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Alicia Bárcena Expresses her Condolences over the Death of UNFPA’s Executive Director

5 June 2017 | News

Santiago, 5 June 2017 Dear Osotimehin family, Colleagues and friends, It is with the deepest sadness that I have learned of the premature passing of our colleague Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and staunch ally of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), especially in its work for girls, women and youth. These grievous tidings come as a sad blow for the whole of Latin America and the Caribbean, a region to which Dr. Osotimehin devoted continuous attention and care. In this bitter hour, we would like to convey o…

Lawyers from 18 Countries in the Region Attend United Nations Course in International Law at ECLAC

26 April 2017 | News

Lawyers and legal specialists from 18 countries in the region kicked off on Wednesday, April 26 the United Nations Regional Course in International Law for Latin America and the Caribbean, which will be held at ECLAC’s facilities in Santiago, Chile. This four-week program is being attended by 22 scholars and prestigious professors who will address various subjects of international law. The course is organized by the Codification Division of the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs, in collaboration with the government of Chile and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (…

Applications Open for the Eighteenth Session of the ECLAC Summer School

10 February 2017 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has announced the start of the application process for the 2017 Summer School on Latin American Economies, a training programme for young researchers interested in studying Latin America’s development process. The Summer School’s eighteenth session will be held from 20 July to 8 September 2017 at the headquarters of the United Nations Regional Commission in Santiago, Chile. The registration period ends on 10 April and the list of selected candidates will be published on 17 April. The Summer School is organized by the ECLAC Di…

UN Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions Meets at ECLAC

9 February 2017 | News

The United Nations Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions met for the first time at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile, on 6 and 7 February. The purpose of the meeting was to review its regular work programme and to hold discussions with the regional commission’s senior officers. The Committee’s ten-person delegation was led by its Chairman, the Mexican diplomat Carlos Ruiz Massieu, and by its Vice-Chairman, Babou Sene of Senegal. They were received at ECLAC by Executive Secretary Alicia Bárcena, Depu…

What Do We Mean When We Talk of Equality?

20 May 2016 | News

Equality, understood as the full entitlement to rights, is the skyline to be reached by the region’s development model because this principle, along with freedom, is the most humane form of taking responsibility for the tasks of modernity, Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), and Antonio Prado, Deputy Executive Secretary, say in the book The Imperative of Equality: For Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (Spanish only), which was just published by the regional organization and Siglo XXI Editores. What…

ECLAC Will Present in Mexico Reflection on Future Development of Latin America and the Caribbean in Light of the 2030 Agenda

21 April 2016 | Announcement

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will hold its most important biennial meeting in Mexico City from May 23 to May 27, 2016, where officials will present its 45 member and 13 associated states a report on its activities and will offer governments a reflection upon development strategies in the context of the commitments contained in the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The organization’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, indicated that in the thirty-sixth session participants will debate the region’s economic, social and environmenta…

ECLAC’s Summer School Accepts Applications for its Seventeenth Edition

7 March 2016 | Announcement

Young researchers interested in studying the Latin American development process can apply to the seventeenth session of the Summer School on Latin American Economies, organized annually by the Division of Production, Productivity and Management of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). The registration period ends on April 18 and the list of the selected candidates will be published on April 27. The course, which will be held at ECLAC’s headquarters in the Chilean capital, is free of charge but participants are responsible for the costs associated with their trave…

Mexico Will Be the Venue of ECLAC’s Most Important Gathering

1 March 2016 | Announcement

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will hold its most important biennial meeting in Mexico City from May 23 to May 27, 2016, where officials will present to its 45 member and 13 associate countries a report on recent activities and will offer governments a reflection upon development strategies in the context of the commitments contained in the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals. Mexico’s Foreign Minister, Claudia Ruiz Massieu, and ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, signed the agreement on 12 February through which Mexico becomes the ve…

Recapping this Year through the Lens of ECLAC

29 December 2015 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) published in 2015 diverse studies regarding the economic, social and environmental situation in the region, including six flagship annual reports that provided statistical information, timely analysis and short- and medium-term outlooks on issues as varied as the expansion of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the behavior of foreign investment and international trade, and the evolution of poverty and inequality. On January 26, ECLAC presented the Social Panorama of Latin America 2014, in which it indicated that 167 million people …

Delegation from Finland’s Parliament Visited ECLAC’s Headquarters

14 October 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…

Norway Will Join ECLAC as a Member State

30 September 2015 | Announcement

The Kingdom of Norway will join the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) as a member State during a ceremony to be held next Sunday 4th October at the commission’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile. In the ceremony Norway’s flag will be raised for the first time in the yard which brings together all the banners of ECLAC’s member States. The event will be attended by Tone Skogen, Norwegian Undersecretary of Foreign Relations. Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of ECLAC, will preside over the meeting at 12:30 p.m. She will officially welcome Norway to this regiona…

