Conference on Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: Follow-up to the development agenda beyond 2015 and Rio+20

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) held the Conference on Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: Follow-up to the development agenda beyond 2015 and Rio+20 in the Monserrate Conference Room of the Crowne Plaza Tequendama Hotel in Bógota, Colombia on 7-9 of March 2013.…

Side Event on the Declaration of Principle 10 at the meeting of the Governing Council of the United Nations Program for Environment (UNEP)

First meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Committee on South-South Cooperation

The first meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Committee on South-South Cooperation of Latin America and the Caribbean was held in Lima on 27 November 2012. This had been elected at the thirty-fourth session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). The meeting was attended by representatives of the following countries, which had been appointed to serve as Presiding Officers: Brazil, Chile, Cuba, El Salvador, Peru and Uruguay. …

Forty-eighth meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

The Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean held their forty-eighth meeting on 7 and 8 November 2012 in Santiago.…

First meeting of the focal points designated by the governments of the countries that signed the declaration on the application of Principle 10 in Latin America and the Caribbean

The first meeting of the focal points designated by the governments of the countries that signed the declaration on the application of principle 10 was held at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, November 6-7, 2012.…

Committee on South-South Cooperation on the occasion of the thirty fourth session of ECLAC

The Committee on South-South Cooperation was held in the framework of the Thirty-fourth session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), held in San Salvador on 29 August 2012 .…

Thirty-fourth session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

The thirty-fourth session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) was held in San Salvador from 27 to 31 August 2012. By resolution 656(XXXIII), adopted at the thirty-third session of ECLAC (Brasilia, 30 May-1 June 2010), member States agreed that El Salvador would be the host country of the meeting. The session is the most important event of each biennium for ECLAC. It provides a forum for the consideration of issues of importance for the development of the countries of the region and an opportunity to review the activities of the Commission.…

Ad Hoc Committee on Population and Development: Ecuador 2012

In accordance to resolution 657 (XXXIII) from 2010, the main topic of the upcoming meeting of the Committee will be "Population, territory and sustainable development". The meeting will include 5 panels on priority issues in the framework of the main topic: a) Population, territory and sustainable development in the Caribbean; b) Investing in youth: Gaps in the universal access to sexual and reproductive health; c) Indigenous peoples, territory and sustainable development; d) Territory and public policies; and e) Population and rural development. It will also include a high level round table w…

Eleventh meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC

At its eleventh meeting, the Executive Committee will review the implementation of the biennial programme of regional and international cooperation activities, 2012-2013, which was adopted by the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC at its sixth meeting in resolution 7(VI). In particular, the Executive Committee will review progress made in implementing the plans of action drawn up by the working groups of the Conference, and will propose measures to enhance their achievements. As is usual, two substantive seminars will be held during the meeting of the Executive Committee: (a) Pane…

Rio+20 - Meetings of the United Nations system. ECLAC and Sustainable Development

ECLAC and Sustainable Development…

Twenty-fourth session of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee

Third Regional Conference Intergovernmental Conference on Ageing in Latin America and the Caribbean

The United Nations Economic and Social Council, through its resolution 2010/14, has called upon governments and regional commissions that during 2012 they undertake celebratory actions of the ten years since the adoption of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing. Meanwhile in Latin America and the Caribbean, through the agreements adopted through the ECLAC Special Committee on Population and Development in 2010, the Member States conducted a regional meeting of commemoration. In response to this mandate, ECLAC and the government of Costa Rica organized the Third Regional Interg…

Forty-seventh meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

The Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean held their forty-seventh meeting on 3 and 4 May 2012 in Panama City.…

XI Raúl Prebisch Memorial Lecture, dictated by Danilo Astori entitled: "Innovation Is Essential for Increasing Productivity and Improving Competitiveness in Countries"

Twenty-sixth session of the Committee of the Whole

The twenty-sixth session of the Committee of the Whole of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) taked place at United Nation’s headquarters in New York from 28 to 29 March 2012. The Committee of the Whole is an ECLAC body that allowed governments of member countries to meet between formal sessions of the Commission. This time ECLAC member countries examined the following issues, among others: Economic and social overview of Latin America and the Caribbean and outlook for 2012. Report on the activities of the subsidiary bodies of ECLAC, 2010-2012. Activities conduc…

Inter-agency Assessment of Sustainable Development 20 Years on from the Earth Summit: Progress, Gaps and Strategic Guidelines for Latin America and the Caribbean

On 27 March 2012, at the United Nations headquarters in New York, ECLAC presented the inter-agency document Sustainable Development 20 Years on from the Earth Summit: Progress, Gaps and Strategic Guidelines in Latin America & the Caribbean .…

Workshop "Negotiating trade agreements for the 21st century: The case of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement"

This workshop organized jointly by the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the University of Adelaide’s Institute for International Trade (IIT), with the generous financial support of the Australian Government’s Overseas Aid Program (AUSAid). The workshop, held at the ECLAC headquarters in Santiago from 26 to 28 March 2012, brought together experienced trade negotiators from Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) and the eleven member countries of the Arco del Pacífico Latinoamericano group.…

Seminar: "The New India and the New Latin America - Synergies and Complementarities"

This seminar held on December 5, 2011 in Buenos Aires, was organized by ECLAC and the Government of India, included the presence of R. Viswanathan, Indian Ambassador to Argentina, Uruguay y Paraguay; Samuel Pinheiro Guimaraes, Secretary General of the Common Market of the South (MERCOSUR); Marisol Argueta de Barillas, Senior Director and Head of Latin America at the World Economic Forum (WEF); Embajador Horacio Salvador, Director General of International Economic Negotiations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Argentina; and Osvaldo Rosales, Director, Division of International Trade and Integrati…

Sixth meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC

Fifteenth meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee

The fifteenth meeting of the Monitoring Committee of CDCC took place in Port-of-Spain on 12 September 2011. Representatives of eight member States of CDCC attended the fifteenth Meeting of the Monitoring Committee: Belize, Cuba, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago. …