Endnotes

1 Report of the Secretary-General, Promoting empowerment of people in achieving poverty eradication, social integration and full employment and decent work for all (E/CN.5/2013/3).

2 The Arab region comprises the following 22 countries: Algeria; Bahrain; the Comoros; Djibouti; Egypt; Iraq; Jordan; Kuwait; Lebanon; Libya; Mauritania; Morocco; Oman; Palestine; Qatar; Saudi Arabia; Somalia; the Sudan; the Syrian Arab Republic; Tunisia; the United Arab Emirates; Yemen.

3 See, for example, Report of the Secretary-General, Implementation of the World Programme of Action for Youth (E/CN.5/2013/7*).

4 ESCWA, the demographic profile of the Arab countries. E/ESCWA/SDD/2013/Technical Paper.14

5 See Report of the Secretary-General, Second review and appraisal of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002 (E/CN.5/2013/6).

6 General Assembly, Outcome document of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the realization of the Millennium Development Goals and other internationally agreed development goals for persons with disabilities: the way forward, a disability- inclusive development agenda towards 2015 and beyond, paragraph 4 (i) (A/68/L.1).

7 See, for example, Report of the Secretary-General, Mainstreaming disability in the development agenda: towards 2015 and beyond (E/CN.5/2013/9); and Report of the Secretary-General, Keeping the promise: realizing the Millennium Development Goals for persons with disabilities towards 2015 and beyond (A/65/173).

8 Qatar Statistical Authority, Population, Household and Establishment Census 2010, Doha.

9 Sudan Central Bureau of Statistics, Fifth Population and Housing Census 2008, Khartoum.

10 See ESCWA, Proposed methods to combat poverty among persons with disability (E/ESCWA/SDD/2011/IG.1/4(Part I)), p. 10.

11 Report of the Secretary-General, Realization of the Millennium Development Goals and internationally agreed development goals for persons with disabilities: a disability-inclusive development agenda towards 2015 and beyond (A/67/211).