Elyx visits today the UN Headquarters in Chile

17 August 2015 | News

On the third day of the journey, Elyx arrived in Santiago, Chile, and was welcomed with open arms by UN Staff who showed the way to the ECLAC headquarters. The 500-year-old city is home to the regional hub of United Nations (UN) activities in South America. This is the regional headquarters for the UN – called the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC or CEPAL in Spanish). They coordinate the economic development efforts, strengthen economic ties and promote social development throughout the region. Elyx enjoyed the tour of the building he only knew from pictures on In…

Elyx is visiting Chile on 17 of August

14 August 2015 | News

Elyx, “digital ambassador” for the United Nations (UN) is visiting Chile on 17 August. This visit is part of a 70-day virtual trip around the world to highlight UN efforts and build momentum for the organization’s 70th anniversary. While in Chile, you can follow Elyx’s journey exploring the country on www.Elyx70Days.org and through social media #UN70 #Elyx70Days. From Elyx’s start in Paris on 15 August to a final stop at the UN Headquarters in New York on 24 October, visitors can check daily where Elyx has travelled. Who is Elyx? Elyx has been helping the UN highlight international obse…

Iconic ECLAC Building, Protagonist at MoMA

27 March 2015 | News

The iconic building that houses the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL) in Santiago, Chile, will be one of the protagonists in an exhibition on modern Latin American architecture, opening March 29 at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. The exhibit Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955 – 1980, which will run through July 19, will include more than 500 works, including pictures, drawings, blueprints and videos of constructions that are representative of modernism in the region. ECLAC’s headquarters, opened in 1966, was inspired by the architecture …

ECLAC’s Summer School Accepts Applications and Launches Call for Papers

23 February 2015 | Announcement

The applications process for the sixteenth session of the Summer School on Latin American Economies began on Monday, February 23. The training program is organized annually by the Division of Production, Productivity and Management of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), and it is aimed at young researchers interested in studying the Latin American development process. The registration period ends April 15. The course, which will be held at ECLAC’s headquarters in the Chilean capital, is free of charge but participants are responsible for the costs associated wi…

Rights of Access in Environmental Matters Are Key to Greater Inclusion

4 November 2014 | News

Representatives from the region’s signatory countries of Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration—which promotes access to information, participation and justice in environmental matters—began a three-day meeting this Tuesday, November 4, at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile. The Fourth meeting on the focal points appointed by the Governments of the signatory countries of the Declaration on the application of Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean was opened by ECL…

ECLAC presents a forward-looking document about global transformations in Latin America

13 January 2014 | News

The promotion of long-term regional thinking is an imperative for Latin America that can't be put off, Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of ECLAC, and Michael Shifter, President of the Inter-American Dialogue, agreed in the prologue of the document Global Trends and Latin America's Future, by Chilean Sergio Bitar, which will be presented this Tuesday, January 14, 2014, at the Mexican Embassy in Santiago, Chile. Along with the author and the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the presentation will be attended by the Ambassador of Mexico…

Germany's Government Seeks ECLAC's Support for Regional Initiative on Sustainable Management of Mining Resources

26 December 2013 | News

The First Secretary of Economic, Technological-Scientific and Cooperation Matters at Germany's Embassy in Chile, Annette Weerth, visited the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, on Friday, December 20. That day she delivered an official note to the director of the United Nations organization's Programme Planning and Operations Division, Raúl García-Buchaca, in which Germany's Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) requested ECLAC's support to implement a regional cooperation project for the sustainable managem…

CEPAL Review Celebrates 37 Years Supporting Research on the Development of Latin America and the Caribbean

2 December 2013 | News

With over 110 editions published in Spanish and English (as well as special issues in French, Portuguese and Mandarin), the CEPAL Review constantly receives submissions from researchers in Latin America and the Caribbean and elsewhere analysing the many challenges currently facing the region and the suitable policies for tackling them. More than 1,000 free-access articles have been published throughout its 37 years and these attest to its focused vision of development that covers not only the economic dimension but also considers social, education, gender, environment and all topics …

Secretary-General Appoints Juan Somavía of Chile Special Adviser on Interregional Policy Cooperation

8 November 2013 | News

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced on 7 November 2013 the appointment of Juan Somavía of Chile, former Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO), as his Special Adviser on Interregional Policy Cooperation. Mr. Somavía will help develop a two-year strategy of policy cooperation on selected strategic issues among the United Nations regional commissions based on ongoing activities and will contribute to facilitate interregional policy cooperation initiatives. Mr. Somavía will perform his tasks based in Santiago, Chile, at the offices of th…

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