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| 16 October 2017 |
8th Session of ESCWA Committee on Women |
A crowd of Arab ministers and experts have agreed on the importance of ESCWA continuing to support National Women’s Machineries in order to estimate the economic cost of violence against women in the Arab region and to implement the Action Plan for Gender Equality in line with the specificities of States. They also stressed the need to continue to support the capacity building of the Arab States to implement the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). |
| 17 October 2017 |
ESCWA in the News 17-25 October 2017 |
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| 17 October 2017 |
The Role of Civil Society in Implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development |
The paper discusses the role of civil society in the Arab region in implementing the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development. Prepared by ESCWA’s Unit on Agenda 2030 and presented as the main paper at the regional conference on the role of civil society in the Arab region in the implementation of Agenda 2030, Doha, Qatar, 20-21 April 2016. |
| 17 October 2017 |
Environmental Dimension of the 2030 Agenda in the Arab Region |
The Arab region suffers from pressing environmental challenges such as water scarcity, desertification, land degradation and reduction in arable land areas, which negatively impact access to food especially in rural and marginalized areas. Since more than a decade, ESCWA works closely in partnership with the League of Arab States (LAS) and UN Environment on sustainable development issues including provision of adequate tools to monitor and assess the environmental dimension of the 2030 Agenda. |
| 18 October 2017 |
International Human Rights Law and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: Social Development Bulletin, Vol 6 No. 3 |
Ostensibly voluntary at first glance, and guided by the conviction that no one should be left behind, there are in fact legal implications involved in the undertaking of Agenda 2030. |
| 18 October 2017 |
Women: Arab Horizon 2030 |
The purpose of this report is to analyze socioeconomic trends with the aim of providing a forward-looking analysis of possible approaches that can enable Arab States of achieving the Sustainable Development goals, particularly goal 5 on gender equality and the empowerment of women. |
| 19 October 2017 |
Programme Assistant, G6 - PPTCS |
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| 19 October 2017 |
Assembly and Binding Equipment Assistant, G4 - ASD/CSS |
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| 19 October 2017 |
Deputy Executive Secretary for Programme, D2 (OES) |
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| 19 October 2017 |
Climate Change-Related Statistics in the Arab Region: A Proposed Set of Indicators |
This report proposes a set of relevant, feasible and consistent climate change-related indicators for compilation by all countries in the region. |