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| 30 October 2018 |
Population and Development Report Issue No. 8: Prospects of Ageing with Dignity in the Arab Region |
The report explores the prospects of ageing with dignity in the Arab region, affirms the principle of “leaving no one behind” and supports the protection of the human rights, wellbeing and development of older persons. |
| 4 February 2020 |
Climate Finance in the Arab Region: Technical Report |
This report presents climate finance flows to the Arab region, evaluates access to existing sources, and explores instruments to attract additional finance. |
| 11 December 2014 |
Executive Secretary Launches Report on Gender in the Millennium Development Goals |
On the occasion of the 12th Regional Coordination Mechanism Meeting (RCM), UN-ESCWA Executive Secretary, Bader Omar AlDafa, launched on Sunday 14 September a report on "Gender in the Millennium Development Goals: Information guide for Arab Millennium Development Goals reports" at the UN House, Beirut in the presence of representatives of UN regional organizations and media institutions.
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| 10 June 2020 |
Arab Sustainable Development Report 2020 |
The Arab Sustainable Development Report 2020 (ASDR 2020) charts the regional trajectory for achieving the 2030 Agenda. It analyzes where the region stands on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It offers a quantitative and qualitative analysis of each SDG in relation to the global indicator framework adopted by the General Assembly in 2017. |
| 1 July 2020 |
Arab Digital Development Report 2019: Towards Empowering People and Ensuring Inclusiveness |
The report assesses progress in digital development in the Arab region, with analysis of the efforts made and challenges faced. Linkages to development focus on empowerment and inclusion. |
| 5 December 2014 |
Progress in Achievement of the Millennium Development Goals in the ESCWA Region: A Gender Lens |
Since their adoption in 2000, gender experts criticized the MDG for their failure to adequately include a gender component in their goals, targets and indicators. In addition to reducing gender equality to one goal, the target of goal 3 on promoting gender equality and empowering women, is limited to eliminating gender disparity in primary education, preferably by 2005, and all levels of education by 2015. |
| 30 November 2019 |
Meeting of the National Task force for reviewing the energy situation of the building sector in Jordan |
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| 15 November 2017 |
ESCWA offsets all of its emissions for the first time, becoming Climate Neutral |
According to the latest edition of Greening the Blue, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) has joined a number of UN entities in achieving climate neutrality for 2016. |
| 9 October 2018 |
ESCWA Water Development Report 7: Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction in the Arab Region |
The seventh issue of ESCWA Water Development Report focuses on bridging the gap between climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction communities within the context of water scarcity in the Arab region at large. |
| 25 July 2018 |
Achieving peace requires adherence to international law and no impunity |
Beirut, 25 July 2018 (Communication and Information Unit)-- In its periodic report on the Israeli occupation in Palestine and the Golan, the United Nations described Israeli practices and policies in the Arab territories occupied since 1967 as discriminatory and violating international law. It considered that some of those practices and policies may amount to war crimes according to the Fourth Geneva Convention. |