2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

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	Public Private Partnerships for ports ESCWA is organizing an EGM on Public Private Partnerships (PPP) for ports on 23-24 Nov 2019 in Amman, Jordan. The main objective of this EGM is to...
	Arab Middle Class: Measurement and role in driving change E/ESCWA/EDGD/2014/2 The Arab middle class is an important social group that is relatively little understood despite the fundamental role it has played in shaping the economic and social development outcomes in the... Arabic (6.71 MB) English (5.81 MB)
	Social Justice Matters: A view from the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia E/ESCWA/SDD/2018/TP.6 Achieving social justice and leaving no one behind are urgent priorities in the Arab region. This pamphlet aims to provide general information and raise awareness on social justice and related... Arabic (2.72 MB) English (2.72 MB)
	International Human Rights Law and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: Social Development Bulletin, Vol 6 No. 3 E/ESCWA/SDD/2017/TECHNICAL PAPER.8 The 2030 Development Agenda expresses the commitment of the United Nations to accelerate development efforts and to leave no one behind. Parts of this aspirational agenda are also enshrined in... Arabic (440.19 KB) English (264.76 KB)
	Arab Regional Conference on Population and Development: Five Years after the 2013 Cairo Declaration ...
	Guidelines to Estimate the Economic Cost of Domestic Violence in the Arab region E/ESCWA/ECW/2019/TP.3 These guidelines are intended for government officials, programme managers and researchers looking to estimate the costs of domestic violence in the Arab region. They... Arabic (3.12 MB) English (2.44 MB)
	Arab Society: A Compendium of Demographic and Social Statistics, No. 13 E/ESCWA/SD/2017/5 Arab Society: A Compendium of Social Statistics, Issue No. 13 is the latest in a series of biennial compendiums of the Statistics Division of the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia... Arabic (4.25 MB) English (1.77 MB)
	Women in the Judiciary in the Arab States: Removing Barriers, Increasing Numbers E/ESCWA/ECW/2019/2 Women’s right to participate fully and equally in all aspects of public life, including the judiciary, is a fundamental human right. There is a large body of evidence that women’s presence in the... Arabic (2.06 MB) English (2.06 MB)
	Women in the Judiciary in the State of Palestine E/ESCWA/ECW/2018/TP.1 The presence of women in the judiciary in the State of Palestine has increased over the past years, with women now comprising almost 18 per cent of Palestinian judges. The State of Palestine is... Arabic (1.12 MB) English (1.12 MB)
	Women in the Judiciary: A Stepping Stone towards Gender Justice E/ESCWA/ECW/2018/BRIEF.1 The limited presence of women in the judicial branches of Arab States is attracting increasing attention as an obstacle to the development of representative institutions and the achievement of... Arabic (709.67 KB) English (399.57 KB)
	Women, Peace and Security: The Role of Institutions in Times of Peace and War in the Arab Region E/ESCWA/ECW/2017/1 The present publication explores the women, peace and security agenda, and how the Arab region is responding to it. It discusses the roles of national women’s machineries, national human rights... Arabic (1.66 MB) English (6.83 MB)
	Equality in the New Global Agenda: Integrating a Gender Perspective in the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goals 1 and 2 in the Arab Region E/ESCWA/SDD/2016/TECHNICAL PAPER.2 A close analysis of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by the international community in September 2015, reveals that some gender issues should be further emphasized in the... Arabic (668.98 KB) English (548.11 KB)
	Financing Sustainable Development ~ Illicit Financial Flows and Trade Misinvoicing Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs) constitute major disablers to sustainable development. As such, the Addis Ababa Action Agenda entailed a premeditated commitment...
	Competition as a Means for Private Sector Development This high-level conference aims at...
	Competition and Regulation in the Arab Region, Economic Governance Series 2015 E/ESCWA/EDID/2015/5 Competition policy and regulation are essential components of economic systems at the national, regional and global levels. In Arab countries, however, heavily concentrated and inefficient... Arabic (4.25 MB) English (4.25 MB)
	Arab Region Parliamentary Forum on the 2030 Agenda The 2030 Agenda for...
	Arab Region Parliamentary Forum on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development *Empowering people and ensuring inclusiveness and equality* Beirut, Lebanon, 24-25 January...
	Second Arab High-level Forum on WSIS and 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development ESCWA is organizing the Second Arab High-level Forum (AHLF) on WSIS and 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Beirut, from 19 to 21 March 2019, at the UN-House in...
	Arab High-Level Forum on Sustainable Development The year 2014 is pivotal for development. While efforts at the global, regional and national levels intensify to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015, endeavors continue to...
	Arab High-level Forum on WSIS and 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development ESCWA is organizing the Arab High-level Forum on WSIS and 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in partnership with the Lebanese Ministry of...