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| 4 April 2018 |
Capacity Building Workshop on Monitoring, Control and Protection of Human Rights including Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights |
The ESCWA Centre for Women and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Regional Office in Beirut are organizing a workshop on monitoring, control and protection of human rights including sexual and reproductive health and rights. This workshop, which will be held from 6-8 May 2018 in Amman – Jordan, targets national human rights institutions and national women machineries in the Middle East and North Africa region, as well as in some countries of the Horn of Africa. |
| 11 December 2014 |
Imagine a Greener, More Sustainable UN |
Speak your mind in pictures! If you have ideas for a more sustainable UN and fancy yourself a photographer, share your pictures with us and be an agent of change. To celebrate the World Environment Day 2011, Greening the Blue – a UN program to make all its agencies climate neutral and green - and the UN Photographic Society have joined forces to launch the first in-house photographic competition that celebrates and inspires efforts to make the UN more sustainable. Visions of a Sustainable UN is the central theme of this photo competition. |
| 5 June 2017 |
Effective National Technology Transfer System in Morocco |
As part of the Development Account project “Establishing National Technology Development and Transfer Systems in Selected Arab Countries”, ESCWA Technology Center (ETC) conducted the second workshop on “Effective National Technology Transfer System in Morocco” in cooperation with its national partner organization in Morocco; National Centre for Scientific Research and Technology (CNRST) on 26 April 2017 in Rabat, Morocco. |
| 20 May 2015 |
Impact of ICT on Community Development in ESCWA Member Countries |
Measuring the multifaceted information society is a very complex task. In the past, measurement approaches were confined to simply aggregating a variety of data on selected information and communications technology (ICT) indicators, adjusting the weight of some factors, and applying statistical tools. Those approaches, however, lacked theory and validation. While measuring the ever-changing ICT landscape might seem to be enough, this study emphasizes that societies are not exclusively driven by technology. |
| 29 May 2017 |
Executive Secretary Discusses with Former Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina Combating Violent Extremism |
“Violent extremism walks in when shared society withdraws,” today said former Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina and member of “Club de Madrid” Zlatko Lagumdzija, who paid a visit to the UN House in Beirut, and met with Under-Secretary-General and ESCWA Executive Secretary Mohamed Ali Alhakim. The meeting was attended by ESCWA Deputy Executive Khawla Mattar and Director of ESCWA Emerging and Conflict-related Issues Division Tarek Alami as well as “Club de Madrid” Senior Program Officer Maram Anbar. |
| 11 December 2014 |
اجتماع خبراء في مجال البرمجيات |
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| 30 March 2017 |
Expert Group Meeting on Advancing Green Technologies through Science-Policy Interface |
This meeting will highlight the role of green technologies in achieving sustainable development in the Arab region through strengthening the Science-Policy Interface. |
| 14 December 2015 |
Urbanization and Sustainable Development in the Arab Region, Social Development Bulletin, Vol. 5, No. 4 |
The bulletin highlights the ongoing regional and global preparations to the Habitat III conference and presents the main targets and objectives of both Habitat III and Goal 11 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). |
| 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. |
| 11 December 2014 |
Delegation to Visit the South Thursday |
UNESCWA Executive Secretary Mervat Tallawy and a number of UN agency representatives will be visiting the South of Lebanon on Thursday 12 October 2006. The delegation will also include representatives from donor organizations such as the Union of Arab Banks as well as a number of UNESCWA senior staff and experts. |