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International Women’s Day Kuwait Hosts ESCWA Workshop on Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security Is There a Role for Women Following Arab Uprisings? Women in Computing in the Arab world UN Marks Int’l Women’s Day, Urges Media Focus on Rural Women, Ending Stereotypes Women in Arab Uprisings Seminar Palestinian Minister Honors ESCWA Center for Women ESCWA and Hariri Foundation Sign MoU on Women Empowerment ESCWA, Bahrain Sign MoU

KEY DOCUMENTS, PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES   Beijing Regional 15-Year Review Consolidated Arab Report on the Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action: +15 Bahrain National Report- Beijing+15 (in Arabic) Egypt National Report- Beijing+15 (in Arabic) Jordan National Report- Beijing+15 (in Arabic) Kuwait National Report- Beijing+15 (in Arabic) Lebanon National Report- Beijing+15 (in Arabic) Oman National Report- Beijing+15 (in Arabic) Palestine National Report- Beijing+15 (in Arabic) Qatar National Report- Beijing+15 (in Arabic) Sudan National Report- Beijing+15 (in Arabic) Syria National Report- Beijing+15 (in Arabic) U.A.E. National Report- Beijing+15 (in Arabic) Yemen National Report- Beijing+15 (in Arabic) Algeria National Report- Beijing+15 (in Arabic) Djibouti National Report- Beijing+15 (in French) Mauritania National Report- Beijing+15 (in French) Morocco National Report- Beijing+15 (in Arabic) Tunisia National Report- Beijing+15 (in Arabic)   Brochures 32 Years of the CEDAW Convention Developments in the Situation of Arab Women UN-ESCWA Centre for Women The Impact of Armed Conflict on Women   ECW Newsletter December 2012-Volume 3 Issue 30: Information and Communication Technology: An opportunity to Empower Women and Close the Gender Divide June 2012- Volume 3-Issue 29: Addressing Barriers Hindering Women's Economic Participation in the ESCWA Region December 2011-Volume 3 Issue 28: Gender Developments of the Current Arab Uprisings April 2011-volume 3 Issue 26: Gender Mainstreaming for Good Governance December 2010: Volume 3 Issue 25: Measures to Enhance Women's Participation in Politics November 2010 Volume 2 Issue 24: Ten years Security Council Resolution 1325 June 2010 Volume 2 Issue 23: International efforts to eliminate violence against women December 2009 Volume 2 Issue 22: Beijing Platform for Action and its Follow-up September 2009 Volume 2 Issue 21: Human Trafficking June 2009 Volume 2 Issue 20: Gender and ICT March 2009 Volume 2 - Issue 19: Gender and Food Security December 2008 Volume 2 - Issue 18: Gender and the Monterrey Consensus (Arabic) October 2008 Volume 2 - Issue 17: Gender and Climate Change -Part 2 (Arabic) August 2008 Volume 2 - Issue 16: Gender and Climate Change -Part 1 (Arabic) May 2008 Volume 2 - Issue 15: Gender Budgeting (Arabic) December 2007 Volume 2 - Issue 14: Women and Water (Arabic) November 2007 Volume 2 - Issue 13: Gender Equality III October 2007 Volume 1 - Issue 12: Gender Equality II September 2007 Volume 1 - Issue 11: Gender Equality I August 2007 Volume 1 - Issue 10: Women and Ageing July 2007 Volume 1 - Issue 9: Gender and the Millenium Development Goals IV June 2007 Volume 1 - Issue 8: Gender and the Millenium Development Goals III May 2007 Volume 1 - Issue 7: Gender and the Millenium Development Goals II April 2007 Volume 1 - Issue 6: Gender and the Millenium Development Goals I March 2007 Volume 1 - Issue 5: Violence against Women February 2007 Volume 1 - Issue 4: Women in Research and Development January 2007 Volume 1 - Issue 3: Gender and Migration December 2006 Volume 1 - Issue 2: Gender and Renewable Energy November 2006 Volume 1 - Issue 1: Gender and Conflict   Key Documents ECOSOC Resolution 2001/41 Gender Mainstreaming in the United Nations Strategy on Gender Mainstreaming at UN-ESCWA Guidelines Resolution Establishing the ESCWA Centre for Women   Major Conventions on Women Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (1979, entry into force 1981) Convention on the Political Rights of Women (1952, entry into force 1954) Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others (1949) Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)   Major Declarations on Women Beijing Platform of Action A/RES/56(I) Political Rights of Women (1946) A/RES/2263(XXII) Declaration of Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (1967) A/RES/3318 (XXIX) Declaration on the Protection of Women and Children in Emergency Armed Conflict (1974) A/RES/3519 (XXX) Women Participation in the Strengthening of International Peace and Security and in the Struggle against Colonialism, Racism, Racial Discrimination and Foreign Aggression and Occupation and all forms of Foreign Domination (1975) A/RES/34/161 Women Refugees (1979) A/RES/37/63 Declaration on the Participation of Women in Promoting International Peace and Co-operation (1982) A/RES/48/104 Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women (1993) A/RES/50/167 Traffic in women and girls (1995) A/RES/50/168 Violence against women migrant workers (1995) A/RES/50/192 Rape and abuse of women in the areas of armed conflicts in the former Yugoslavia (1995) A/RES/52/100 Follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women and Full Implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1997) S/RES/1325 (2000) Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) Women and Peace and Security   Member States National Machineries for Women Tunisia Morocco Iraq Sudan Oman Bahrain Egypt Jordan Kuwait Lebanon Palestine Qatar Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Syria United Arab Emirates Yemen   Project on "Strengthening National Mechanisms for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women" National Mechanisms for Gender Equality in the ESCWA Region   Recent CEDAW Country Reports of ESCWA Member States Tunisia: Combined Fifth and Sixth Periodic Report Libya: Combined Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Periodic Report Morocco: Combined Third and Fourth Periodic Report Oman: Initial Periodic Report Qatar: Initial Periodic Report Jordan: Fifth Periodic Report United Arab Emirates: Initial Periodic Report Bahrain: Third Periodic Report Syria: Initial Periodic Report Iraq: Combined Fourth, Fifth and Sixh Periodic Report Kuwait: Combined Third and Fourth Periodic Report Lebanon: Third Periodic Report Egypt: Combined Sixth and Seventh Periodic Report KSA: Combined Initial and Second Periodic Report Yemen: Sixth Periodic Report   Reports of the Committee on Women 5th Session of the Committee on Women (2011) 4th Session of the Committee on Women: A Resolution on the Follow-up to Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action in the Arab States After Fifteen Years: Beijing +15 4th Session of the Committee on Women (2009) 1st Session of the Committee on Women (2003) 2nd Session of the Committee on Women (2004): A Call for Peace 3rd Session of the Committee on Women (2007)   Selected Meeting Reports Workshop on the CEDAW Convention:The Role of Judges and Parliamentarians in Implementation (2007)   PUBLICATIONS E/ESCWA/ECW/2012/Technical Paper.2 Social and Economic Situation of Palestinian Women E/ESCWA/ECW/2012/1 Addressing Barriers to Women’s Economic Participation in the ESCWA Region E/ESCWA/ECW/2011/WG.5/Report Report: Forum of Young Women and Men in the Arab Uprisings: Agents of Change on the Road to Democracy More >>

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