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Sixth Regional Conference on the Integration of Women into the Economic and Social Development of Latin America and the Caribbean

Gender affairs
25 September 1994|Event

The sixth session of the Regional Conference on the Integration of Women into the Economic and Social Development of Latin America and the Caribbean was convened by the Executive Secretary of ECLAC in fulfilment of ECLAC resolution 509(XXIII). The purpose of the Conference was to adopt the Regional Programme of Action for the Women of Latin America and the Caribbean, 1995-2001, and to serve as the regional preparatory meeting for the Fourth World Conference on Women, to be held at Beijing in 1995.

The Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean is a subsidiary body of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) which is convened on a regular basis, at least every three years, to identify the situation of women’s autonomy and rights at the regional and subregional levels, present public policies recommendations for gender equality, undertake periodic assessments of the activities carried out in fulfilment of regional and international plans and agreements on the subject, and serve as a forum for debates on relevant issues.

ECLAC has been given the mandate to convene the member States to sessions of the Regional Conference. Generally, a member country of ECLAC offers to host the conference. 

Provisional agenda: 

1. Election of officers

2. Adoption of the agenda

3. Report of the Chairperson of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on the Integration of Women into the Economic and Social Development of Latin America and the Caribbean on the work accomplished since the fifth session of the Regional Conference

4. Presentation, by the Secretary-General of the Fourth World Conference on Women, of the Platform for Action to be discussed at Beijing, and preparations for that Conference

5. Report of the ECLAC secretariat on the activities carried out in 1991-1994 and the documentation prepared for consideration at the Conference

6. Analysis and evaluation of the situation of women in Latin America and the Caribbean in the 1990s

7. Elaboration and adoption of the regional programme of action for the women of Latin America and the Caribbean, 1995-2001

8. Regional preparations for the Fourth World Conference on Women

9. Seventh session of the Regional Conference on the Integration of Women into the Economic and Social Development of Latin America and the Caribbean

10. Other matters

11. Consideration and adoption of the report of the meeting

 

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