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

Gender affairs
19 November 1997|Event

This Conference, organized by ECLAC every three years in accordance with the Regional Plan of Action agreed by the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean in 1977 in Havana, Cuba, is the most important event in the region for analyzing policies aimed at stimulating the full participation of women in the development of their countries. The last such meetings were held in Mar del Plata, Argentina, in 1994, and Curaçao in 1991.

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Séptima Conferencia de la Mujer
Séptima Conferencia de la Mujer

ECLAC prepared two documents for the meeting, Access to Power and Participation in Decision-Making. Latin America and the Caribbean: Policies for Gender Equity Looking to the Year 2000 and Sustainable Development, Poverty and Gender. Latin America and the Caribbean: Working Towards the Year 2000. These studies provided the basis for the Conference work sessions, in which representatives of academic centres, non-governmental organizations and specialized United Nations organizations will also take part.

The main purpose of the Conference was proposed ways of accelerating the implementation of the Platform for Action adopted at the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing and the current Regional Programme of Action for the Women of Latin America and the Caribbean, and of overcoming obstacles in the design and carrying out of policies in these areas. Debates considered the results of other United Nations Summits since the Beijing Conference, especially the First Regional Conference in Follow-up to the World Summit on Social Development (São Paulo, Brazil, 1997).

ANNOTATIONS TO THE AGENDA

1. Election of officers

2. Adoption of the agenda

3. Activities of the ECLAC secretariat and the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on the Integration of Women into the Economic and Social Development of Latin America and the Caribbean since the sixth session of the Regional Conference

4. Access to power and participation in decision-making. Latin America and the Caribbean: policies for gender equity looking to the year 2000

5. Sustainable development, poverty and gender. Latin America and the Caribbean: working towards the year 2000

6. Consideration and adoption of the Conference agreements

7. Other matters

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