His Excellency the President of the Yemen Republic, Ali Abdallah Saleh received last night in his Hodeida residence Ambassador Bader Omar AlDafa, UN Under-Secretary-General and UN-ESCWA Executive Secretary, in the context of his official visit to Yemen, in preparation for UN-ESCWA’s 25th Ministerial Session, to be held in Sana’a late May. In addition to the accompanying UN-ESCWA delegation, His Excellency the Prime Minister, Dr. Ali Muhammad Mujawwar, as well as Hodeida Governor, Mr. Ahmad Abdallah Al Hujari and Mr.

As the 8th of March of each year has become a worldwide event that places women at its centre, ESCWA Deputy Executive Secretary Nadim Khoury, Senior ESCWA Economist Abdallah Al Dardari, Former Minister of State for the Lebanese Parliament’s Affairs Wafa Al Diqa Hamzeh, Deputy Director of the Middle East and North Africa Program at the International Center for Transitional Justice Anne Massagee, and Director of KAFA Enough Violence and Exploitation Zoya Rohana, gather to speak against violence against women.

Beirut, 30 July 2019 (ESCWA)-- Within the framework of the “Regional Initiative for Promoting Small-Scale Renewable Energy Applications in rural areas of the Arab Region (REGEND), the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) kicked off this morning at the UN House in Beirut the “National Meeting on Women Empowerment and Entrepreneurial Development in the Rural Context: The Role of Renewable Energy