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26 June 2020	Beijing +15	The fifteenth anniversary of the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action was marked in a commemorative meeting during the fifty-fourth session of the Committee on Women which took place in New York from 1 to 12 March 2010 and brought together government officials and representatives of civil society, the media and the private sector to assess what was achieved since the Beijing Conference in 1995, share experiences and good practices and discuss priority actions to deal with persistent obstacles and new challenges.
11 December 2014	UN-ESCWA Continues to Hold National Conferences on Social Policy in the Arab Countries
9 July 2018	Violence in the Name of Beauty by Mehrinaz El Awady*	Sitting in a beauty salon in one of the elite areas in Beirut, I heard the continuous, terrified screams of a young girl. I looked around at the other patrons and could see that they heard it as well. The terrible screaming and desperate pleading continued, and soon everyone sitting there had risen to their feet in concern, asking about the source of these screams. It sounded like the girl was being raped, or horribly abused. She was begging an unknown person to please stop what was being done to her. We all felt very alarmed.
11 December 2014	UN-ESCWA Technical Committee on Liberalization of Foreign Trade and Economic Globalization
11 December 2014	ESCWA Marks International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People	ESCWA marked on Monday 29 November the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People at the UN House in Beirut. The event was organized in cooperation with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
4 March 2021	Capacity-Building Workshop of rural women on entrepreneurship in the agricultural sector	Within the framework of the “Regional Initiative for Promoting Small-Scale Renewable Energy Applications in Rural Areas of the Arab Region (REGEND)” project, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), in partnership with the General Commission for Regional Development (CGDR) and the National Agency for Energy Conservation (ANME) in Tunisia, is organizing a “capacity-building workshop of rural women on entrepreneurship in the agricultural sector”. This workshop aims to build/enhance the knowledge and the practical capacities of a group of rural women in the region of Chorbane (Governorate of Mahdia, Republic of Tunisia) in the field of entrepreneurship in the agricultural sector by raising their awareness/knowledge in creating their agricultural projects that generate income, and in financing agricultural investments by taking advantages of grants, privileges, and fundings provided by the State, agricultural development banks, and micro-finance institutions, and other financing mechanisms designated for the development of the agricultural sector. The workshop also aims to provide the participants with the necessary skills to create innovative agricultural projects according to the sustainable development approach – especially with regard to the Water-Energy-Food Nexus –, prepare their business plans, finance and manage them, by adopting modern methods of training that integrate theoretical (through presentations) and practical (through analysis of case studies) dimensions together.
2 November 2017	Integration of Social Justice Principles into Policy-Making	A crowd of Arab ministers and experts have agreed on the importance of ESCWA continuing to increase its technical support to Member States to implement the social dimension of the 2030 Agenda based on the approaches developed to serve the complementary nature of the Agenda. It was also agreed to implement training workshops for Member States on the use of the handbook prepared by the Secretariat of ESCWA to integrate the principles of social justice into policy-making, including social protection policies.
10 December 2016	Justice for the Palestinian People on Agenda of 29th ESCWA Ministerial Council	“Justice for the Palestinian people: fifty years of Israeli occupation” is among the salient issues on the agenda of the ESCWA 29th Ministerial Session, hosted by Qatar on 13-15 December 2016, at the Sheraton Grand, Doha. The Session tackles the Palestinian issue from three angles: The question of apartheid; Premises and approach for calculating the cumulative cost of the occupation; and a proposal for a Communication strategy to support the Palestinian people. Apartheid
2 February 2018	New study highlights prospects for enhancing food security in the Arab region	A new study on prospects for enhancing food security in the Arab region was launched today at the UN House in Beirut, providing projections on how the food and agriculture situation could look in 2030 based on current trends.
1 February 2018	New study highlights prospects for enhancing food security in the Arab region	A new study on prospects for enhancing food security in the Arab region was launched today at the UN House in Beirut, providing projections on how the food and agriculture situation could look in 2030 based on current trends.

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