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| 18 December 2017 |
ESCWA Marks UN Arabic Language Day |
The United Nations employs multilingualism as a tool to promote multilateralism and cross-cultural communication, with each of the six official languages celebrated on a specific day. World Arabic Language Day is commemorated on 18 December, the day when the United Nations General Assembly approved Arabic as an official and working language of the United Nations. |
| 30 May 2019 |
ESCWA signs technical cooperation memo with Iraq |
Beirut, 30 May 2019 (ESCWA)--United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of ESCWA Rola Dashti today signed a Technical Cooperation (TC) framework with the Iraqi government, represented by the Minister of Planning, Mr. Nouri Al-Dulaimi, for the period 2019-2020. |
| 11 December 2014 |
ESCWA Marks World Water Day 2014 |
To mark World Water Day 2014, ESCWA cooperated with the Association of the Friends of Ibrahim Abdel Al, the Association of Lebanese Industrialists (ALI) and the UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in holding a seminar entitled "The Water-Energy Nexus: Issues and Challenges", on 21 March, at the Order of the Press in Beirut. |
| 11 August 2015 |
School Students Visit ESCWA, Get Briefed on its Activities |
“What ESCWA is, What ESCWA Does,” was the main theme of a briefing presented by Nadine Daou, Researcher in ESCWA Social Development Division, and Mirane Abi Zaki and Maryam Sleiman, Public Information Assistants, ESCWA, to a group of students from the Frères Libanais School- Hadath, who visited ESCWA headquarters on 4 and 5 May 2015. |
| 11 December 2014 |
OPEC Fund Director-General to Lecture at UNESCWA Thursday |
UNESCWA is set to host a lecture by Mr. Suleiman Al-Herbish, Director-General of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Fund for International Development this Thursday 20 April 2006 at 12 noon at the UN House, Beirut. |
| 11 December 2014 |
Arabic Script Use on Internet on UN-ESCWA Agenda |
Arabic script on the internet will be the main subject of an expert group meeting (EGM) organized by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UN-ESCWA), in cooperation with "Afilias" Global Registry Services and ".org" Public Interest Registry, and hosted by the Egyptian National Telecom Regulatory Authority (NTRA) on 8-10 November 2008 in Intercontinental Citystars Hotel, Cairo, Egypt. |
| 26 February 2015 |
Survey of Economic and Social Developments in the Arab Region 2013-2014 |
How severely has the political, security and humanitarian crisis escalated in Iraq, Libya, Palestine and Syria? To what extent does it negatively affect neighboring countries? Are the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) maintaining a stable economic recovery? What are the financing gaps in the region? And what role does the regional economic integration occupy in the Arab region? |
| 21 December 2020 |
Launch of ESCWA Climate-SDGs debt swap initiative |
Beirut, 18 December 2020 (ESCWA)--The years since the global economic downturn in 2008 have seen an increase in public debt in several major economies around the world; a trend more worrying for the low and middle-income countries of the Arab region. |
| 14 January 2021 |
Training on negotiation skills to better manage transboundary water |
Beirut, 12 January 2021 (ESCWA)--To promote an integrated and sustainable management of shared water resources, ESCWA held an 8-session virtual training on “Building negotiation skills for cooperation in managing transboundary water” targeting young negotiators from Arab States. |
| 26 July 2016 |
ESCWA Assistance for the Jordanian National Statistical Strategy |
ESCWA, through an advisory mission, is taking part this week in reviewing the National Statistical Strategy of Jordan, in response to a request by the Department of Statistics (DOS) and in cooperation with the Partnership in Statistics for Development in the 21st Century (Paris 21). |