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| 25 March 2019 |
Intern - Programme Management - OES |
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| 25 March 2019 |
Near East and North Africa Land and Water Days 2019 |
The NENA LWD is organized by FAO-RNE and will focus on reviewing the progress made in addressing water scarcity in the region, fostering exchange of knowledge and experience among countries and partners and charting the way forward taking into account the lessons learned, the new challenges to and opportunities for sustainable development. The LWDs will consist of two segments: The technical and high level expert meeting from 31 March-3 April and the Ministerial Meeting on 4 April led by the League of Arab States. |
| 26 March 2019 |
Participatory Workshop on the Political Participation of Lebanese Women |
ESCWA Centre for Women (ECW), in collaboration with the National Commission for Lebanese Women (NCLW), organized a consultative participatory workshop on Women’s Political Participation and Representation in Lebanon, on 4 April 2019 at the United House in Beirut.
The workshop brought together male and female representatives of the Lebanese political parties as well as independent political activists, in addition to members of NCLW. |
| 26 March 2019 |
Technology as a tool to make cities safe and combat violence against women |
The Arab region is witnessing an unprecedented urbanization boom accompanied by diverse challenges including sexual violence and harassment of women in public spaces. |
| 26 March 2019 |
World Water Day 2019 |
ESCWA organized a celebration to commemorate the World Water Day: Leave no one Behind, on Friday 22 March 2019 as part of the regional consultation meeting on climate change for 2019 AFSD and HLPF that was convened at the UN-House Beirut from 21 to 22 March 2019. |
| 26 March 2019 |
West Asia Regional Preparatory Meeting for the Fourteenth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice |
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| 27 March 2019 |
Regional commission marks World Water Day, says millions of Arabs still lack basic water services |
Beirut, 22 March 2019 (ESCWA)--While 51 million people from the Arab region still lacked basic water drinking services, 73% of whom lived in rural areas. This is among the conclusions of the new version of ‘2019 United Nations World Water Development Report” (WWDR 2019) launched today at the regional level by the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) as it marked World Water Day in its Beirut headquarters. |
| 27 March 2019 |
Regional commission marks World Water Day, says millions of Arabs still lack basic water services |
Beirut, 22 March 2019 (ESCWA)--While 51 million people from the Arab region still lacked basic water drinking services, 73% of them lived in rural areas. This is among the conclusions of the new version of ‘2019 United Nations World Water Development Report” (WWDR 2019) launched today at the regional level by the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) as it marked World Water Day in its Beirut headquarters. |
| 28 March 2019 |
Making disability visible in statistics - Side Event at the 50th Statistical Commission |
The side-event focus on means of bridging the gap between policy-makers, civil society and statisticians, which constitutes a major obstacle and a hindrance to making progress on development of policies based on evidence and thus improving the lives of persons with disabilities. It will include presentation of a generic SDG-CRPD Framework of around 100 standard indicators that links CRPD articles to SDG policy areas, including SDG indicators that countries can disaggregate by disability status. |
| 29 March 2019 |
SDG Monitor |
Messages (similar to https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/) |