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The Challenges of Ageing Demand that We Move Towards a Care Society

29 Oct 2025 | Op-ed

October 29, which marks the International Day of Care and Support, urges us to take action to forge a society that would prioritize the care of people and the planet for a better future. The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has documented a care crisis characterized by growing demand for care – fueled by population ageing and exacerbated by the effects of climate change – that far exceeds the services, infrastructure and people needed to provide it. This crisis exposes the fact that care, which is indispensable for the sustainability of life, continues to be carr…

Care Is the Future: Latin America and the Caribbean Launch the Decade of the Care Society

30 Sep 2025 | Op-ed

(Photo: An adult woman is assisted by a nurse. Credit: FG Trade Latin Getty Images). Imagine every neighborhood in the Andean highlands or the Caribbean islands offering affordable childcare, day centers for older adults, safe transportation, and equal leisure time for every family member. That horizon—where care is a shared right rather than an unrecognized burden—drew closer in August when the Tlatelolco Commitment was adopted at the 16th Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, held in Mexico City. The agreement affirms that giving care, receiving care, and self-care…

Latin America Should Take the Long View on Tariffs

23 Apr 2025 | Op-ed

America’s tariff onslaught is less a passing whim than an attempt to reconfigure global economic and political forces. In such a volatile environment, Latin America and the Caribbean must mitigate immediate risks while also implementing far-sighted measures that reinforce the region’s commitment to structural change. SANTIAGO – On April 2, the United States announced a raft of “reciprocal” tariffs, ranging from an additional 10% to 50%, on imported goods. President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff blitz, which left no country unscathed, was the biggest shock to hit the global trading syst…

Accelerating Progress Toward Substantive Equality and the Care Society

8 Mar 2025 | Op-ed

In 1975, the United Nations commemorated International Women’s Day for the first time, recognizing centuries of women’s struggles for equality, development, and peace. Latin America and the Caribbean have made significant progress in achieving legal equality. Today, women have on average, more years of education than men and are increasingly occupying decision-making positions. However, gaps persist in all countries. In the region, female labour force participation remains low: only 50% of women participate in the labour market, compared to 75% of men. Moreover, their participation is marked b…

Road safety is everyone’s business: Joint Op-Ed

17 Feb 2025 | Op-ed

If you had to guess the leading cause of death for children and young people globally, what would you say? Malaria? Pneumonia? Suicide? They’re all up there, but no, it’s road crashes. Cars have been around for over 120 years, and we know how to prevent these tragedies. Yet road crashes still claim more than two lives every minute, and nearly 1.2 million lives every year. If these deaths were caused by a virus, it would be called a pandemic and the world would scramble to develop vaccines to prevent them. And yet reducing road deaths has long been overlooked, misunderstood …

Securing Greater and Sustained Access to Long-term, Low-cost Finance for Small Island Developing States (SIDS)

11 Jun 2024 | Op-ed

The leadership of the United Nations and the wider international community, including over fifty Heads of Government and Heads of State, are focusing on the smallest and most vulnerable member countries this week with the Fourth International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS4) in Antigua and Barbuda. This meeting reviews the sustainable development progress of SIDS over the past decade and adopts a new action platform for the next ten years. Of the 57 countries identified as SIDS by the UN, 29 are in the Caribbean, comprising 16 member States and 13 territories. The Economic …

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