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UN regional commissions launch policy brief on transforming food systems 23 September, 2021 New York, 23 September 2021 - The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the world’s fragilities, including the...

Executive Summary Ensuring food security for all is an ambitious and complex endeavour that requires considering its four dimensions: food availability, access, utilization and stability. These were...

ESCWA warns: Three-quarters of Lebanon’s residents plunge into poverty Beirut, 3 September 2021-- Poverty in Lebanon has drastically increased over the past year, now affecting about 74% of the total...

This paper proposes a domestic conflict index that can be used by policy makers and other relevant stakeholders to assess a given country’s level of internal conflict. The index can be used to...

E/ESCWA/CL3.SEP/2021/TP.7 Introduction Studying inequality and poverty in the Arab region is a challenging task. As pointed out in Atamanov and others (2020), the Arab region has insufficient...

1. Introduction and Objectives The outbreak of devastating conflicts around the Arab world in the aftermath of the Arab Spring has been a great concern for all political actors and international...

Introduction Migrants and refugees are among the social groups most impacted by the COVID-19 crisis, and are suffering disproportionately from its social and economic consequences. They are at the...

Baghdad and Beirut, 1 November 2020--Women's participation in political processes in Iraq is hampered by many obstacles, despite Iraqi women’s determination to engage in the public sphere. In 2020,...

Executive Summary Introduction The participation of women in political and electoral processes in Iraq has been hampered by numerous factors, despite Iraqi women’s determination to engage in the...

On August 4 2020, the devastating Beirut explosion shook the whole city to its core, taking the lives of 191 persons (120 males, 58 females, and 13 unspecified), wounding at least 6,500, and leaving...

Losses exceeding $442 billion and millions in need of humanitarian assistance: the catastrophic repercussions of 8 years of war in Syria Beirut, 23 September 2020 By the end of the eighth year of...

Foreword I am pleased to share the UN’s Framework for the socioeconomic response to COVID-19 in Jordan. The Framework connects urgent health and humanitarian requirements with what needs to be done...

United Nations Secretary-General on COVID-19 and the Arab region: recovery is an opportunity to build back better Beirut, 23 July 2020--The COVID-19 pandemic is wreaking havoc on an Arab region...

Description: As a multi-agency collaboration involving several organizations, this report has been published without style editing or review against IOM’s specific guidelines. The opinions expressed...

This paper is prepared on the occasion of the celebration of the Desertification and Drought Day 2020. It addresses this year’s theme for which the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification...

At the beginning of this week, the United Nations Secretary-General issued an appeal to stop violence everywhere including violence in the home. As Directors of the four United Nations Agencies who...

ESCWA & partners warn: violence against women has increased due to COVID-19; Women will lose twice as much as men in terms of jobs Beirut, 6 April 2020--While COVID-19 is affecting people...

Beirut, 1 April 2020--An additional 8.3 million people will fall into poverty in the Arab region, according to a new policy brief issued today by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for...

Regional emergency response to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 25 March 2020 Beirut, Lebanon Statement by Rola Dashti Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Secretary of ESCWA on...

At least 1.7 million jobs will be lost in the Arab region due to the coronavirus pandemic Beirut, 18 March 2020--In addition to the rising death toll and extremely heavy burden on health-care...