The project is of great benefit to secondary school and university instructors and students, and promotes joint cooperation between ESCWA, Rotary clubs in Lebanon, the Lebanese Ministry of Education and Higher Education and the Social Sciences Institute of the Lebanese University.

It is the Arab Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Report 2011, which was launched at the UN House on 10 October 2013 in the presence of Arab and foreign diplomatic delegates, educational personalities as well as Rotary members.

Beirut-Amman, 27 November 2019 (ESCWA)--Today, the ninth session of the Committee on Women of ESCWA concluded with a series of recommendations on the advancement of women’s rights, with a focus on the pathways that Arab countries took to implement the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 25 years after its adoption.
 

Within the framework of the “Regional Initiative for Promoting Small-Scale Renewable Energy Applications in Rural Areas of the Arab Region (REGEND)” project, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), in partnership with the General Commission for Regional Development (CGDR) and the National Agency for Energy Conservation (ANME) in Tunisia, is organizing a capacity-building workshop on “Distillation and valorization of materials extracted from medicinal and aromatic plants”.
 
This workshop aims to build the knowledge, scientific and technical capacities of rural women in the region of Chorbane, (Governorate of Mahdia) Republic of Tunisia – in particular, those belonging to "Al-Amal" Agricultural Development Group for Rural Women – on the valorization of aromatic and medicinal plants in the region and their exploitation within income-generating activities’ context through the extraction of essential oils and manufacture of cosmetics, as well as providing them with the necessary practical skills, encouraging them to invest and develop entrepreneurship, motivate them to organize within base-structures under the social and solidarity economy’ framework, and also to build their capacities on manufacturing and packaging the various products extracted from aromatic and medicinal plants to better promote them within the region, regionally and nationally, through a simplified scientific and distinctive approach integrating lectures, exercises, and practical training.

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. The path of repression is a dead end," he demanded.