ESCWA organizes an expert group meeting tomorrow Wednesday 25 June 2014, on the issue of Women, Peace and Security. Participants will review the findings of the regional study entitled “Identification of legislative gaps for the full implementation of Security Council Resolution 1325 (SCR 1325) in the Arab Region” at the UN-House, Riad Solh Avenue, Beirut. The meeting concludes on 26 June 2014.

HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal today called for policy-makers to consider a broad, inclusive, interdisciplinary and systematic framework to better understand the impact of protracted conflict and violence in the West Asia region, at an expert group meeting organised by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) in partnership with the West Asia-North Africa (WANA) Institute. 

Investing an additional USD 40 billion a year in the forestry sector could halve deforestation rates by 2030, increase tree planting by around 140 percent by 2050, and catalyze the creation of millions of new jobs. Those were among main findings of a report on forests produced by the UN Environment Program (UNEP) and launched today by the UN Communications Group in a press conference in Beirut on the occasion of World Environment Day 2011 (WED).

On the occasion of the 12th Regional Coordination Mechanism Meeting (RCM), UN-ESCWA Executive Secretary, Bader Omar AlDafa, launched on Sunday a report on “Gender in the Millennium Development Goals: Information guide for Arab Millennium Development Goals reports” at the UN House, Beirut in the presence of representatives of UN regional organizations and media institutions.