ESCWA participated in a UN Day organized by the UN Information Center (UNIC Beirut) and the Lebanese American University (LAU) at the latter's Beirut campus 27 April in which 17 UN agencies and programs participated.

ESCWA is collaborating with renowned Lebanese actress Carmen Lebbos on the issue of Road Safety through a series of events and awareness campaigns.

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From the UN House in Beirut, and in cooperation with Lebanese actress Carmen Lebbos, ESCWA launched on 17 May the “Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020.” The event was held under the auspices and in the presence of Lebanese Minister of Interior Ziad Baroud, and many diplomats and government

ESCWA wrapped-up the twelfth session of its Transport Committee with recommendations that highlighted road safety, an issue member countries were called to consider a priority, implementing by such the eponym UN Decade of Action launched last week.

The pro-democratic uprisings sweeping the region dominated the agenda of the 15th Regional Coordination Mechanism (RCM) Meeting, which was held 1 June at the UN House in Beirut and brought together regional directors and officials from 22 UN agencies and other international and regional organizat

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.

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.