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May 23, 2022
OP-ED by Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana, Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana is the United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. The Asia-Pacific region is at a crossroads today – to further breakdown or breakthrough to a greener, better, safer future. Since the Economic and Social Commission for Asia ... <a title="OP-ED: Reclaiming our future" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/23/op-ed-reclaiming-our-future/" aria-label="Read more about OP-ED: Reclaiming our future">Read more</a>
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April 12, 2022
Op-Ed by Raymond Maisano, Head of Australia and New Zealand, Cloudflare It’s been over ten years since Forrester initially coined the term ‘Zero Trust’. The cybersecurity concept has surged in popularity in recent years, becoming the choice approach to protecting remote and hybrid workers from the growing cyber threats and data breaches brought on by ... <a title="Op-Ed: Employees are make or break to the Zero Trust journey" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/12/op-ed-employees-are-make-or-break-to-the-zero-trust-journey/" aria-label="Read more about Op-Ed: Employees are make or break to the Zero Trust journey">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2022
Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana – United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary ESCAP. 2022 marks the second anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic, and while an end to the pandemic is in sight, it is far from over and the consequences will be felt for decades to come. At the same time, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development ... <a title="OP-ED: Pandemic pushes SDGs further out of reach of Asia and the Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/17/op-ed-pandemic-pushes-sdgs-further-out-of-reach-of-asia-and-the-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about OP-ED: Pandemic pushes SDGs further out of reach of Asia and the Pacific">Read more</a>
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December 15, 2021
Op-Ed by United Nations Secretary General António Guterres GCC GCL. New York, December 2021 – We live in worrying times. The climate crisis, stark inequalities, bloody conflicts and human rights abuses, and the personal and economic devastation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic have put our world under greater stress than it has faced in my lifetime. ... <a title="OP-ED: UN Secretary General on the Tenth Review Conference on the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/15/op-ed-un-secretary-general-on-the-tenth-review-conference-on-the-parties-to-the-treaty-on-the-non-proliferation-of-nuclear-weapons/" aria-label="Read more about OP-ED: UN Secretary General on the Tenth Review Conference on the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons">Read more</a>
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December 14, 2021
OP-ED by Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana; UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) Transport ministers from across Asia and the Pacific are meeting this week to consider a potentially transformational agenda for how people and goods are moved around the region and across the globe. Pre-COVID-19 ... <a title="OP-ED: A new transport agenda to carry Asia and the Pacific towards sustainable development" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/14/op-ed-a-new-transport-agenda-to-carry-asia-and-the-pacific-towards-sustainable-development/" aria-label="Read more about OP-ED: A new transport agenda to carry Asia and the Pacific towards sustainable development">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2021
OP-ED by Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Secretary of ESCAP. As the world observes the International Day of Persons with Disabilities today, we honour the leadership of persons with disabilities and their tireless efforts to build a more inclusive, accessible and sustainable world. At the same time, we resolve to ... <a title="OP-ED: Partnering with persons with disabilities toward an inclusive, accessible and sustainable post-COVID-19 world" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/03/op-ed-partnering-with-persons-with-disabilities-toward-an-inclusive-accessible-and-sustainable-post-covid-19-world/" aria-label="Read more about OP-ED: Partnering with persons with disabilities toward an inclusive, accessible and sustainable post-COVID-19 world">Read more</a>
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November 15, 2021
OP-ED by Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana and Gillian Triggs Most countries in the Asia-Pacific region are on track to reach universal birth registration by 2030: an incredible achievement and a significant milestone in realizing human rights and equality. However, as the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed, many weaknesses remain in official recording systems, creating gaps in knowledge ... <a title="OP-ED: Push for civil registration set to hit key milestone in Asian and Pacific countries" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/15/op-ed-push-for-civil-registration-set-to-hit-key-milestone-in-asian-and-pacific-countries/" aria-label="Read more about OP-ED: Push for civil registration set to hit key milestone in Asian and Pacific countries">Read more</a>
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October 31, 2021
Op-Ed by Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana As the leaders of Asia and the Pacific prepare to head to Glasgow for the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26), they can be sure that our region will be in the spotlight: many of the most vulnerable countries to the impacts of climate change are ... <a title="Op-Ed: Is Asia and the Pacific ready for the global climate stage?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/31/op-ed-is-asia-and-the-pacific-ready-for-the-global-climate-stage/" aria-label="Read more about Op-Ed: Is Asia and the Pacific ready for the global climate stage?">Read more</a>
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October 29, 2021
Op-Ed by António Guterres, UN Secretary-General. The climate crisis is a code red for humanity. World leaders will soon be put to the test at the UN Climate Conference — known as COP26 — in Glasgow. Their actions — or inactions — will show their seriousness about addressing this planetary emergency. The warning signs are hard ... <a title="Op-Ed: The Glasgow Climate Test by António Guterres UN Secretary-General" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/29/op-ed-the-glasgow-climate-test-by-antonio-guterres-un-secretary-general/" aria-label="Read more about Op-Ed: The Glasgow Climate Test by António Guterres UN Secretary-General">Read more</a>
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September 30, 2021
Op-Ed by Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana. The growing number and share of older persons in Asia and the Pacific represent success stories of declining fertility and increasing longevity; the result of advances in social and economic development. This demographic transition is taking place against the backdrop of the accelerating Fourth Industrial Revolution. But COVID-19, with its ... <a title="Op-ED – Digital equity for all ages" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/30/op-ed-digital-equity-for-all-ages/" aria-label="Read more about Op-ED – Digital equity for all ages">Read more</a>
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August 25, 2021
Opinion by Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana. Over the past two decades, the Asia-Pacific region has made remarkable progress in managing disaster risk. But countries can never let down their guard. The COVID-19 pandemic, with its epicentre now in Asia, and all its tragic consequences, has exposed the frailties of human societies in the face of powerful ... <a title="Op-Ed: Asia Pacific – Resilience in a riskier world" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/25/op-ed-asia-pacific-resilience-in-a-riskier-world/" aria-label="Read more about Op-Ed: Asia Pacific – Resilience in a riskier world">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2021
Opinion by Najib Hedayat, courtesy of MakeLemonade.nz. EDITOR’S NOTE: Najib Hedayat came to New Zealand as an Afghan teenage refugee, and later graduated with a master’s commerce degree at the University of Canterbury. He completed much of his postgraduate thesis in Kabul, Afghanistan. According to special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction (SIGAR), a unit created ... <a title="OP-ED: Reasons for the Afghan government collapse – Najib Hedayat" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/20/op-ed-reasons-for-the-afghan-government-collapse-najib-hedayat/" aria-label="Read more about OP-ED: Reasons for the Afghan government collapse – Najib Hedayat">Read more</a>
