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

Event

Work area(s)

Gender affairs

Topic(s)

Violence against women Women's economic autonomy Women's political participation

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The ninth session of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean was convened by the Executive Secretary of ECLAC in compliance with ECLAC resolution 557(XXVI) and was held in Mexico City, Mexico, from 10 to 12 June 2004.

Event information

Date

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Event type

Conferences and meetings of subsidiary bodies

Participation

By invitation

The ninth session of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean had the function of reviewing the implementation of the international commitments undertaken in the Regional Programme of Action for the Women of Latin America and the Caribbean, adopted at the sixth session of the Regional Conference in 1994 and reaffirmed in 2000 in the Lima Consensus. The ninth session of the Regional Conference also gave the participants an opportunity to agree on the regional input to be provided to the forty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women, to be held in March 2005. 

PROVISIONAL AGENDA

1.Election of presiding officers

2. Adoption of the agenda

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

4. Poverty, economic autonomy and gender equity

5. Empowerment, institution-building and gender equity

6. Activities commemorating the tenth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women

7. Consideration and adoption of agreements by the Conference

8. Other matters

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Organizing institution

Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)

  • https://www.cepal.org
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Observatory(ies)

Gender Equality Observatory for Latin America and the Caribbean

Subsidiary body(ies)

Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

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