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Latin America and the Caribbean Makes Headway with Concrete Actions for Gender Equality and the Care Society

2 Dec 2025 | News

The Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, which carried out its sixty-seventh meeting on December 1-2, confirmed once again the continued relevance of the agreements that have made up the Regional Gender Agenda since 1977, particularly the Tlatelolco Commitment: A Decade of Action to Achieve Substantive Gender Equality and the Care Society, adopted in August 2025, reaffirming the “commitment to accelerate its full and effective implementation” in synergy with other regional and international treaties and mechanisms. The Sixty-…

Ministers and Senior Authorities Will Meet to Discuss Implementation of the Tlatelolco Commitment and Participate in a Consultation Prior to the CSW70

27 Nov 2025 | Announcement

Ministers and senior authorities from women’s advancement mechanisms will participate in the Sixty-Seventh Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, which will take place on Monday, December 1 and Tuesday, December 2, 2025 using a hybrid format (in-person and virtual) from the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile. In addition to delegates from ECLAC’s Member States, other participants in the meeting will include representatives of the United Nations (UN),…

ECLAC Will Launch its Social Panorama of Latin America and the Caribbean 2025 Report

20 Nov 2025 | Announcement

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will present next Wednesday, November 26 its flagship annual report Social Panorama of Latin America and the Caribbean 2025. How to escape the trap of high inequality, low social mobility and weak social cohesion, which includes the latest data available on poverty, income inequality and social spending in the region, among other indicators. The main conclusions of the document consisting of four chapters will be unveiled by José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, at a hybrid (in-person…

ECLAC Calls for Accelerating the Achievement of Substantive Gender Equality and the Care Society on the Occasion of the International Day of Care and Support

27 Oct 2025 | News

On 29 October 2025, the International Day of Care and Support, proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in 2023, will be commemorated. This date seeks to raise awareness of the centrality of care in our societies and its contribution to people’s well-being and prosperity and to the achievement of gender equality and sustainable development. The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has proposed a paradigm shift in development: the care society, a form of social organization and renewed multilateralism that prioritizes the sustainability of life and the c…

How Can We Achieve the Care Society in Latin America and the Caribbean?

13 Aug 2025 | News

On the second day of the XVI Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, which is being held through Friday, August 15 in Mexico City, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, presented the position paper The Care Society: Governance, Political Economy and Social Dialogue for a Transformation with Gender Equality, which is inspiring the intergovernmental gathering’s debates at the Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco. “Moving towards the care society is one of the vital transformations required to foster more productive, inclusive and …

Latin American and Caribbean Legislators Play a Crucial Role for Making Progress on Care Policies in the Region

11 Aug 2025 | News

The crucial role of the region’s legislators for advancing towards the care society was emphasized today at the inauguration of the Parliamentary Forum of Latin America and the Caribbean within the framework of the XVI Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, organized by Mexico’s Congress of the Union, UN Women and ECLAC at the San Lázaro Legislative Palace in Mexico City. Participating in the opening ceremony were Senator Martha Lucia Mícher Camarena, President of the Gender Equality Commission of the Senate of the Republic of Mexico; Deputy Anaís Miriam Burgos Hernán…

President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, Will Inaugurate the XVI Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

8 Aug 2025 | Announcement

On Tuesday, 12 August 2025, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo will preside over the inauguration of the XVI Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, the main intergovernmental forum within the United Nations focused on women's rights and gender equality in the region. The opening ceremony will take place at Palacio Nacional at 11 a.m. local time in Mexico (GMT-6). The intergovernmental meeting will bring together high-level authorities from Mexico and the region along with representatives of multilateral organizations, academia and civil society, parti…

How to Follow the XVI Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

6 Aug 2025 | News

On August 12-15 in Mexico City, the XVI Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean will bring together high-level authorities from Mexico and the region along with representatives of multilateral organizations, academia and civil society, particularly from women’s and feminist organizations and movements. The Conference – organized since 1977 by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), which serves as its Secretariat, and in coordination with the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) si…

Mexico Will Host on August 12-15 the XVI Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

22 Jul 2025 | Announcement

Senior authorities from Mexico and other governments in the region, along with representatives of the United Nations (UN), multilateral organizations, parliaments, academia and civil society – particularly women’s and feminist movements and organizations – will gather on August 12-15, 2025 in Mexico to participate in the XVI Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean. The event, to be held at the Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco in Mexico City, will address “political, economic, social, cultural and environmental transformations as a means of advancing the car…

ECLAC Supports Strengthening Argentine Provinces’ Capacities in New Areas

30 Dec 2024 | News

In response to the interest expressed by the government of Santiago del Estero, ECLAC’s national office in Argentina carried out technical assistance jointly with the province’s Secretariat of Science and Technology in order to make an assessment of the knowledge economy ecosystem in the province and to continue promoting that sector’s development. The study included the mapping of stakeholders through on-the-ground fieldwork, which involved interviews with representatives of the private sector, the science and technology system, and provincial authorities. This analysis enabled the evaluation…

Ministers and Senior Authorities Will Meet at ECLAC to Review Implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 30 Years After its Approval as well as Preparations for the XVI Regional Conference on Women, to be Held in Mexico in 2025

