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or 1976), Lebanon and Tunisia (1966), Yemen (1971), Syria (1975), Palestine (1982), Libya (1991), Jordan (1996), Egypt (2003), Bahrain (2006), the United Arab Emirates (2008), Qatar (2010), Mauritania (2013), and Kuwait (2020). In June 2021, Egypt announced that female judges would take seats in Public Prosecution and State Council in October that year.
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In 2019, ESCWA reported regarding the situation of women in the judiciary system, in which only three countries had not appointed female judges yet, including Oman, Saudi Arabia and Somalia. Other countries which already had female judges were: Iraq (1959), Morocco (1961), Algeria (1962), Sudan (1965
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state which had established an apartheid system. The report itself said it had established on the "basis of scholarly inquiry and overwhelming evidence, that Israel is guilty of the crime of apartheid". Israel has condemned the report. "We expected of course that Israel and its allies would put huge
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The budget of Commission comes mainly from contributions from the United Nations, but also from donations from governments, regional funds, private foundations and international development agencies. In 2017, the total budget of the Commission was $ 27.4 million. Additionally, since 2014, the
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The extra budgetary projects line item supports economic and social development under the seven subprograms of the Commission: Economic Development and Integration, Gender and Women Issues, Governance and Conflict Issues, Natural Resources, Social Development, Statistics and Technology for
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On March 17, Khalaf submitted her letter of resignation to Guterres. Following the strong response from Israel, she wrote: "It is only normal for criminals to pressure and attack those who advocate the cause of their victims." She continued to stand by the report.
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The regular programme of technical cooperation line item works to support member states in formulating sustainable socioeconomic development policies. In 2017, the regular programme of technical cooperation budget was $ 2.3 million.
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The development account line item helps fund capacity building projects at national, subregional, regional and interregional levels. In 2017, the development account budget was $ 1.9 million.
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of Beirut, Lebanon since 1997. Prior to this, the headquarters moved between multiple cites. The first headquarters of the Commission were located in Beirut from 1974–1982. They then moved to
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The Commission has four main budgets: the regular budget, the regular programme of technical cooperation (RPTC), the development account and the extrabudgetary projects account.
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on a biennial basis and provides the Commission with resources fulfill its mandate as laid out in the Strategic Framework. In 2017, the regular budget was $ 19.9 million.
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pressure on the Secretary-General of the United Nations so that he would disavow the report, and that they would ask him to withdraw it," Khalaf said to
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had distanced himself from the report and the document was removed from UN website on Friday, March 17, 2017. The report
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Commission has received $ 7.1 million in voluntary contributions to help implement national and regional activities.
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Amendment of the terms of reference of the Economic Commission for Western Asia: change of name of the Commission
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On March 15, 2017, UNESCWA released a report accusing Israel (not a UNESCWA member state) of being an "
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On 26 July 1985, in recognition of the social component of its work, the Commission was renamed to the
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Considered European for cultural, political and historical reasons but is geographically in West Asia.
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and social development of Western Asia through regional and subregional cooperation and integration.
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The Commission was first established by the Economic and Social Council on 9 August 1973 as the
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The following is a list of the Executive Secretaries of the Commission since its foundation:
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Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
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Development. In 2017, extra budgetary projects budget was $ 3.2 million.
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Spans the conventional boundary between Asia and another continent.
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United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development
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Establishment of and Economic Commission for Western Asia
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The Commission's headquarters have been located in the
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The Commission works closely with the divisions of the
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The Commission's Headquarters are located in Beirut.
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