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Side Event Presentation of the document “Education and the development of digital competences in Latin America and the Caribbean”

24 June 2025, 16:30 - 18:00 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

Digital transformation is increasingly modifying people's daily lives and their opportunities in the productive, social and cultural world (Velázquez, Martínez and Palma, 2020). Artificial intelligence, big data, blockchain, cloud data and platforms are among these digital technologies (Palma 2024), and their potential impacts are still being determined. Recent labour market analyses show the transformation and creation of new occupations, mainly related to the rise of the technology industry and information management tasks, as well as the elimination of certain types of jobs due to automatio…

Side Event "Side Event "Laying the Foundations for a Regional Proposal on the Multidimensional Measurement of Social Inequality”

24 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:30 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

Latin America and the Caribbean is one of the most unequal regions in the world, not only in terms of income but also across multiple dimensions of well-being, such as education, health, employment, housing, and access to basic services. These inequalities tend to accumulate and reinforce each other, disproportionately affecting historically excluded groups such as women, indigenous peoples, people of African descent, and rural populations. ECLAC has conceptualised this reality through the 'matrix of social inequality', which highlights how different dimensions of well-being interact with stru…

Fifth Regional Seminar on Social Development

24 - 26 June 2025 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

BACKGROUND Since the 1995 World Summit on Social Development in Copenhagen, the global agenda on social development has advanced significantly, not only on a deeper understanding of challenges such as well-being, poverty, inequality, and discrimination, but also on a growing emphasis on upholding economic, social, and cultural rights. Within this evolving framework, the changes, ambition and commitment of countries have been notable. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Regional Agenda for Inclusive Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean stand as compelling exampl…

Session on the Second World Summit for Social Development (Qatar, 2025)

1 April 2025, 11:00 - 12:00 | Event (Subsidiary bodies / intergovernmental)

Sesión desarrollada en el marco de la Octava Reunión del Foro de los Países de América Latina y el Caribe sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible 2025. A desarrollarse en Santiago, desde el 31 de marzo al 4 de abril.…

Special Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Social Development of Latin America and the Caribbean

24 March 2025, 10:00 - 11:30 | Event (Presiding officers)

Background The member States of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) decided, under Resolution 682(XXXV), approved at the thirty-fifth session of the Commission held in May 2014, to establish the Regional Conference on Social Development of Latin America and the Caribbean as one of the subsidiary bodies of ECLAC. Among its objectives are to promote the improvement of national social development policies, foster international, regional, and bilateral cooperation among offices and institutions, examine multidimensional poverty, and advance the measurement of povert…

Fourth Regional Seminar on Social Development "Social Protection and Inequality: Latin America and the Caribbean towards the Second World Summit for Social Development of 2025"

25 - 27 June 2024 | Event (Other events)

The objective of this seminar, organized by the Economic Commission of Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) is to promote reflection and dialogue to advance in the recognition, analysis of the characteristics and dimensioning of social inequality in the region. Therefore, it seeks to strengthen the design of public policies that allow progress in inclusive social development and thus progress in meeting the goals agreed by the countries in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.…