29 Nov 2024 | Announcement

Ministers and senior authorities from national women’s advancement mechanisms in the region will participate on December 4-5, 2024, in the Sixty-sixth Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, which will be held at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile. This meeting – which has become a critical space for evaluating the region’s progress on gender equality and women’s autonomy – is being organized by ECLAC, in its capacity as Secretariat of the Conference, in coo…

ECLAC Calls for Transforming Development Models in Latin America and the Caribbean and Building a Society that Prioritizes People and the Planet on the Occasion of the International Day of Care and Support

28 Oct 2024 | News

On October 29, 2024, the International Day of Care and Support will be commemorated, as proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in 2023. This day aims to highlight the centrality of care in our societies as a public good, recognizing its essential role in ensuring the sustainability of life and the planet, and its key contribution to the well-being and prosperity of individuals, societies, sustainable development, and equality. As global, regional, and national demands for care increase, ECLAC reaffirms its commitment to the countries of the region to design and implement comprehensi…

XXV International Meeting on Gender Statistics Strengthens Partnerships to Promote Evidence-Based Gender Equality Policies

2 Sep 2024 | News

​​​​​​ In the opening session, the use of statistical information and innovation to strengthen the gender perspective in public policy design and implementation was highlighted. The XXV International Meeting on Gender Statistics (EIEG) began in Aguascalientes, Mexico, under the theme "25 years of partnerships to strengthen evidence-based equality policies." This event brings together over 170 participants in person and more than 300 virtually, representing 18 countries. Representatives from the public sector, academia, and international organizations are participating. The event is organized…

Academic Forum on Care Begins in Preparation for the XVI Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

28 Aug 2024 | News

The Academic Forum “Territories of Care: Contributions from Academia to the XVI Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean” will be held in Mexico City, on August 28 and 29, 2024. Convened by the Government of Mexico through the National Institute of Women; El Colegio de México, A.C. (COLMEX); the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC); and UN Women, the event brings together representatives from academia, governments, civil society, and international organizations. Silvia Giorguli, President of El Colegio de México, where the event is being held, …

ECLAC Participated in Special Meeting of the Economic and Social Council on Care and Support Systems

19 Jul 2024 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) reaffirmed today its commitment to a society where care is a central part of prosperous, sustainable, and just economies during a special meeting on care and support systems organized by the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in New York. In a recorded message, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, stated that “care is at the foundation of life’s sustainability and is key to achieving social justice and renewing the social contract. The concept of a care society excites, calls upon, and r…

COP 3 Reinforced the Commitment to Mainstreaming the Gender Perspective and to Women’s Full and Effective Participation in the Implementation of the Escazú Agreement

25 Apr 2024 | News

At the third meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 3) to the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean – known as the Escazú Agreement – countries adopted the Decision on Mainstreaming the Gender Perspective, which poses the urgency of integrating and strengthening the gender perspective, of ensuring the full and effective participation of women in all their diversity, including indigenous women, and of preventing discrimination and gender-based violence against women who are environmental d…

ECLAC Caribbean Encourages Regional Leaders to Use Resources for Progress on Gender Equality for Women and Girls

7 Mar 2024 | News

In the Caribbean, the situation is very similar to the global outlook. Women in the Caribbean face several challenges disproportionately when compared to men. The 2018 Report, Turning Promises Into Action: Gender Equality in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, states that significant challenges lie ahead for women in Latin America and the Caribbean to experience gender equality. It reported that 21 per cent of women and girls aged 15 to 49 had experienced physical and/or sexual violence by an intimate partner in the previous 12 months. Director of ECLAC Caribbean Diane Quarless …

Latin America and the Caribbean Reaffirms Its Commitment to Gender Equality ahead of CSW68

6 Mar 2024 | News

Ministers and high-level authorities from the machineries for the advancement of women in Latin America and the Caribbean participated on February 28 in briefing on the 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW 68), organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and UN Women virtually. CSW 68 will take place at the United Nations headquarters in New York from March 11 to 22, with the priority theme of "Accelerating the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls by addressing poverty and strengthening institutions…

Women’s Affairs Ministers and Authorities from Latin America and the Caribbean Will Meet to Reaffirm the Commitment to Gender Equality and Moving Towards the Care Society

6 Oct 2023 | Announcement

Ministers of Women’s Affairs and authorities from mechanisms for women’s advancement in the region, in addition to other government officials, representatives of United Nations and intergovernmental organizations, academia and civil society – particularly women’s and feminist movements – will meet on October 11-12, 2023 to follow up on the commitments that countries have adopted on gender equality and women’s autonomy, and moving towards the care society. The Sixty-fifth Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean – which will take p…

Latin America and the Caribbean is Very Far from Achieving Parity Democracy, Authorities and Experts Warned at a CAF-ECLAC Event

7 Mar 2023 | News

Parity democracy, based on gender equality, is very far from being achieved in Latin America and the Caribbean, authorities and experts sustained at the High-level Meeting: Public Policies and Cooperation for Gender Equality, organized by the CAF Development Bank of Latin America and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Chile on Monday, March 6. The meeting was connected to the observance of International Women's Day and coincided with the meeting of the CAF board of directors at ECLAC’s headquarters, with Chile hosting the event. During the event, CAF and EC…

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