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| 10 December 2016 |
Conclusion of this Year’s 16 days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence Campaign |
ESCWA, in partnership with the Institute for Women's Studies in the Arab World (IWSAW) at the Lebanese American University, ABAAD Resource Centre for Gender Equality and UN-Women Regional Office for Arab States, organized a series of activities and events to commemorate the 16 days of activism against Gender-Based Violence for the year 2016. |
| 16 March 2016 |
E-forum on Media and Development |
The Social Development Division at ESCWA has conducted in the period of four months in 2010 three online discussion forums on the following thematic areas: (a) Government -civil-society participation in public policy processes including social policies (1 July to 30 August 2010); (b) Media and Development (1 August to 30 September 2010); and (c) Social Integration towards achieving participation (1 September to 30 October 2010). |
| 21 April 2015 |
ESCWA Sees Knowledge, Professional Challenge in Arab Spring Commission Launches Millennium Goals Report in Time of Transition |
Beirut, 21 February 2012 (UN Information Services) — Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) today said the Arab Spring is a knowledge and professional challenge for United Nations agencies which these organizations do not shun, and have rather begun to reconsider the development paradigm itself building on lessons from this experience. |
| 11 December 2014 |
ESCWA Sees Knowledge, Professional Challenge in Arab Spring Commission Launches Millennium Goals Report in Time of Transition |
Beirut, 21 February 2012 (UN Information Services) — Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) today said the Arab Spring is a knowledge and professional challenge for United Nations agencies which these organizations do not shun, and have rather begun to reconsider the development paradigm itself building on lessons from this experience. |
| 30 March 2017 |
Arab Forum for Sustainable Development, 2017 |
The 2017 Arab multi-stakeholder Forum for Sustainable Development will discuss the 2030 Agenda and the theme of eradicating poverty and promoting prosperity. |
| 5 December 2014 |
Developing the ICT Sector in the ESCWA Region |
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| 9 October 2018 |
ESCWA Water Development Report 7: Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction in the Arab Region |
The seventh issue of ESCWA Water Development Report focuses on bridging the gap between climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction communities within the context of water scarcity in the Arab region at large. |
| 2 December 2020 |
Online advocacy campaign for the International Day of Persons with Disabilities #InclusionWorks |
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| 11 December 2014 |
ESCWA Launches the Fifth Meeting of its Technical Committee |
ESCWA Secretariat today opened the fifth meeting of its technical committee at the UN House in Beirut. Statements were delivered by UN Undersecretary-General and ESCWA Executive Secretary Rima Khalaf, and the Chairman of the fifth session of the technical committee, Secretary-General of the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Saleh Al-Kharabsheh. |
| 30 October 2019 |
Tracking Food Security in the Arab Region |
This document is an extended summary of a publication on Tracking Food Security in the Arab Region using a Monitoring Framework developed by ESCWA in collaboration with member countries, AOAD and FAO and supported by Sida. It lays out the framework and its development and highlights that high- and middle-income Arab countries are concerned with overnutrition and low-income countries with undernutrition while hotspot areas needing immediate action include yields, food import dependency, prevalence of anemia among women and political instability. |