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| 6 September 2017 |
Executive Secretary Receives Chief Executive Officer of CAUS |
United Nations Under-Secretary-General and ESCWA Executive Secretary Mohamed Ali Alhakim received on Tuesday 05 September 2017 Chief Executive Officer of the Centre for Arab Unity Studies (CAUS) Khair El-Din Haseeb and the Centre’s Director General Luna Abu Swaireh at the UN House in Beirut. Following the meeting Abu Swaireh said discussions focused on partnership between ESCWA and the Centre in the fields of Economy, Development and Research. |
| 6 September 2017 |
Research Assistant, G6 - EDID (TJO) |
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| 6 September 2017 |
Executive Secretary Discusses with Ambassador of Egypt Enhancing Cooperation between Egypt and ESCWA |
Beirut, 6 September 2017 (Communication and Information Unit) -- United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of ESCWA Mohamed Ali Al-Hakim today received Egypt’s Ambassador to Lebanon Nazih al-Najjari at the UN House in Beirut. |
| 7 September 2017 |
Arab Disability Statistics in Numbers 2017 |
The e-publication “Arab Disability Statistics in Numbers 2017” is based on national data, harmonized to the extent possible, to allow for comparable regional data analysis, based on different sources such population censuses, and household surveys for poverty, labor force, health and household budget, cross-cutting in a number of socio-economic areas. |
| 7 September 2017 |
Executive Secretary Discusses with Ambassador of Egypt Enhancing Cooperation between Egypt and ESCWA |
United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of ESCWA Mohamed Ali Al-Hakim received on Wednesday 6 September 2017 Egypt’s Ambassador to Lebanon Nazih al-Najjari at the UN House in Beirut. |
| 9 September 2017 |
Measuring Urban Poverty in the Arab Region: Localizing Global and National strategies, Social Development Bulletin, Vol 6, No. 1 |
This bulletin examines how urban poverty is addressed in the 2030 Agenda and the New Urban Agenda, and sheds light on one urban poverty measurement index. |
| 12 September 2017 |
Committee on Women, 8th Session |
At its eighth session, the Committee on Women aims to discuss the role of institutions in achieving gender equality, highlighting the following areas: Mainstreaming gender in public institutions, the role of institutions in responding to the Plan of Action on Women, Peace and Security in Times of War and in Times of Peace in the Arab Region; and the assessment of the economic cost of violence against women with a view to adopting institutional policies to put an end to this phenomenon. |
| 13 September 2017 |
“Launch of the findings of the first phase of the regional project on estimating the cost of violence against women” |
The ESCWA Centre for Women, in partnership with UN-Women, the Swedish Institute in Alexandria and the Lebanese American University, organized a launch event of the publication on "The Status of Women Report: Violence against Women – What is at Stake?", at the Sursock Museum in Beirut. |
| 13 September 2017 |
Regional consultation meeting on estimating the cost of Violence Against Women |
The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UN-ESCWA), the Arab States Regional Office for the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), and the Swedish Institute in Alexandria held regional consultations on estimating the economic cost of violence against women, on 24 and 25 October 2017, at the Swedish Institute in Alexandria, Arab Republic of Egypt. The regional consultations were organised for Arab National Women Machineries and National Statistics Offices in the Arab region. |
| 13 September 2017 |
Research Assistant, G6 - EDID (TJO) |