Organisasi Pengakap Sedunia, WOSM berada di bawah tekanan hebat untuk mengkritik Undang-undang Anti-Homoseksual Uganda kerana pencadang rang undang-undang tersebut, David Bahati yang juga Ahli Parlimen Uganda adalah merupakan Pengerusi Majlis Pengakap Uganda.
Setelah skala bencana yang mengerikan di Haiti didedahkan, pertubuhan Pandu Puteri dan Pengakap Puteri antarabangsa terus menerus menyalurkan dana, sokongan dan doa kepada saudara se-kepanduan mereka di negara yang sedang dilanda krisis.
Scout Executives from different national Scout organizations in the Asia-Pacific Region are now in Bangladesh for the 48th APR Basic Management Course at the National Scout Training Center in Gazipur District.
Twenty-three people from seven developing countries and six developed countries attended the United Nations climate change conference (COP15) as part of the WAGGGS delegation. OB-PS fully funded the participation of three young women: Ostara Schwarz from Germany, Miriam Otieno from Kenya, and Nanees Diaa El-Din Monir Refaat from Egypt.
Much has been reported about the devastation and anguish in Haiti after the tragic earthquake, but thousands of survivors are suffering emotionally without mental health professionals to help them deal with the trauma. Recognized New York clinical psychologist Dr. Judy Kuriansky was in Haiti soon after the tragedy to answer this much overlooked need.
Thousands of scouts are set to converge in Nairobi later this year as the Kenya Scouts Association (KSA), for the first time, hosts an international scouts meeting.
The Fiji Girl Guides Association have embarked on an initiative of planting mangroves as part of the Suva district schools project for the year 2009.
The annual workshop for the evaluation of Ticket to Life project is taking place at the National Training Centre in Gazipur, Bangladesh from 28th to 31st January 2010. There are 24 participants from eight countries. Ticket to Life is a Scouting program offered to street children in selected countries in the Asia-Pacific Region.
