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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 Holds Regional Workshop on Women for Arab Parliaments ESCWA, UNDAW Cooperate in Addressing Violence against Women ESCWA and Hariri Foundation Sign MoU on Women Empowerment ESCWA, Bahrain Sign MoU

KEY DOCUMENTS, PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES   Activities Databases and Mapping Technical Assistance and Advisory Services Collaboration with other Regional Commissions and UN Bodies Workshops Media Campaigns Publications and Reports Gender Mainstreaming at UN-ESCWA   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 The UN-ESCWA Center for Women Developments in the Situation of Arab Women The Impact of Armed Conflict on Women   CEDAW Country Reports of ESCWA Member States Jordan: Second Periodic Report Jordan: Combined Third and Fourth Periodic Reports United Arab Emirates: Initial Report Bahrain: Combined Initial and Second Periodic Reports Bahrain: Combined Initial and Second Periodic Reports -Supplementary Report 2008 Syria: Initial Report Iraq: Combined Second and Third Periodic Reports Kuwait: Combined Initial and Second Periodic Reports Lebanon: Second Periodic Report Lebanon: Third Periodic Report Egypt: Combined Fourth and Fifth Periodic Reports Egypt: Combined Sixth and Seventh Periodic Reports KSA: Combined Initial and Second Periodic Reports Yemen: Fifth Periodic Report Yemen: Sixth Periodic Report   ECW Newsletter ECW Newsletter Issue 28: Gender Developments of the Current Arab Uprisings ECW Newsletter 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 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   Reports 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) A Call for Peace: 2nd Session of the Committee on Women (2004) 3rd Session of the Committee on Women (2007)   Selected Meeting Reports Workshop on the CEDAW Convention: The Role of Judges and Parliamentarians in Implementation Workshop on Gender Mainstreaming in the Arab Region_2003_E Arab Regional Ten Year Review and Appraisal of Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action_2004_E Arab Meeting for the Ten Year Review of the International Year of the Family_2003_E   PUBLICATIONS E/ESCWA/ECW/2011/3 Good Practices and Success in Implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women in Arab Countries E/ESCWA/PI/2011/3 32 Years of CEDAW: 1979-2011 E/ESCWA/ECW/2011/2 Gender Mainstreaming in the Policies, Programmes and Activities of Ministries of Labour and Social Affairs in ESCWA Member Countries: Guide More >>

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