United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
聯合國亞洲及太平洋經濟社會委員會
Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), as a regional institution under the UNs, aims to promote poverty elimination, strengthen regional collaborations and communications, and achieve the goal as sustainable development. Not only enhancing institutional capacities to serve people’s right of the region is ESCAP’s emphasis, but also addressing their needs and aspirations. All of these objectives are pursued by executing work with intergovernmental organizations in Asia and other United Nations entities.
Trackback to 1947, ECOSOC passed the Resolution to set up this agency, set in Shanghai, in order to assist re-building and developing after WWII. In 1949, ESCAP move to the current site, Bangkok, Thailand. In 2015, 2030 Agenda with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was adopted by member states in UNs. They require ESCAP to support the development via their expertise and try to use some economic methods to ensure the implementation of the 2030 agenda. To take one of the countless examples, countries established the Asia Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development as Commission’s integral conference structure to support their reviews of the 2030 agenda progress.
Human Trafficking in Asia
亞州人口販運問題
Human trafficking includes labor trafficking, children trafficking, sex trafficking, forced marriage and trafficking for organ trade. In Asia, among various types of human trafficking, the rate of labor trafficking is the highest. The reason why human trafficking is so rampant. On one hand, it is related to the country’s social situation. On the other hand, the government faces lots of obstacles because the accurate statistic of crime is difficult to acquire, mainly due to the fact that human trafficking is under-detected or under-reported, and hence under prosecuted. The United Nations has started to cooperate with NGOs to help the victims of human trafficking and established an international protocol, known as UN TIP Protocol (Trafficking in Persons), for the adjudication of human trafficking. However, to solve the fundamental causes of human trafficking, it is still necessary for all countries to cooperate and negotiate.
人口販賣的受害群眾包括勞工、兒童、性工作者、逼婚人口和器官販賣人口。在亞洲，各類型的人口販運中，勞工人口販運率最高。 人口販賣如此猖獗的原因，一方面與社會狀況有關；另一方面，則是因為人口販運未經發現、舉報而受到起訴，很難獲得準確的犯罪統計數據，政府面臨著重重難關。 聯合國現已開始與非政府組織合作，以幫助人口販運受害者，並制訂了一項裁決人口販運問題的國際議定書，即《聯合國人口販運議定書》。然而，要解決人口販運的根本原因，各國仍有必要進行合作與協商。