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1 December 2016	New Thinking for Gender Justice in the Arab Region	Article appeared as an Arabic OpEd by ESCWA Centre for Women Director Mehrinaz Al Awady.
1 December 2016	Justice and Freedom for Real Human Development	Article appeared as an OpEd in Arabic by Khalid abu Ismail, Chief of ESCWA Economic Development and Poverty Section (EDPS).
1 December 2016	Conflict, Gender and Climate Change in the Arab Region	By Pedro Muñoz Alonso* Gender equality, or the lack of it, is not a stand-alone issue. Social, economic and environmental factors all affect the degree of balance between men and women. That is especially so in the Arab region, ravaged by war and wracked by climate change. The question is, how do those factors interact with gender concerns?
2 December 2016	16th Meeting of Industrial Research Centres’ Coordination Committee in Arab States	ESCWA Technology Centre (ETC) hosted the sixteenth meeting of the “Industrial Research Centres’ Coordination Committee in Arab States” simultaneously with ESCWA Technical Committee’s meeting, in cooperation with the Arab Industrial Development and Mining Organisation (AIDMO). The meeting aimed to overcome the hurdles facing technology transfer and development, and to raise awareness on the significance of industrial research in order to achieve an advanced Arab industry.
2 December 2016	Random Solutions for our Social Issues	Article appeared as an OpEd in Arabic by Director of the ESCWA Centre for Women, Mehrinaz Elawady
2 December 2016	Palestinian Efforts and Achievements in the Climate Change Combat	“The international community should not only support Palestine in meeting its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) commitments, but must also commit to supporting the Palestinian people in their struggle for their inalienable rights. The Palestinians, deserve, like everyone else, to live in dignity and peace. They deserve to be free in their own state. And it is our moral duty to help them achieve that noble goal. For as Martin Luther King said 'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere'.”
4 December 2016	Qatar Hosts ESCWA 29th Ministerial Council	Ministers and high-level officials representing the member countries of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) will gather on 13-15 December 2016 at the Sheraton Grand Hotel in Doha, Qatar, to participate in the ESCWA 29th Ministerial Session.
5 December 2016	Statistician, P3
5 December 2016	Palestine Day in Beirut	“Wherever they may be, Palestinians have suffered from the discriminatory policies pursued by successive Israeli Governments. Attempts by one ethnic or religious group to dominate another are inherently no different from the apartheid regime that the world thought had been eradicated in South Africa in the 1990s.” United Nations Undersecretary-General and ESCWA Executive Secretary Rima Khalaf said.
6 December 2016	Economic Affairs Officer, P4

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