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UN Women and ECLAC promote the development of Comprehensive Care Systems in Latin America and the Caribbean

16 November 2021 | News

The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) presented the report Towards the construction of comprehensive care systems in Latin America and the Caribbean. Elements for implementation, in an event organized with the support of the Global Alliance for Care. The document aims to contribute to the analysis and reflection to advance in the implementation of Comprehensive Care Systems and to move towards a Care Society that prioritizes the sustainability of life, placing it at…

Alicia Bárcena: We Must Pick Up the Pace Toward Economic, Climate and Gender Justice, and Transition to a Care Society

6 July 2021 | News

“We must pick up the pace toward economic, climate and gender justice, and transition to a care society,” remarked Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) during a virtual meeting organized in parallel to the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF), which meets annually under the auspices of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). “We do not want to return to where we were before the pandemic; we need structural change. This is an opportunity for transformational recovery, with gender equality and env…

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

3 December 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…

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