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

Event

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The 65th Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean was held in hybrid format on 11 and 12 October 2023, at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) headquarters in Santiago, Chile

Event information

Date:

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Event type:

Presiding officers

Participation:

By registration

At the sixty-fifth Meeting of the Presiding Officers, delegations exchanged views on the topics to be discussed at the XVI Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean (México, 2025). 

In addition, a special regional consultation session was held prior to the 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW68)

This Meeting was organized by ECLAC, 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 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 foremost intergovernmental forum of the United Nations on women’s rights and gender equality in the region. 

Agreements 

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-eighth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW68)

Live transmission

October 11, 2023

October 12, 2023

Programme of work:

October 11, 2023

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

07:00 - 07:30
  • Daniel Titelman, Chief of the Economic Development Division of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
  • 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
October 11, 2023

Adoption of the agenda

07:30 - 07:35
October 11, 2023

Panel discussion on synergies between the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean and other subsidiary bodies of ECLAC

07:35 - 08:45

Moderator: Jimena Arias, Social Affairs Officer in the Office of the Secretary of the Commission

Comments:

  • Antonia Orellana, Minister of Women’s Affairs and Gender Equity of Chile
  • Vindhya Persaud, Minister of Human Services and Social Security of Guyana (virtual)

Statements by delegations

October 11, 2023

Coffee break

08:45 - 09:00
October 11, 2023

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

09:00 - 10:00
  • 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 Americas and the Caribbean Regional Office of UN-Women, in its capacity as administrative body, by Cecilia Alemany, Deputy Regional Director for the Americas and the Caribbean of UN-Women
  • Rocío Rosero, member of the Coalición Nacional de Mujeres del Ecuador, as a representative of women’s and feminist organizations

Statements by delegations

October 11, 2023

Break

10:00 - 11:30
October 11, 2023

Initiative for a biregional pact for care between Latin America and the Caribbean and the European Union

11:30 - 12:15
  • María Cristina Perceval, Special Representative for Feminist Foreign Policy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship of Argentina
  • Irene Montero, Minister of Equality of the Government of Spain
  • Leire Pajín, Chair of the EU-LAC Foundation (by video)
  • Lucy Garrido, Coordinator of Cotidiano Mujer and member of Articulación Feminista Marcosur

Statements by delegations

Presentations:

Pacto birregional cuidados draft 231004. Documento circulado a las delegaciones de Gobiernos a solicitud de la Presidencia de la Mesa Directiva de la Conferencia Regional sobre la Mujer de América Latina y el Caribe


Biregional pact for care draft 231004. Document circulated to Government delegations at the request of the Chair of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean


October 11, 2023

Discussion on the themes of the sixteenth session of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean (Mexico, 2025)

12:15 - 14:00

Document presented by Ana Güezmes García, Chief of the Division for Gender Affairs of ECLAC

Comments:

  • Ayelén Mazzina, Minister for Women, Gender and Diversity of Argentina, the country serving as Chair of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Nadine Gasman, President of the National Women’s Institute (INMUJERES) of Mexico (virtual)

Statements by delegations

October 12, 2023

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

07:00 - 08:45

Introductory remarks:

  • María del Carmen Squeff, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Argentina to the United Nations and Vice-Chair of the Bureau of the sixty-eighth session of the Commission on the Status of Women designated by the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States (virtual)

Presentations by:

Panel 1: Inequality, poverty, social protection and care
  • Mayra Jiménez, Minister for Women’s Affairs of the Dominican Republic
  • Rosane da Silva, National Secretary for Economic Autonomy and Care Policies in the Ministry of Women of Brazil (in-person) and Laís Abramo, National Secretary for Care and Family, Ministry of Social Development and Assistance, Family Affairs and the Fight against Hunger of Brazil (virtual)
  • Dulce Patricia Torres Sandoval, member of the Coordinadora Nacional de Mujeres Indígenas (CONAMI), representing the Continental Network of Indigenous Women of the Americas (ECMIA)
  • Myriam Moïse, Associate Professor at Université des Antilles in Martinique, General Secretary of Universities Caribbean

Discussion and statements by delegations

Presentations:

October 12, 2023

Coffee break

08:45 - 09:00
October 12, 2023

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

09:00 - 10:00
Panel 2: Institutional architecture and financing
  • Juana Herrera, Minister for Women’s Affairs of Paraguay

  • Andrea Simon, Principal Delegate for Barbados to the Inter-American Commission of Women, Ministry of People’s Empowerment and Elder Affairs of Barbados (virtual)
  • Corina Rodríguez, Researcher at the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) of Argentina and member of the Executive Committee of Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) (virtual)

Discussion and statements by delegations

October 12, 2023

Break

10:00 - 11:30
October 12, 2023

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

11:40 - 12:30

Discussion and statements by delegations

October 12, 2023

Other matters

12:30 - 13:00
October 12, 2023

Consideration and adoption of agreements

13:00 - 13:15
October 12, 2023

Closing session

13:15 - 13:30
  • Daniel Titelman, Chief of the Economic Development Division of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
  • María-Noel Vaeza, Regional Director for the Americas and the Caribbean of UN-Women
  • Ayelén Mazzina, Minister for Women, Gender and Diversity of Argentina