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What is the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean?

27 Nov 2025 | Infographic

The Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, one of the subsidiary bodies of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), is the main United Nations intergovernmental forum on women’s rights and gender equality in the region. It is organized by ECLAC, as the Secretariat of the Conference, and, since 2020, in coordination with the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women). It is convened regularly, at intervals of no more than three years, to analyze the regional and subregional situation regarding women’s a…

What is the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean?

27 Nov 2025 | Infographic

The Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, one of the subsidiary bodies of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), is the foremost intergovernmental forum of the United Nations on women’s rights and gender equality in the region. Its sessions are organized by ECLAC, as secretariat of the Conference, and since 2020 in coordinationwith the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women). It is convened on a regular basis, at least every three years, to analyse the status of women’s autonomy and rights at the…

What is The Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean?

24 Feb 2025 | Infographic

The Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, one of the subsidiary bodies of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), is the foremost intergovernmental forum of the United Nations on women’s rights and gender equality in the region. Its sessions are organized by ECLAC, as secretariat of the Conference, and since 2020 in coordinationwith the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women). It is convened on a regular basis, at least every three years, to analyse the status of women’s autonomy and rights at the…

Gender Equality Bulletin - No 3. International trade as an opportunity to promote women’s economic autonomy: contributions for reflection in Latin America and the Caribbean

10 Jun 2024 | Infographic

The countries of Latin America and the Caribbean face structural challenges related to the region’s pattern of productive and trade specialization; and these are compounded by persistent gender inequalities, both in labour markets and in the social organization of care. Poorly diversified production and vulnerability to external shocks make it more difficult to achieve gender equality. These factors detract from labour market dynamism, restrict the exploitation of capacities and lead to an unequal distribution of the benefits of growth and the costs of economic adjustments. Moreover, violence …

Gender Equality Bulletin - No 2. Design and implementation of the District Care System of Bogotá: a political, social and fiscal covenant

6 Mar 2024 | Infographic

In recent years, cascading crises, including the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, have highlighted the unjust social organization of care and the need for a new development model centred on care and the sustainability of life (ECLAC, 2022). These crises present an opportunity to design bold policies and to transition to a care society that prioritizes people and the planet (ECLAC, 2022). In the Buenos Aires Commitment, adopted at the fifteenth session of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, the member States of the Economic Commission for Latin America a…

Gender Equality Bulletin - No 1. Child marriages and early unions: inequality and poverty among women, girls and adolescents in Latin America and the Caribbean

13 Dec 2023 | Infographic

Child, early and forced marriages and unions are defined as a union in which at least one of the parties is under the age of 18. The overwhelming majority of formal and informal child marriages and unions involve girls, although in some cases their male spouses are also under 18. As stated in the Joint general recommendation No. 31 of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women/general comment No. 18 of the Committee on the Rights of the Child on harmful practices, and Human Rights Council resolution 29/8 of 2 July 2015, on strengthening efforts to prevent and eliminate ch…

Repository on time use in Latin America and the Caribbean

22 Sep 2023 | Infographic

Information systems: transforming data into information, information into knowledge and knowledge into political decisions. Pillar 9 of the Montevideo Strategy for Implementation of the Regional Gender Agenda within the Sustainable Development Framework by 2030.…

Femicides or feminicides that occurred in 2020 in Latin America and the Caribbean

24 Nov 2021 | Infographic

Femicide is a problem that continues to affect thousands of women and girls each year in Latin America and the Caribbean, despite the fact that it has increased its visibility and the pressure exerted by the massive movements of women who have expressed their rejection of violence against women. gender in different countries.…

Niñas y adolescentes en América Latina y el Caribe

11 Oct 2016 | Infographic

Gender equality starts right from early childhood, meaning urgent action must be taken to eradicate all forms of discrimination that affect girl children and adolescents in the region.…

Femicide

16 Nov 2015 | Infographic

Femicide is the most dramatic expression of violence against women. According to official data from the region’s countries compiled by the Gender Equality Observatory for Latin America and the Caribbean of ECLAC, 1903 women were murdered because of their gender in fifteen Latin American countries and three Caribbean nations in 2014.…

Violence against women

11 Nov 2015 | Infographic

Violence against women in Latin America and the Caribbean must be addressed comprehensively by States, taking into account factors of economic, social and cultural inequality that operate in society and in the power relations between men and women.…

Women in Senior Positions in Major Latin American Companies

27 Feb 2015 | Infographic

Despite the rapid incorporation of women into the labor market since the 1970s, inequalities remain in the quality of jobs and access to them. In the region this is clearly manifested in the limited presence of women in executive positions at major companies. ECLAC reviewed the situation of 72 such businesses.…

Women’s Participation in Politics

29 Aug 2014 | Infographic

Five female presidents govern today in Latin American and Caribbean countries, and the number of women legislators, judges and mayors has increased in recent years. But these leaders represent no more than 26% of the total, on average, according to data from ECLAC’s Gender Equality Observatory. The Commission provides here the latest data on women’s participation in different spheres of political power.…

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