United Nations
VIII Session of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean
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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.
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The eighth session of the Regional Conference had the function of evaluating the progress made in the region since the seventh session and since the Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing, 1995) and of making recommendations as to how to speed up the process of change with regard to the status of women, in accordance with the provisions of the Regional Programme of Action for the Women of Latin America and the Caribbean, 1995-2001, adopted at the sixth session of the Regional Conference (Mar del Plata, September 1994).
In addition, this session of the Conference served as the regional preparatory meeting for the special session of the General Assembly entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century”, which was held in New York in June 2000.
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 twentyfirst century
6. Consideration and adoption of the Conference agreements
7. Other matters.
Related content
Meeting documents
- LIMA CONSENSUS (Page 17 of the Report of the Eighth Session of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean)
- Report of the Eighth Session of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Provisional agenda
- Annotated provisional agenda and organization of the Eighth Session of the Regional Conference
- The challenge of gender equity and human rights on the threshold of the twenty-first century
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Organizing institution
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
- https://www.cepal.org
- 56 222100000
