Background and Purpose

Beirut, 28 September 2011 (UN Information Service) — ESCWA today opened a conference on “The Role of Green Industries in Promoting Socio-Economic Development in the Arab Countries” at the UN House in Beirut. The conference is held under the patronage of Lebanese Minister of Industry Freije Sabounjian, and is organized in cooperation with the Arab Industrial Development and Mining Organization (AIDMO).

Beirut, 06 March 2017 (Communication and Information Unit) – As the global community prepares to celebrate International Women’s Day on 8 March, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UN-ESCWA) on Tuesday urged Arab countries to make women’s rights and their protection from discrimination “a reality.”
 

Sunday, 15 January 2012 (United Nation Information Service) - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called on those who believe in a future of freedom and dignity to come together and help people of the region and their leaders to write the next chapters. He said that from the very beginning of these revolutions, from Tunisia through Egypt and beyond, he has called on leaders to listen to their people, a call that some heeded and benefitted while others did not, and today are facing the storm. "I say again to President Assad of Syria: Stop the violence. Stop killing your own people.