scholarly journals Networks and norm entrepreneurship amongst local civil society actors: advancing refugee protection in the Asia Pacific region

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice M. Nah
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Refugee Protection

scholarly journals Growing Pains: The Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network at Seven Years

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Savitri Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Internal Governance ◽  
Growing Pains

The mission of the Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network (APRRN), as stated in its Constitution, is ‘to advance the rights of refugees and other people in need of protection in the Asia Pacific region’. This article describes and analyses APRRN’s internal governance and resourcing and the manner in which it is going about achieving its mission. It argues that APRRN’s organisational strength is inadequate to support all that it is trying to do. The article concludes by considering what APRRN could do to improve the likelihood of achieving success in the pursuit of its mission and reflecting on the lessons of the APRRN case study for wider civil society.

scholarly journals Sexual citizenship in a comparative perspective: Dilemmas and insights

Sexualities ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 159-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Sexual Citizenship ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Rights Issues

In this article, the author explores some of the key dilemmas that are involved in attempts to apply concepts such as ‘sexual citizenship’ in a cross-cultural perspective, with particular focus on Australia and other countries in the Asia-Pacific region. The concept of sexual citizenship can usefully be applied to gay and lesbian rights issues in Australia relatively easily. However, it is not quite so easy to apply this concept to some of Australia’s Asian neighbours. Any comparative analysis needs to take differing priorities, conceptions of sexuality, gender, identity, rights, state and civil society into account but, nonetheless, useful insights can be gained. The author argues that the concept of sexual citizenship is even more widely applicable if aspects of other conceptions of citizenship are incorporated into it, such as conceptions of ‘heteronormative’ citizenship and ‘affective’ citizenship.

scholarly journals Understanding the Dynamics and Operations of Civil Society in the 21st Century: A Literature Review

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 108
Author(s):  
Thomas Prehi Botchway
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
21St Century ◽  
First Century ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Different Parts

This article sets out to review the extant literature on civil society. Indeed the literature on civil society abounds with several views and perspectives, especially on the theoretical debates on the concept. However, in order to avoid the unnecessary entanglement of the unending theoretical debates that have characterized the subject, the article focuses on the activities and operations as well as the usefulness of civil society in the twenty first century. The article consequently tries to identify the literature that discusses the activities of civil society across the globe. It begins by giving a general background to the concept of civil society. This is then followed by discussions on civil society and how it relates to democracy and democratic consolidation and development in different parts of the world with particular emphasis on Africa. It then examines the activities of CSOs in Europe, the Asia-Pacific region (with emphasis on Malaysia). It further examines the changing nature of CSOs in the midst of global crisis by discussing how civil society has operated in challenging times amidst financial crisis, terrorism, etc. It concludes by suggesting some new ways of understanding civil society.

Fast-tracking the end of HIV in the Asia Pacific region: domestic funding of key population-led and civil society organisations

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. e366-e372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ravipa Vannakit ◽  
Vladanka Andreeva ◽  
Stephen Mills ◽  
Michael M Cassell ◽  
Melissa A Jones ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Fast Tracking ◽  
Civil Society Organisations ◽  
Key Population

Review of Counseling in the Asia-Pacific Region.

1995 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 383-384
Author(s):  
Terri Gullickson
Keyword(s):  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region
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