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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…

Launch of the 2024 Demographic Observatory: "Population Prospects and Rapid Demographic Changes in the First Quarter of the 21st Century in Latin America and the Caribbean"

28 November 2024, 08:00 - 10:00 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

CELADE - Population Division of ECLAC invites to the launch of the 2024 Demographic Observatory, a document presenting the main demographic indicators of Latin America and the Caribbean according to the 2024 revision of the United Nations population estimates and projections. The document compares these indicators with the 2000 revision with the aim of highlighting the major demographic changes in the region since the beginning of the 21st century.…

“Social cohesion for inclusive social development in Latin America: monitoring, challenges and opportunities in an era of uncertainties"

27 June 2024, 10:30 - 12:00 | Event (Other events)

The central focus of the Fourth Regional Seminar on Social Development Social Protection and Inequality: Latin America and the Caribbean towards the Second World Summit for Social Development in 2025 is inequality. In this context, the objective of this parallel event is to open the discussion on the state of social cohesion in the region.…

Inequalities in early childhood: strategic and indispensable approaches to inclusive social development

26 June 2024, 09:40 - 11:30 | Event (Other events)

The event will bring together policymakers, experts, civil society representatives and international organizations to discuss the findings of the report “Confronting Inequality in Early Childhood - The footprints of the COVID-19 pandemic on new generations of children in Latin America and the Caribbean” and explore agendas and policies that will effectively mitigate the impacts of the pandemic and promote comprehensive early childhood development.…

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.…

Fourth session of the Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

26 - 28 October 2021 | Event (Conferences and meetings of subsidiary bodies)

The fourth session of the Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean is being organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the Government of Antigua and Barbuda and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The meeting, which will be held virtually, will be attended by social development authorities from the region. The document to be presented on this occasion analyses the impact of disasters and inequality as well as options for the implementation of some of the lines of action of the Regional Agenda for Inclusive …

Side Event : Women’s autonomy and the care economy in the framework of a transformative and sustainable recovery with equality, Development in Transition (DiT) sessions

13 July 2021, 05:00 - 09:00 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

The crisis caused by the COVID-19 virus has accentuated the structural challenges of gender inequality and has generated a setback of more than a decade in terms of women's participation in the labor market, a deepening of the feminization of poverty and an increase in the burden of care work, even in higher-income countries such as Chile, Costa Rica and Uruguay. Furthermore, as one of the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, the digitalization of economies that still face a significant gender gap in terms of access to and use of technologies, accentuated even more by income levels, has acce…

Inter-regional Expert Group Meeting "Placing equality at the centre of the 2030 Agenda"

27 - 28 June 2018 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

Understanding and addressing inequality in all its forms is necessary to promote the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and to ensure that “no one is left behind” in the development process. However, many challenges still exist to foster knowledge on the multiple dimensions of inequality, improve its measurement and strengthen the design of public policies for equality and that consider a rights-based approach. This Inter-regional Expert Group Meeting marks the closing of the 9th Tranche United Nations Development Account project “Promoting Equality: Strengthening the Capacity of…

Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

2 - 4 November 2015 | Event (Conferences and meetings of subsidiary bodies)

<p>The Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean was established at the Thirty-fifth session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) held in Lima in 2014, as one of the subsidiary bodies of the Commission with a view to contributing to the progress of political and social development activities of the region.</p>…

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

5 - 9 May 2014 | Event (Sessions of the Commission)

The session is the most important biennial meeting of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). It serves as a forum for consideration of pressing development issues for the countries of the region, as well as an occasion to review the progress of the Commission’s work.…

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

5 - 9 March 2013 | Event (Meetings of the United Nations system)

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.…

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

27 - 31 August 2012 | Event (Sessions of the Commission)

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.…

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

6 - 7 December 2010 | Event (Presiding officers)

Los días 6 y 7 de diciembre se realiza en Santiago la XLV Reunión de la Mesa Directiva de la Conferencia Regional sobre la Mujer de América Latina y el Caribe. La reunión de la Mesa Directiva de la Conferencia reúne a las delegaciones de los países miembros de la Mesa Directiva. Esta reunión se lleva a cabo para identificar las prioridades de los gobiernos de los países y de la Secretaría de la Conferencia Regional sobre la Mujer con miras a cumplir los acuerdos adoptados en el Consenso de Brasilia, celebrados durante la undécima Conferencia Regional sobre la Mujer. La inauguración de la Reuni…

XI session of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

13 - 16 July 2010 | Event (Conferences and meetings of subsidiary bodies)

The eleventh session of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean was convened by the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in compliance with ECLAC resolution 658(XXXIII) and was held in Brasilia, from 13 to 16 July 2010. …

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