ASEAN at a crossroads: why we need to talk about girls’ rights (Anne-Birgitte Albrectsen, ASEAN)

Asia is a restless continent. Its economies have grown and transformed at a giddying pace, reshaping the social and physical landscape in ways that could barely have been imagined only three decades ago. The ASEAN countries in particular are experiencing a period of dramatic change, collectively becoming the world’s seventh-largest economy by 2011. Now, as their economies integrate further, bringing the certainty of further growth and social change, it seems timely to ask what sort of region will emerge from the next phase of transformation

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/05/girls-rights-asia-asean-education