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| 11 December 2014 |
UNESCWA Ministerial Session Kicks Off Under Auspices of Lebanese House Speaker |
Lebanese House Speaker Nabih Berri today praised the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UNESCWA), Ms. Mervat Tallawy, for having provided her effort in promoting regional integration and helping consolidate stability in Lebanon through continued support by UNESCWA. He also pointed out that Tallawy was the first Executive Secretary of UNESCWA who headed to South Lebanon with a field project aimed at promoting Technology and who provided efforts in Lebanon receiving the UN reconstruction award in 2004. |
| 8 January 2020 |
Visual arts competition on sustainable development in the Arab region |
The Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) is organizing a visual arts competition on sustainable development in the Arab region, to encourage artists and photographers from the region to portray the reality of sustainable development in Arab countries through photographs, videos or infographics/animation. ESCWA is organizing the competition in collaboration with the United Nations Information Centre in Beirut. |
| 11 December 2014 |
UN-ESCWA Continues to Hold National Conferences on Social Policy in the Arab Countries |
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| 11 December 2014 |
The Millennium Development Goals in the Arab Region 2007: A Youth Lens |
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| 29 August 2017 |
ES Statement to the Economic and Social Council of the League of Arab States |
Statement by Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, Executive Secretary of ESCWA to the Economic and Social Council of the League of Arab States |
| 24 February 2016 |
Arab Dialogue on Internet Governance (ArabDIG) |
The Arab Dialogue on Internet Governance (ArabDIG) is an ESCWA-LAS initiative that resulted in 2010 with the Regional Roadmap on Internet Governance and the Arab IGF process in 2012, and the launch of the AIGF2020 initiative in 2015 for the development of the Arab IGF. |
| 18 November 2019 |
Arab countries are caught in an inequality trap |
Conventional wisdom, based mainly on surveyed household income distribution statistics, suggests that inequality is generally low in Arab countries. At the same time, little attention has been devoted to social inequalities, whether in terms of outcomes or opportunities. This column introduces a forthcoming report, which offers a different narrative: based on the largest research project on the subject to date and covering 12 Arab countries, the authors argue that the region is caught in an inequality trap. |
| 8 April 2016 |
SIDA Project |
Within the framework of the Regional Initiative for the Assessment of the Impact of Climate Change on Water Resources and Socio-Economic Vulnerability in the Arab Region (RICCAR), the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) is supporting a three-year multi-institutional collaborative project on the same topic. The SIDA-ESCWA Project is a central component of the Regional Initiative, which has been adopted as an inter-agency initiative by United Nations and League of Arab States organizations that is reported upon to the Arab Ministerial Water Council. |
| 11 December 2014 |
Oman to host Two Major UN-ESCWA Events |
Within the framework of the Oman Water Week organized by UN-ESCWA (United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia) and the Ministry of Regional Municipalities, Environment and Water Resources, Muscat will host two major events, namely: the Expert Group Meeting (EGM) on National Institutional Reforms for the Implementation of Integrated Water Resources Management (18-20 March 2007) and the Seventh Session of the UN-ESCWA Committee on Water Resources (20-22 March 2007) at the Muscat Holiday Hotel. |
| 1 April 2015 |
Arab High Level Conference on Beijing+20 Kicks Off |
The Arab High Level Conference on Beijing+20, entitled “Towards Justice and Equality for Women in the Arab Region”, opened this morning in the Egyptian capital Cairo, and will continue until tomorrow Tuesday 3 February, in Sofitel Hotel, El-Gezirah. |