The meeting provided an opportunity to brief national focal points about the project, its objectives and components and progress to date.

On 15 June 2016, ESCWA and UNDESA organized a side event during the ninth session of the Conference of States Parties (COSP9) to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).

This workshop provided an occasion to explore the potential of conditional cash transfer programmes to break inter-generational cycles of poverty and to contribute to long-term development.
 

The Beirut-based United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) held a training program on Wednesday and Thursday 10 and 11 August 2016 at the American University of Beirut (AUB), as part of the overall training given to a group of the university students who will partici

       The Deputy Director of the ESCWA Centre for Women, Ms.

The report covers persistent Israeli practices and policies, particularly those that are in violation of international humanitarian law and international human rights law and that affect the social and economic conditions of the people living under its military occupation.