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| 3 December 2019 |
ESCWA and partners highlight achievements of food and water security initiative |
Beirut-Amman, 2 December 2019 (ESCWA)--ESCWA held on 27 and 28 November a regional meeting on Promoting Food and Water Security in the Arab Region to discuss challenges and opportunities in that area and highlight the major achievements of the related regional initiative since its launch in 2015. |
| 11 December 2014 |
Global Trade Facilitation Conference 18-19 November 2013 UN Regional Commissions join forces for global trade facilitation and paperless trade |
The Global Trade Facilitation Conference 2013, organized by the five UN Regional Commissions just concluded in Bangkok, Thailand, calling on all countries to continue their efforts to cut red tape and simplify trade procedures in order to achieve more sustainable and inclusive development. The conference was organized during the Third Asia-Pacific Trade and Investment Week held by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and is part of the ‘Joint UN Regional Commissions Approach to Trade Facilitation’. |
| 17 September 2018 |
Spotlight on the Digital Arabic Content industry as ESCWA participates in conference in Damascus |
The Digital Arabic Content Industry (DAC) is significantly contributing to the development of a comprehensive information society for all, helping to improve the knowledge-based economy and creating new jobs in different vital areas as well as preserving identity, language, cultural and civilizational heritage in this digital age. |
| 6 April 2020 |
Regional launch of the ‘2019 Financing for Sustainable Development Report’ Arab world needs 3.6 trillion USD to fund Agenda 2030 |
Beirut, 10 April 2019 (ESCWA)--Recent reports affirm that 3.6 trillion US dollars (USD) are needed to fund the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in the Arab world. |
| 11 December 2014 |
Amman Hosts Seventh Meeting of ESCWA Technical Committee |
The Jordanian capital Amman hosted the Seventh Meeting of the ESCWA Technical Committee on 18 and 19 March 2013, in the ESCWA Technology Center in the Royal Scientific Society. During the opening of the meeting, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and ESCWA Executive Secretary Rima Khalaf said that in the coming period, ESCWA will expand its activities that support the resolutions of the Third Arab Economic, Social and Development Summit held in Riyadh last January, which are concerned with Arab regional integration. |
| 11 December 2014 |
Non-Communicable Diseases and Injuries |
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| 29 September 2020 |
Launch of UN 2020 e-Government Survey in Arabic |
The Arabic version of the UN 2020 e-Government Survey was launched on 23 September 2020 by ESCWA, UNDESA and the UAE TRA. |
| 8 December 2016 |
1st Arab Leadership Dialogue on Science Advice to Governments |
The UN- ESCWA Technology Center (ETC) and the Royal Scientific Society of Jordan (RSS) in partnership with the International Network for Government Science Advice (INGSA), and CRDF Global will organize the 1st Arab Leadership Dialogue on Science Advice to Governments that will take place in Jordan (Dead Sea) on December 13-14, under the patronage of HRH Princess Sumaya bint El Hassan, President of the Royal Scientific Society and President of the Board of Governors of the UN-ETC. |
| 11 December 2014 |
Lions Honors the United Nations |
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| 11 December 2014 |
ESCWA a Peace Platform for Iraq, Lebanon Children |
"You, senior officials, owe it to us to remember that we are the future of nations and that to the extent you care for us you care for the future of our nations. What you sow in us today you shall reap in our country tomorrow." That was the message Iraqi and Lebanese children asked ESCWA and its Executive Secretary Rima Khalaf to relay to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the world community. |