDS
patients in the developing world.
An article published in the April 2007 issue of the Asia-Pacific
Population Journal turns the spotlight on older persons’
AIDS knowledge and willingness to provide care in Cambodia,
a country with one of the highest HIV/AIDS prevalence rates
in Asia. The article argues that older persons have considerable
potential to contribute to the effort to deal with the pandemic.
Considering that knowledge about HIV/AIDS is lower for
older persons than younger adults, the article suggests
that adequately informing older persons about AIDS is crucial
for efforts to combat and cope with the disease. Correct
knowledge about the disease would reduce unfounded fear
of contagion associated with caregiving.
“Older persons in Cambodia – and elsewhere
in the developing world – not only are commonly the
main caregivers for their sons and daughters who become
infected but also have potential to influence their adult
children to avoid risky behaviour”.
The article demonstrates that an “effective route
for the Government of Cambodia and NGOs to improve AIDS
knowledge among Cambodian elderly would be to facilitate
ownership of radios or televisions by those who do not have
them”. The likely impact of such an approach is enhanced
by the fact that Cambodia is currently preparing a new campaign
through the mass media to provide information about HIV/AIDS,
according to the authors of the article.
Very rarely featured in the Asia-Pacific Population
Journal, Afghanistan is the focus of the second article
published in this same issue of the Journal. Recovering
from decades of conflict, Afghanistan has one of the highest
rates of maternal mortality in the world.
The article explores the inaccessibility and utilization
of antenatal health-care services in the northern Balkh
province of the country. “Regardless of the increasing
availability of reproductive health services in recent years,
poor women in the remote villages of the province continue
to suffer from lack of access to services”, the article
notes.
“This study clearly shows that inaccessibility, illiteracy,
poverty and involvement of pregnant women in economic activities
were major barriers to the use of antenatal care”.
The article recommends, among others, expanding mobile
clinic services in order to significantly raise the coverage
and reduce the inequality in the use of antenatal care services.
Issued three times a year by UNESCAP with financial support
from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the Asia-Pacific
Population Journal is a highly respected publication in
which leading population experts share opinion and action-oriented
research findings. Articles published in the Journal provide
clear policy recommendations on population and development
issues in the region.
The online version of the Journal receives over 150,000
hits a month. The April 2007 issue of the Asia-Pacific
Population Journal is available from http://www.unescap.org/appj.asp,
along with the entire and searchable collection of the publication,
in print since 1986.
For further information, please contact:
Or
Ms. Wanphen Sreshthaputra
Asia-Pacific Population Journal
Emerging Social Issues Division,
UNESCAP
Tel: (+662) 288-1586; Fax: (+662) 288-1009
Mobile: 081 824 38 25
E-mail: escap-population@un.org
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