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Women live globally longer, healthier lives with better education, reveals new UN report

20 Oct 2015 | News

(New York, 20 October) The lives of women and girls around the world have improved in several areas over the last 20 years, according to the new United Nations report The World’s Women 2015 launched today. Coming on the heels of the recently adopted Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), this new set of data on women and girls worldwide brings into sharp perspective the need for gender equality outlined in Goal 5. “We cannot achieve our 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development without full and equal rights for half of the world’s population, in law and in practice,” said UN Secretary-Gener…

Policies against Poverty and Inequality Will Be Analyzed at Conference on Social Development in Lima

19 Oct 2015 | Announcement

With the aim of promoting and supporting the strengthening of the region’s social development policies, as well as boosting cooperation and the exchange of experiences among countries, the Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean will take place on November 2-4, 2015 in Lima, Peru. The event, which will be held at Lima’s Conventions Center, is convened by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the Government of Peru and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The registration for participants is already available on the…

Delegation from Finland’s Parliament Visited ECLAC’s Headquarters

14 Oct 2015 | News

A group of approximately 30 parliamentarians and experts from the Finnish Parliament’s Committee for the Future visited the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile on Tuesday, October 13, 2015. There they met with the institution’s Deputy Executive Secretary, Antonio Prado, and learned about the United Nations organization’s main lines of work in the region. The delegation was led by Carl Haglund, President of the Finnish Parliament’s Committee for the Future, and included various members of that body as well as education experts f…

New Global Financial Regulations May Have Unintended Consequences on Developing Countries

8 Sep 2015 | News

The new rules and standards that emerged in the aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2008 seeking to stabilize the global economy, may have had unintended consequences on emerging and developing countries, a new ECLAC study states. The report Global financial rulemaking and small economies, prepared by Inés Bustillo and Raquel Artecona, Chief and Economic Affairs Officer, respectively, of ECLAC’s office in Washington D.C., indicates that the lack of representation of emerging and developing economies in standard-setting world bodies may affect the effectiveness of global financial…

Experts Call for New Rules to be Defined on Financing for Development

14 Jul 2015 | News

There is an urgent need to define new rules for financing sustainable development in the world, participants in the side event Regional Perspectives on Implementing an Ambitious, Transformative Sustainable Development Agenda agreed. The event was hosted on Tuesday, July 14 by the five United Nations regional commissions, of which ECLAC is one, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. During the event—which took place in the framework of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, being held through July 16 in Ethiopia—the U.S. economist and Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz called for “…

Ministers and Experts Will Debate in Addis Ababa the Challenges to Finance the Development of Latin America and the Caribbean

8 Jul 2015 | Announcement

Ministers and senior officials from Latin America and the Caribbean, along with Nobel prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz and the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, will participate in an event on the challenges faced by the region to finance its development, in the framework of the international conference on this matter that will take place on July 13-16 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The event, which will address the domestic mobilization of resources and the international financial governance from the perspective of mi…

ECLAC Highlights Strategic Regional Action in Defining Sustainable Development Goals for the Caribbean

24 Jun 2015 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) subregional headquarters for the Caribbean remains committed to providing assistance to Caribbean countries, as the region prepares a set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be included in the United Nations Post-2015 Development Agenda, declared today its Director, Diane Quarless. The head of the ECLAC Caribbean office opened the Symposium on Sustainable Development Goals for the Caribbean within the Post-2015 Development Agenda in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, organized by the UN Commission, with the support of …

Trinidad and Tobago will host a Symposium on Sustainable Development Goals for the Caribbean

22 Jun 2015 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean will convene a Symposium on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for the Caribbean within the post-2015 Development Agenda in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago from 24-25 June. This meeting, supported by the Caribbean Development Bank, brings together Ministers and senior policy makers in the fields of planning and development, the environment, and social affairs, to consider among the SDGs those goals that are central to the sustainable development needs of the Caribbean. Specifical…

ECLAC and UNAIDS Sign Agreement to Support the Regional Response to HIV/AIDS

24 Mar 2015 | News

With the goal of promoting and facilitating cooperation on matters related to the regional response to HIV/AIDS, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the UNAIDS Regional Support Team for Latin America signed a memorandum of understanding this month in Santiago, Chile. The agreement, signed by ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, and the Regional Director of the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), César Núñez, states that both institutions share the commitment to promote universal access to prevention, treatment, care and support, reduce…

Secretary-General meets staff at ECLAC’s headquarters

4 Mar 2015 | News

Staff members from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) thanked United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for his support in rebuilding the organization’s headquarters, an icon of modern Latin American architecture, after an earthquake that affected central and southern Chile in February 2010. Ban Ki-moon visited Santiago on an official mission from February 26 to March 1. During his third official visit to Chile, Mr. Ban participated in a high-level event organized by UN Women and Chile’s government, and his agenda included a town-hall meeting at ECLAC’s hea…

Latin America and China Share Urbanization Challenges, Experts Agree

26 Nov 2014 | News

China and Latin America and the Caribbean region have common opportunities and challenges in terms of urbanization, which opens significant room for cooperation, experts agreed today at the inauguration of the Forum on Sustainable Urban Development in China and Latin America and the Caribbean at ECLAC’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile. The event was organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) along with the Institute of Latin American Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (ILAS-CASS), with the support of CAF-Development Bank of Latin America. Th…

European Union and ECLAC Underline Importance of Strengthening Bi-regional Cooperation in Complex Global Context

1 Sep 2025 | News

The European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, and Acting Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Mario Cimoli, underscored the importance of strengthening and deepening their ties of bi-regional cooperation in the complex global context caused by the armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine, during a bilateral meeting held today at the United Nations regional commission’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile. Josep Borrell and Mario Cimoli shared their views on topics of mutual interest, such as th…

European Union and ECLAC Discuss Deepening of Bilateral Cooperation in Brussels

1 Sep 2025 | News

Federica Mogherini, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, and Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), discussed the deepening of bi-regional cooperation during a meeting held in Brussels, Belgium today. At the meeting, both representatives talked about the economic situation in Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as the uncertainties posed by the global economy. They also explored the different channels for joint cooperation and shared broad and comprehensive regional visions. Also par…

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