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New Public Policies Are Proposed to Eradicate Racism and Discrimination in Guatemala

10 Dec 2018 | News

Guatemala must move toward a new generation of public policies that recognize ethnic diversity in order to eradicate racism and discrimination against indigenous peoples, Wilson Romero and Ana Patricia Orantes recommend in the Study on Racism, Discrimination and Inequality Gaps in Guatemala (in Spanish only), published recently with the collaboration of the Presidential Commission on Discrimination and Racism against the Indigenous Peoples of Guatemala (CODIRSA). According to the authors, the study’s objective is to render visible the social inequality resulting from racism and racial discrimi…

New ECLAC Publication Analyzes Increase in Unwanted Fertility among Latin American Adolescent Girls

12 Dec 2017 | News

Latin America and the Caribbean must resolutely move ahead with policies and programs that guarantee adolescents’ exercise of their sexual and reproductive rights and offer services adapted to today’s adolescents and to the new conditions in which they exercise their sexuality, according to a new publication by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). The study Unwanted Fertility among Latin American Adolescent Girls: An Increase that Challenges Sexual and Reproductive Health and the Exercise of Rights sustains that while some researchers consider this fertility to …

Authorities and Civil-Society Representatives Discussed Situation of People with Disabilities

2 Jun 2014 | News

The situation of people with disabilities in Latin America and the Caribbean was analysed at a meeting held at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile, on 30 May. At the event, representatives of organizations for people with disabilities and their families took part in a dialogue with observers from the Government of Chile, local human-rights organizations and United Nations system agencies. The aim of the meeting, which was opened by Antonio Prado, Deputy Executive Secretary of ECLAC, Mauro Tamayo Rozas, Director of the Chile…

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