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Caribbean Youth Dialogues 2024 in preparation of the ECOSOC Youth Forum

3 - 4 Apr 2024 | Event (Meetings and technical symposiums)

The Caribbean is home to more than 11 million youth between the ages of 15 and 29. These young people have a central role to play in achieving sustainable development in the region. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is an opportunity to galvanize action aimed at promoting greater inclusion of youth in all spheres. This roadmap recognizes in several of its goals the centrality of the full incorporation of youth as a necessary condition to move towards more egalitarian societies on a path of sustainable development. However, youth in the subregion face many challenges that need to be a…

Tenth meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC

19 - 21 Nov 2019 | Event (Conferences and meetings of subsidiary bodies)

La Décima Reunión de la Conferencia Estadística de las Américas de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) se llevará a cabo en Santiago, del 19 al 21 de noviembre de 2019. El Programa Bienal de Actividades de Cooperación Regional e Internacional 2018-2019 de la Conferencia Estadística de las Américas se enmarca en el Plan Estratégico, 2015-2025, que establece como ejes de acción el fortalecimiento institucional y el papel rector de las oficinas nacionales de estadística, el desarrollo de los recursos humanos y de la producción estadística para asegurar su calidad y…

UNFCCC COP24 Side Event "Voices from the Climate Frontlines: Protecting the rights of the most vulnerable (and furthest behind)"

10 Dec 2018 - 17:00 | Event (Intergovernmental meetings)

Organized by OHCHR, UN Women, UNICEF, UNCTAD, UNDP, UN HABITAT, ILO and ECLAC, the side event will analyse how the Paris Agreement Work Programme can and should ensure the right to participation, particularly for persons living in poverty that are disproportionately affected by climate change, and discuss concrete examples of how employing a participatory human rights based approach to climate action promotes sustainable development and the eradication of poverty. Speakers will reflect on the role of the recently adopted Escazú Agreement and the Aarhus Convention, as specific tools to mainstre…

49th Session of the United Nations Statistical Commission

6 - 9 Mar 2018 | Event (Meetings of the United Nations system)

The Statistical Commission consists of 24 member countries of the United Nations, elected by the United Nations Economic and Social Council on the basis of an equitable geographical distribution. The term of office of members is four years.…

First meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

1 Nov 2016 - 15:00 | Event (Presiding officers)

ECLAC’s first meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean was carried out jointly with the VIII Ministerial Forum for Development in Latin America and the Caribbean and was co-organized by the UNDP Regional Office for Latin America, the Vice-presidency of the Dominican Republic and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)…

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