Asia-Pacific News

The Big 6 alliance of Youth Organizations recently released a joint position paper highlighting their collective commitment to advancing youth development through delivering quality non-formal education programmes. The joint position of the Big 6...

13 December 2019, Seychelles: A pioneer team of four Youth Advisors for Indian Ocean Zone has been elected as the 1 st Indian Ocean Scout Youth Forum came to a close today in Seychelles. This is a culmination of two-days of discussions that have been...

Over 400 participants and organisations at the World Non-Formal Education Forum today launched a collective call to action to continue to empower millions of young people worldwide through non-formal education. As the main outcome of the Forum, the...

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – More than 400 youth leaders, international youth serving and led organisations, UN agencies, academic experts and educational practitioners are now gathered for the World Non-Formal Education Forum to debate current and...

The Clean Seas Badge is encouraging us to do something for the Oceans, under four areas: plastic reduction, chemicals reduction, sustainible food and partnerships for sustainability. Together Scouts in Interamerica and the UN environment programme...

KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA – Today the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) celebrated in a high-level reception the fifth anniversary since opening its international Support Centre in Kuala Lumpur. The event brought together representatives...

World Scouting held its first Women and Girls Empowerment workshop in the Arab Region, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia from 14-17 November 2019. The workshop focused on Scouting education for boys and girls, with an emphasis on increasing the involvement of...

As the world’s largest educational youth movement, Scouts advocate for the respect, empowerment and protection of children and young people all over the globe. This is at the very core of Scouting values and philosophy! Thirty years ago, in 1989, the...

VIENNA, Austria – Five Scouts from the Asia-Pacific and Interamerican Scout Regions joined nearly 200 prominent religious leaders, theologians, diplomats and representatives from intergovernmental organisations (IGOs) and non-government organisations...

As Scouts we are active citizens and we take part in initiatives that help the environment constantly , like the “Scout for the SDGs” initiative. For a couple of years, the world has achieved an impressive economic expansion, this has been...

The Boy Scouts of the Philippines (BSP) announced on October 25, the winners of this year’s Search for the Ten Outstanding Boy Scouts of the Philippines (TOBS). The winners were selected from the 26 regional finalists, coming from the 2.8 million...

Besides being a great source for funny cat videos, the Internet has the power to bring people closer together. For Scouts, we know it can be a great source for tools and information to make the world a better place. The Internet can also be a source...

Thousands of Scouts present at the 8 th National Scout Venture Camp of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines (BSP) in Iligan City, north of Mindanao came together to plant 3,000 tree seedlings at the National Steel Corporation Compound. The tree planting...

Humayra Ibnat is a female Scout from Bangladesh Scouts who pioneered the first all-girls Scout group in their school comprising of eight members. Her group aims to boost the confidence of all the women they could reach out and to educate them about...

Highlighting and promoting environmental protection, the Afghanistan National Scout Organization (ANSO, in partnership with Afghanistan’s Environment Protection Department and the Civil Society Activist group, led the distribution of 700 cotton bags...