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President of Uruguay to participate in the opening of the XIII Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

19 Oct 2016 | Announcement

The thirteenth session of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean will be opened in Montevideo, Uruguay, at 4.30 pm on Tuesday 25 October 2016. The opening ceremony will be attended by the President of Uruguay, Tabaré Vázquez; the Minister of Social Development, Marina Arismendi; and the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena. Immediately thereafter, the Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Babatunde Osotimehin; and the Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Ent…

ECLAC and Norway Strengthen Cooperation Ties During a Visit to the Organization’s Headquarters in Chile

13 Sep 2016 | News

On Tuesday, September 13 in Santiago, Chile, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, received a delegation of parliamentarians belonging to the Norwegian Parliament’s Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defense, with whom she shared the United Nations organization’s work regarding implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in the region. The delegation was headed by Anniken Huitfeldt, Chair of the Committee, and was made up of 10 members of Parliament from various political parties. They were accom…

A New Chapter in the Regional Gender Agenda Will Be Written in October in Montevideo

1 Sep 2016 | Announcement

Focused on the opportunities and challenges regarding gender equality and women’s autonomy posed by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the XIII Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean will take place on October 25-28, 2016. The meeting will bring together representatives of governments, civil society and United Nations organizations. The gathering—organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and Uruguay’s government (through the Foreign Ministry and the National Institute of Women)—will mark 40 years of building a regional g…

Senior Government Officials Call for Greater Autonomy and Gender Equality across the Caribbean

27 Jul 2016 | News

High-level government officials and senior international gender experts are calling for more to be done to ensure the economic and social autonomy of Caribbean women. Within the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the opportunities and challenges faced by women as against men in such areas as employment, education, human rights and political leadership speak to the issues of equality which are at the heart of discussions being held at the Caribbean preparatory meeting of the XIII Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, taking place on 26-27 July 201…

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

21 Apr 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 and Argentina’s Ministry of Social Development Sign Cooperation Agreement

18 Apr 2016 | News

Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), and Carolina Stanley, Argentina’s Minister of Social Development, signed on Monday, April 18 a Framework Agreement of Technical Cooperation between both institutions with the aim of facilitating joint activities. The agreement includes developing indicators and information systems for the design of public policies; assessing policies, instruments of support and institutions to foster sub-national areas; carrying out seminars, conferences and courses; and the training and exchange of staf…

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

1 Mar 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…

Latin America and the Caribbean Adopts Regional Instrument to Harmonize Time-Use Surveys

3 Dec 2015 | News

The recently approved Classification of Time-Use Activities for Latin America (CAUTAL) enables countries to obtain a comprehensive and organized view of the activities that people carry out and the time they dedicate to each of these, providing in this way inputs and evidence for the formulation of public policies on gender equality. This tool for planning, processing, presenting and analyzing time-use surveys was adopted during the eighth meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas (SCA) of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), which took place in Quit…

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…

Latin American and Norwegian Perspective on Public Policies for Equality Will Be Analyzed in a Seminar

26 Mar 2015 | Announcement

Public policies geared toward equality in the labor market, education and social protection, among other areas, will be examined by government officials and academics during a seminar to be held on Monday, March 30 and Tuesday 31, 2015 at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile. The high-level seminar “Paths Toward Equality and Development: Latin America-Norway Dialogue” is organized by ECLAC and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It will be opened on March 30, at 0900 a.m. by Hege Araldsen, Norwegian Ambassador to Chil…

Secretary-General of the United Nations visits Paraguay and Chile

24 Feb 2015 | Announcement

The Secretary-General will travel for an official visit to Asuncion, in Paraguay, on Tuesday, 24 February, before heading to Santiago of Chile on 27 February. In Paraguay, the Secretary-General will hold bilateral meetings with President Horacio Cartes and Foreign Minister Eladio Loizaga, as well as other senior officials and civil society representatives. In Chile, the Secretary-General will attend the high-level event on “Women in power and decision-making: Building a different world”, aimed at reflecting the last 20 years since the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. The Secr…

