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Eighth Session of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

Gender affairs
8 February 2000|Event

The eighth session of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, convened by the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in compliance with ECLAC resolution 567(XXVII), was held in Lima, Peru, from 8 to 10 February 2000.

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.  It is organized by ECLAC as Secretariat of the Conference and, since 2020, with the support of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women). 

It is convened periodically, at intervals of no more than three years, to identify the situation of women’s autonomy and rights at the regional and subregional levels, present public policies recommendations for gender equality, and conduct periodic assessments of the activities carried out in fulfilment of regional and international agreements.  

PROVISIONAL AGENDA

1. Election of officers

2. Adoption of the agenda

3. Activities of the ECLAC secretariat and of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean since the seventh session of the Regional Conference

4. Gender equity for Latin America and the Caribbean on the threshold of the twenty-first century

5. Human rights and peace for Latin America and the Caribbean on the threshold of the twenty-first century

6. Consideration and adoption of the Conference agreements

7. Other matters

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