UN Undersecretary-General and ESCWA Executive Secretary Rima Khalaf holds a press conference at 5:00 PM today Friday 17 March 2017 at the Lebanese Press Syndicate, Raouche, Beirut. The press conference is related to the recently-issued report “Israeli Practices towards the Palestinian People and the Question of Apartheid.”

The ESCWA Information and Communication Unit (ECIU) invites media institutions and representatives to cover the press conference.
 

On the occasion of International Women’s Day marked by ESCWA on 6 March 2017, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and ESCWA Executive Secretary Rima Khalaf chose hope in spite of the brutish injustice in the region, or maybe because of it, as she noted.
 

Beirut, 3 April 2017 (Communication and Information Unit) – United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), represented by its Acting Executive Secretary Khawla Mattar, is taking part in the meetings and technical workshops on the sidelines of the international conference "Supporting the Future of Syria and the Region" held in Brussels, Belgium, Wednesday 5 April 2017.

“Over 80% of the world’s wastewater is released to environment without treatment,” the UN World Water Development Report 2017 reads. On this year’s World Water Day themed around “Why Waste Water,” ESCWA hosted on 22 March 2017 a ceremony in Amman under the auspices of Jordanian Minister of Water and Irrigation Hazim El Naser, in collaboration with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the Arab Countries Water Utilities Association (ACWUA) and the Swedish government.