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| 27 February 2020 |
ESCWA, UN Women and Save the Children mark International Women’s Day |
What: International Women’s Day organized by the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), UN Women Regional Office for the Arab States, and Save the Children International. |
| 15 March 2016 |
Training of Trainers in Participatory Social Development |
Two back-to-back workshops on "Training of Trainers in Social Participatory Development" were held in Beirut from 27 September to 1 October 2010, in close coordination with the League of Arab States (LAS), the UN Development Programme in Lebanon (UNDP), Oxfam-GB, and the Arab Centre for the Development of the Rule of Law and Integrity (ACRLI). |
| 26 February 2015 |
Training workshop on demographic methods for assessing the completeness of death registration |
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| 5 December 2014 |
Expert Group Meeting on Measurement Issues in Labour Statistics |
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| 24 November 2018 |
Illicit Financial Flows in the Arab Region |
Illicit financial flows (IFFs) are constantly evolving outpacing detection at every corner. IFFs undermine the rule of law, distort macro-economic stability, and raise severe security complications for the Arab region. These flows constitute substantial leakages to domestic public revenues that could have otherwise been harnessed to finance national and regional efforts devoted to achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. |
| 15 August 2016 |
Developing strong and inclusive institutional frameworks for the CRPD: ESCWA side event during the 9th session of the Conference of States Parties COSP9 |
This side event, organized during the 9th session of the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, focused on national institutional frameworks for implementing and monitoring the Convention. |
| 5 December 2014 |
Settlement of Disputes in Bilateral Investment Treaties in Morocco |
In collaboration with the Ministry of Economy and Finance of the Kingdom of Morocco ESCWA held a National Workshop on disputes between States and investors during the period 5-7 June 2013. |
| 18 December 2020 |
Violence against Women and Girls and COVID-19 in the Arab Region |
The policy brief provides a regional analysis of countries’ response to violence against women during the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic |
| 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. |
| 16 August 2016 |
Conditional Cash Transfer Programmes in the Arab Region |
The international workshop participants discussed conditional cash transfer programmes as a tool to lift people in the Arab region out of poverty. |