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1 April 2015	Arab High Level Conference on Beijing+20 Kicks Off	The Arab High Level Conference on Beijing+20, entitled “Towards Justice and Equality for Women in the Arab Region”, opened this morning in the Egyptian capital Cairo, and will continue until tomorrow Tuesday 3 February, in Sofitel Hotel, El-Gezirah. Speeches delivered during the opening session were by the League of Arab States Secretary-General Nabil Al Arabi, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and ESCWA Executive Secretary Rima Khalaf, and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of UN Women, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka.
1 April 2021	First ESCWA-LAS Joint Workshop on Developing the Arab Digital Agenda / ICT Strategy A standalone Side-Event in parallel to the 32nd Arab Working Group on the Arab ICT strategy	The Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) and the League of Arab States (LAS) are organizing the First Joint Workshop on Developing the Arab Digital Agenda / ICT Strategy (ADAICTS) as a standalone Side-Event in parallel to the 32^nd Arab Working Group on the Arab ICT strategy. The event is being held within the framework of the strategic cooperation between the two organizations and in the context of the related track of Advancing Digital Cooperation and Development Arab States Action Programme, launched by ESCWA in 2020. The workshop aims to kick-off the process for shaping and developing the ADAICTS as a joint regional public good and to agree on the way forward with prospective partners. The participatory process will lead to the elaboration of the Unified Arab Digital Agenda for the ten coming years, expected to be finalized by the end of 2021, endorsed by the Arab ICT ministers and launched soon after.
12 August 2015	ESCWA at The High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development	The ministerial segment of the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development was held under the auspices of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), during the high-level segment of its 2015 session that took place from 6 to 10 July 2015 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
1 February 2021	Arab Regional Preparations for the 2023 Midterm Comprehensive Review of the Water Action Decade	The aim of this consultative meeting is to draft a collaborative road map for Arab regional preparations leading to the United Nations Conference for the Midterm Comprehensive Review of the Water Action Decade in March 2023. Discussion will include contributions to a midterm regional review report, preparations for the regional preparatory meeting, and the identification of activities that can explicitly support the Water Action Decade in the region.
11 December 2014	UN Deputy Secretary-General Opens 12th Regional Coordination Mechanism Meeting; Says Arab Region Emerging as True Leader in Development	UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro said on Saturday that the Arab region is emerging as a true leader in development – from burgeoning intra-regional investment in infrastructure to energy security. The Arab countries and people are doing more and more to contribute to one another’s’ development. “It is not an exaggeration to say that the Arab Region is one of vast historical and cultural richness. Today this wealth is, in many cases, complemented by economic prosperity,” Migiro said.
26 June 2020	Beijing +10	The Beijing Ten Year Review and Appraisal took place at the United Nations headquarters in New York, from 28 February to 11 March 2005, as part of the Forty-ninth Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) whose programme of work included two main topics:
3 April 2020	Socioeconomic Impact of COVID-19: Policy Briefs	/sites/www.unescwa.org/files/uploads/impact-covid-19-arab-financial-systems-english.pdf A decade marked for accelerated action and delivery towards sustainable development has been disrupted by a global health threat that has severely impacted the Arab region.
11 December 2014	Ninth Session for UN-ESCWA Committee on Transport Opens, Oman Elected as Chairperson, Iraq and Qatar Vice Chairmen and Lebanon Rapporteur	The Lebanese Minister of Transport of Public Works, Mr. Muhammad Safadi, sponsored today the inauguration of the ninth session of the UN-ESCWA Committee on Transport at the Holiday-Inn, Dunes Hotel in Verdun Street, Beirut, in the presence of participating delegations from Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, the Syrian Arab Republic, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen.
16 March 2016	E-forum on Democracy and Participation	Political transitions as a result of popular uprisings in different Arab countries have brought to the fore a number of short term challenges that will have a decisive impact on the long term prospects of these countries and the region.
28 April 2015	The Arab Middle Class Report: a force for change? (by Abdallah Al Dardari and Naren Prasad)	The geopolitical and socioeconomic map of the Arab region is currently facing the most serious existential threat since the creation of independent Arab nation States in the mid-twentieth century. Disillusionment with the prospect of a serious peace process in Palestine; the seizure of vast areas of land in the Arab Mashreq by the Islamic State;

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