Press release

23 Jul 2010

Beirut

ESCWA holds a Regional Workshop on Women for Arab Parliaments

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Beirut, 23 July 2010 (UN Information Service) — The Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) is holding a Regional Workshop for Arab Parliaments on implementing the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and ending violence against them, at the UN House in Beirut from 27 to 29 July. ESCWA is organizing the workshop in cooperation with the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), the Lebanese Parliament and the United Nations Development Programme-Parliamentary Development Initiative in the Arab Region (UNDP-PDIAR). Participants are members of parliaments and parliamentary staff from all 14 Arab member countries of ESCWA. The UN Information Service kindly requests news media to give this meeting the highlight it deserves and to cover the workshop's sessions, which start at 09:30 AM on Tuesday, 27 July 2010.
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