2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

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	Second Arab High-level Forum on WSIS and 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development ESCWA organized 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 Beirut, Lebanon, in partnership...
	Arab Region Parliamentary Forum on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development *Empowering people and ensuring inclusiveness and equality* Beirut, Lebanon, 24-25 January...
	Arab Region Parliamentary Forum on the 2030 Agenda The 2030 Agenda for...
	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)
	Competition as a Means for Private Sector Development This high-level conference aims at...
	Intellectual Property for Fostering Innovation in the Arab World E/ESCWA/TDD/2019/5 Only few Arab countries have a national intellectual property strategy with measures that encourage and facilitate the effective development, management, and protection of intellectual... Arabic (9.19 MB) English (9.17 MB)
	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...
	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)
	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)
	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 (3.4 MB) English (2.06 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 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)
	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)
	Arab Society: Demographic and Social trends Issue No. 14 E/ESCWA/SD/2019/5 Arab Society: A Compendium of Demographic and Social Statistics, Issue No. 14 is the latest in a series of biennial compendia of the Statistics Division of the Economic and Social Commission... Arabic (10.49 MB) English (5.47 MB)
	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 Regional Conference on Population and Development: Five Years after the 2013 Cairo Declaration ...
	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)
	Gender Justice & Equality before the law: Analysis of Progress and Challenges in the Arab States Region The Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), and the United... Arabic (4.67 MB) English (4.31 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)
	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)