Stories written by Sayuri Cocco Okada

Maternity Benefits: Critical Tool to Ensure Mothers & their Newborns are Free from Poverty

By Sayuri Cocco Okada
Maternity protection is a human right enshrined in Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Income security for newborn mothers ensures their mental and physical wellbeing and contributes to the healthy development of their infants.

Building a More Resilient Work Force to Meet Challenges of Tomorrow

By Sayuri Cocco Okada
Quadrupling in size since 1950, the working age population in Asia and the Pacific now accounts for 67.2 per cent of the total population in the region and is set to peak at 3.3 billion by the mid-2030s.
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