`Beirut Communique` from the First High-Level Mashreq Conference On Women´s Economic Empowerment
(WorldNews Business)

On this day, January 19, 2019, the World Bank Group and the Governments of Lebanon and Canada convened the first high-level Mashreq Conference on Women`s Economic Empowerment. Conference participants representing governments, private sector, civil society, academia, international organizations, multilaterals, and donors noted with concern the low levels of women`s participation in the economy in the Mashreq countries (Iraq, Lebanon and Jordan). Conference participants expressed their appreciation to the Government of Lebanon for hosting the event in Beirut on the eve of the Arab Summit for Economic and Social Development. There was unanimous consent among conference participants that gender...