With the pro-democratic uprisings sweeping the region dominating their agenda, senior representatives of several United Nations organizations based in the Arab world have concluded a meeting in Beirut with renewed commitment to strengthen their coordination with all regional economic and social d

Investing an additional USD 40 billion a year in the forestry sector could halve deforestation rates by 2030, increase tree planting by around 140 percent by 2050, and catalyze the creation of millions of new jobs.

Beirut, 13 June 2011 (UN Information Service) — In cooperation with ESCWA, the Federation of the Chambers of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture in Lebanon and the Association of Lebanese Industrialists, the Order of Engineers and Architects in Beirut and the International Finance Corporation, Leb

The Centre for Women of ESCWA today opened an expert group meeting that will be discussing for two days at the UN House in Beirut how to promote the empowerment of women through strategies and media campaigns.

Participants in ESCWA’s meeting on “Strategies and Media Campaigns to Promote the Empowerment of Women in the ESCWA Region" today called for proper documentation of women’s roles in the movements of change and promoting this image in international media.

ESCWA and the League of Arab States (LAS) are organizing a Partnership Building Forum for the Implementation of the Arab Top Level Domains (TLD) “.arab” & “.عرب”, on 5 and 6 July 2011 at the Fairmont Heliopolis and Towers Hotel in Cairo, Egypt.

ESCWA today opened a meeting of regional and international experts to discuss the main aspects of the transport sector, its emissions and their impact on climate change.

Beirut, 7 July 2011 (United Nations Information Service) – A United Nations report released today on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) showed that Western Asia made good progress in improving the survival and health of mothers and children, as maternal deaths declined by 52 percent between