Authorities and Experts Warn about Digital Exclusion of Rural Women and Youth

11 Dec 2014 | News

Authorities, experts and representatives from Chilean farmer organizations met today at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile to discuss policies aimed at overcoming inequalities in the use of information and communications technology (ICT) in rural areas of Chile and Latin America and the Caribbean, especially among women and young people. The seminar ICT in the Rural World: A New Way of Innovating for Women and Young People was organized by ECLAC and Chile’s Foundation for Agricultural Innovation (FIA). Participants in the …

Measuring and Reducing Carbon Footprints Would Allow Companies to Improve Their Insertion in Global Trade

11 Dec 2014 | News

Latin American and Caribbean companies could improve their insertion in global trade if they measure their carbon footprints and took action to reduce them in their productive processes, ECLAC representatives said this Thursday, December 11, during a side event of the 20th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 20), which is being held in Lima, Peru. At the meeting, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) presented the results of its project on carbon footprint and food exports in the region, in which eight countr…

ECLAC meeting secures commitment to Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action

3 Dec 2014 | News

The Caribbean technical meeting on the Beijing +20 review and appraisal of the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action took place at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago Chile, on 14 - 15 November 2014. The meeting focused attention on the 20th anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action, and provided a forum for reflection on the ongoing gender concerns facing the Caribbean subregion during the past two decades. Participants from 10 member and two associate member states of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Com…

ECLAC Underlines Progress in Gender Statistics in the Region

5 Nov 2014 | News

The availability of gender statistics has taken a leap in Latin America and the Caribbean, giving visibility to women’s issues and allowing the elaboration of public policies, said today Sonia Montaño, Director of the Division for Gender Affairs of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), during the opening of the XV International Meeting on Gender Statistics of Aguascalientes in Mexico. This annual meeting, which ends on Friday, November 7, is organized by ECLAC, Mexico’s National Institute for Women (INMUJERES), the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (…

Region's Countries Will Review Progress on Women's Rights 20 Years after the Beijing Conference

1 Sep 2014 | Announcement

In 2015, the international community will commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing, 1995) and the approval of the Platform for Action adopted by 189 governments. Latin American and Caribbean governments will meet in November in Chile with members of civil society and organizations from the United Nations system to review the commitments made then and the coordination with the post-2015 development agenda. This special session dedicated to Beijing +20 will be held as part of the 51st Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regio…

UN Women Calls on Global Citizens to Bring Gender Equality into Focus

22 May 2014 | News

New York - UN Women today launched a major campaign in the lead-up to the commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the historic Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. A year of activities around the world will aim to mobilize governments and citizens alike to picture a world where gender equality is a reality and to join a global conversation on empowering women to empower humanity. Events will focus on achievements and gaps in gender equality and women's empowerment since 189 governments adopted the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. This visionary blueprint pa…

ECLAC and Peru's Government Launch Political Dialogue to Boost Women's Economic Autonomy

18 Dec 2013 | News

A few months before the thirty-fifth session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) is to be held in Lima, Peru, representatives of the Peruvian government and officials from the United Nations organization agreed to launch the project "Political Dialogue for the Economic Empowerment and Autonomy of Women." The project -which will get technical assistance from ECLAC, specifically from the Economic Development and Gender Affairs divisions- aims to bring to light the situation of Peruvian women in the productive, labor and economic arenas and identify public poli…

Civil Society Organizations Presented Index of Women's Well-being

17 Oct 2013 | News

"Without data, there can be no public policies", stated Sonia Montaño, Director of the ECLAC Gender Affairs Division, at the presentation of ISO-Quito Reloaded, an instrument developed by the Marcosur Feminist Association to include indicators on women's social well-being, economic and political parity and compliance with legislative commitments on gender equality in the region. At the side event held on 16 October during the twelfth session of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, which is being held in the Dominican Republic, Lucy Garrido, Magdalena Gutiérrez …

Santo Domingo Will Be the Women's Capital in October

1 Oct 2013 | News

The situation of Latin American and Caribbean women is once more at the heart of regional debate thanks to the meeting organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) to review fulfilment of national gender equality commitments in a few weeks time. The twelfth session of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean will be held from 15 to 18 October 2013 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, to bring together authorities, experts, international officials and representatives from civil society and the business sector. Organized b…

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