The 64th Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

8 Feb 2023 | Event

Work area(s)

Gender affairs

Topic(s)

Care society Gender equality
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Event information

The 64th Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean was held virtually from 8 to 9 February 2023.

Date

8 - 09 Feb 2023, 06:30 - 11:00

Event type

Presiding officers

Participation

By registration

Address

Virtual
Virtual
Chile
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At the sixty-fourth meeting of the Presiding Officers, the delegations exchanged views on the actions planned for the implementation of the Buenos Aires Commitment adopted at the XV Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean (Buenos Aires, 2022).
In addition, a special regional consultation session was held prior to the 67th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW67), whose priority theme will be "Innovation and technological change, and education in the digital era to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls".

The 64 Meeting was organized by ECLAC, as the Secretariat of the Regional Conference, in coordination with the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women). Currently, the Government of Argentina, through the Minister for Women, Gender and Diversity of Argentina, chairs the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean is a subsidiary body of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and is the main regional intergovernmental forum on women's rights and gender equality within the United Nations system.

Agreements Sixty-fourth meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean 

Declaration by ministers and high-level authorities of the national machineries for the advancement of women in Latin America and the Caribbean for the Sixty-seventh session of the Commission on the Status of Women 

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Programme of work

8 February 2023

  • Opening session of the sixty-fourth meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

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    • José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Opening remarks
    • María-Noel Vaeza, Regional Director for the Americas and the Caribbean of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women)
    • Ayelén Mazzina, Minister for Women, Gender and Diversity of Argentina
    • María del Carmen Squeff, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Argentina to the United Nations and Vice-Chair of the Bureau of the sixty-seventh session of the Commission on the Status of Women designated by the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States
    Presentation(s)

  • Adoption of the agenda

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    Presentation(s)

  • Reports by the countries on the actions planned for the implementation of the Buenos Aires Commitment

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  • Break

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  • Report on the Regional Fund in support of Women’s and Feminist Organizations and Movements

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    • Report of the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Regional Fund, presented by Ayelén Mazzina, Minister for Women, Gender and Diversity of Argentina
    • Report of the Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women), in its capacity as administrative body, presented by Cecilia Alemany, Deputy Regional Director for the Americas and the Caribbean and ad interim representative in Argentina of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women)
    • Statement by Lucy Garrido, of Articulación Feminista Marcosur, as a representative of women’s and feminist organizations
    • Election of representatives 

    Statements by delegations

  • Special session: regional consultation prior to the sixty-seventh session of the Commission on the Status of Women

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    Presentation of the reference document Gender equality and women’s and girls’ autonomy in the digital era: contributions of education and digital transformation in Latin America and the Caribbean, prepared by ECLAC, UN-Women and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), by Ana Güezmes García, Chief of the Division for Gender Affairs of ECLAC, and Cecilia Alemany, Deputy Regional Director for the Americas and the Caribbean and ad interim representative in Argentina of UN-Women (Presentation)

     

    Panel 1: Promoting the educational trajectories of girls, young women, and women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics in the digital era

    Moderator: Ayelén Mazzina, Minister for Women, Gender and Diversity of Argentina, in her capacity as Chair of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean and representative of the country serving as Vice-Chair of the Commission on the Status of Women, representing GRULAC

    • Tamika Benjamin, National Mathematics Coordinator, on behalf of Jamaica's Minister of Education and Youth, Fayval Williams
    • Ernesto Fernández Polcuch, Director of the Regional Bureau for Science in Latin America and the Caribbean of UNESCO and Representative of UNESCO in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay
    • Ximena Cruz, co-founder of TechnoLatinas
    • Loreiny Morán, National Youth Coordinator for the National Indigenous Organization of Colombia (ONIC), representing the Continental Network of Indigenous Women of the Americas (ECMIA)
    • María Inés Castillo de Sanmartín, Minister of Social Development of Panama (pre-recorded video message)

     

     

    Statements by delegations

    Presentation(s)

  • Presentation of the declaration of the Committee of Non-Governmental Organizations on the Condition of Women from Latin America and the Caribbean (CoNGO CSW LAC)

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    Declaration of the Committee of Non-Governmental Organizations on the Condition of Women from Latin America and the Caribbean (CoNGO CSW LAC)

9 February 2023

  • Special session: regional consultation prior to the sixty-seventh session of the Commission on the Status of Women (continued)

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    Panel 2: Closing gender gaps in access to and use of digital technologies to promote women's autonomy in the digital ecosystem

    Moderator: Luz Vidal Huiriqueo, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Women’s Affairs and Gender Equity of Chile

    • Aparecida Gonçalves, Minister for Women of Brazil
    • Amparo Arango Echeverri, Director of the Telecommunications Development
    • Fund of the Dominican Telecommunications Institute (INDOTEL)
    • Ana Veneroso, Regional Director ad interim for the Americas of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
    • Florencia Partenio, member of the Executive Board of Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN)
    • Andrea Mendaro, General Manager of the Uruguayan Chamber of Information Technologies (CUTI)

     



    Discussion and statements by delegations

    Presentation(s)

  • Break

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  • Other matters

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  • Consideration and adoption of agreements

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  • Closing session

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    • José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Secretary ECLAC
    • Cecilia Alemany, Deputy Regional Director for the Americas and the Caribbean and ad interim representative in Argentina of UN-Women
    • Ayelén Mazzina, Minister for Women, Gender and Diversity of Argentina

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