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| 11 December 2014 |
UN-ESCWA High-Level Meeting to Promote Water Supply and Sanitation Policies |
In cooperation with the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) and in partnership with the League of Arab States (LAS), UN-ESCWA is holding a high level meeting to “Promote Water Supply and Sanitation Policies and Related Organizational Reforms in Western Asia”, on 15 June 2008 at the LAS Headquarters, Cairo, Egypt. The meeting will coincide with the second day sessions of the LAS Ministerial Meeting of Arab Ministers responsible for water resources. |
| 14 November 2018 |
Regional workshop on road safety management in the Arab countries |
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Regional workshop on road safety management in the Arab countries How to improve road safety and reduce fatalities? Beirut, Lebanon, 27-28 November 2018 |
| 11 December 2014 |
An Opportunity not to Miss |
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| 11 December 2014 |
Executive Secretary Proposes Steps to Empower Private Sector |
UN-ESCWA Executive Secretary, Bader Omar AlDafa today tackled the participation of the private sector in the regional economies, the solutions to the challenges this sector faces and the role of UN-ESCWA in helping member countries strengthen it. These issues were highlighted in AlDafa's address to the "Arab Economic Integration from the Private Sector's Perspective" forum. |
| 11 December 2014 |
Damascus Hosts the Third Arab Industrial Information and Networking Conference |
United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of UN-ESCWA (Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia), Mr. Bader Aldafa is participating, upon the invitation of the Arab Industrial Development and Mining Organization (AIDMO), in the “Third Arab Industrial Information and Networking Conference”, held from 29 to 31 October 2007, in Damascus, Syrian Arab Republic, under the patronage of Prime Minister Muhammad Naji Al Otri. |
| 11 December 2014 |
Arab Parliamentarians Discuss Discrimination Against Women |
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| 11 December 2014 |
Reviewing Arab Development Patterns, Creating Sustainable Development Bodies Urged |
Cairo, 17 Oct 2011 (UN Information Service) — Officials and experts participating in a meeting of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) called for seizing the opportunity of political and social changes of the Arab Spring to review adopted patterns of development with a view to addressing sustainable development challenges in the Arab region. Participants agreed that failures in achieving development is mainly attributed to developed countries’ evasion of their obligations towards developing ones, as provided for in international conventions. |
| 26 January 2021 |
Training on reporting to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women |
Beirut, 22 January 2021 (ESCWA)--On 16 January, ESCWA and the Arab Women Organization concluded a virtual 5-day training held for North African countries and the Sudan on reporting to the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, an independe |
| 14 May 2020 |
New ESCWA & UAB brief: Major Arab stock markets register value losses of about 25% in the first quarter of 2020 |
Beirut, 14 May 2020--The Arab region is not only struggling with the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact—as deep and devastating as it may be for all aspects of life and all social and economic sectors—it is also facing unprecedented fluctuations in oil prices. |
| 11 December 2014 |
Promising Palestinian Officials Visit ESCWA, Explore its Activities and Policies |
Three Palestinian young officials, Kahrumana Jarrar, Head of Department of UN and International Organizations in the Palestinian Ministry of Planning and Adminastrative Development, Rabii Al-Hantouli, First Secretary of the Permanent Observer Mission of Palestine to the United Nations, and Omar Awadallah, Head of Department of UN and Specialized Agencies in the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, attended the ESCWA 27th Session held on 7-10 May, 2012 at the UN House in Beirut, as part of an annual training programme organized by the Division of Palestinian Rights (DPR) at the United Na |