06 Sep 2021 - UN HUMANITARIAN CHIEF CONCLUDES VISIT TO SYRIA, LEBANON AND TURKEY4 September 2021: The Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Martin Griffiths, has concluded his seven-...
03 Sep 2021 - ESCWA warns: Three-quarters of Lebanon’s residents plunge into povertyBeirut, 3 September 2021--Poverty in Lebanon has drastically increased over the past year, now affecting about 74% of...
04 Aug 2021 - The Conference in Support of the Population of Lebanon took place on 4 August 2021 by videoconference, at the joint invitation of the President of the French Republic and the United Nations Secretary-General. Thirty three States, thirteen international organizations and 5...
17 Jun 2021 - UN Supports Calls for Helping LAF meet Emergency Needs 17 June 2021UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon Joanna Wronecka today called on countries taking part in a French-hosted...
21 Apr 2021 - UN Deputy Special Coordinator, Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Lebanon, Ms. Najat Rochdi, announced today the arrival from the UN headquarters of the first batch of 15,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca (AZ) vaccine that will be used in the...
10 Feb 2021 - ESCWA: Lebanon's Formal Private Sector - The Bitter Reality of 2020
Beirut, 2 February 2021--Since 2019, the Lebanese economy is in free fall, a dramatic situation which was further exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and last summer’s Beirut Port explosion. A new policy...