نظمت الإسكوا احتفالا باليوم العالمي للمياه: عدم اغفال أحد، يوم الجمعة 22 مارس/آذار 2019 كجزء من الاجتماع التشاوري الإقليمي حول تغير المناخ تحضيراً للمنتدى العربي للتنمية المستدامة والمنتدى السياسي الرفيع المستوى لعام 2019 الذي انعقد في بيت الأمم المتحدة في بيروت في الفترة من 21 إلى 22 آذار /مارس 2019.

Beirut, 22 March 2019 (ESCWA)--While 51 million people from the Arab region still lacked basic water drinking services, 73% of whom lived in rural areas. This is among the conclusions of the new version of ‘2019 United Nations World Water Development Report” (WWDR 2019) launched today at the regional level by the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) as it marked World Water Day in its Beirut headquarters.
 

The side-event focus on means of bridging the gap between policy-makers, civil society and statisticians, which constitutes a major obstacle and a hindrance to making progress on development of policies based on evidence and thus improving the lives of persons with disabilities. It will include presentation of a generic SDG-CRPD Framework of around 100 standard indicators that links CRPD articles to SDG policy areas, including SDG indicators that countries can disaggregate by disability status.