ESCWA Executive Secretary Rima Khalaf today issued a statement on the passing of veteran diplomat, writer and scholar Clovis Maksoud. 

United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of UN-ESCWA (the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia), Mr. Bader Omar Aldafa, heads to the Qatari capital, Doha, today, to partake in the Annual Arab Banking Conference for 2007, organized by the Union of Arab Banks (UAB), in cooperation with the Qatar Central Bank and the World Union of Arab Bankers, between 7 and 8 November 2007 in Sheraton Hotel, Doha, and held under the auspices of Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim Bin Jabr Al-Thani, Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Qatar.

On 5 June 2012, ESCWA hosted a lecture on the book “Public Health in the Arab World.”
Invited by ESCWA Staff Council, Mr. Samer Jabbour, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Health Sciences at the American University of Beirut, delivered a lecture on the book, which he edited together with Ms. Rita Giacaman, Professor at the Institute of Community and Public Health at Birzeit University and Mr. Iman Nuwayhid, Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences at the American University of Beirut, and Mr. Marwan Khawaja, ESCWA Chief of Social Statistics Section.