Beirut, 09 November 2019 (ESCWA)—The United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), Ms. Rola Dashti, was nominated for this year’s UN Secretary-General (UNSG) Award for “Staff Engagement”.
 

Conventional wisdom, based mainly on surveyed household income distribution statistics, suggests that inequality is generally low in Arab countries. At the same time, little attention has been devoted to social inequalities, whether in terms of outcomes or opportunities. This column introduces a forthcoming report, which offers a different narrative: based on the largest research project on the subject to date and covering 12 Arab countries, the authors argue that the region is caught in an inequality trap.

Amman, 28 November 2019 (ESCWA, UN-Women)--Senior officials representing Arab States met to agree on priorities for the advancement of gender equality and women’s empowerment, in the light of the findings of the regional review of progress made in the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (BPfA) 25 years after their adoption. As an outcome of the conference, member States adopted an Arab declaration which reaffirms the pr

Cairo, Egypt, 3 December 2019 - Under the auspices of the Working Group on International Migration in the Arab Region, the co-chairs of the Working Group - the League of Arab States (LAS), and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for West Asia (ESCWA), and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Regional Office for the Middle East and North Africa organized a Regional Conference on the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration: Implementation and Policy Implications for the Arab region.