Montevideo, Uruguay will be the site of discussions on migration, employment, ageing, gender equality, sexual and reproductive health, long-term care and ethnic-racial inclusion.

The biannual publication, which has been published for more than 50 years, is launched in June and December.

The event’s main panels will be transmitted live from July 3 to July 4, 2024. The invitation on social media is to participate in the debates using the hashtags #poblaciónALC and #populationLAC.

This intergovernmental gathering will bring together authorities from the region’s countries, representatives of regional and international organizations and members of civil society, on July 2-4 in Cartagena de Indias.

This celebration will take place in the framework of the fifth meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Population and Development, which will be held on November 14-15 at ECLAC’s headquarters in Chile.

New estimates and projections by ECLAC and the United Nations Population Division confirm that the region’s population is growing at an increasingly low rate, due mainly to a decline in fertility.

At a side event of the United Nations High-Level Political Forum, specialists addressed the opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean for the integration of biodiversity, sustainable agriculture and transformative action.

The event’s main panels will be transmitted live from June 28 to June 30, 2022. The invitation on social media is to participate in the debates using the hashtags #poblaciónALC and #populationLAC.

The Fourth Session of the Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean will take place using a hybrid format on June 28-30, 2022, at ECLAC’s central headquarters.

The meeting, which was postponed in 2020 due to the global health crisis prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic, will be held at ECLAC’s central headquarters in Santiago, Chile using a hybrid model, meaning a mix of in-person and virtual participation.

Authorities from the region participated today in the launch of the book Afrodescendants and the matrix of social inequality in Latin America: Challenges for inclusion, presented in the framework of ECLAC’s 38th session.

Alicia Bárcena, ECLAC's Executive Secretary; Harold Robinson, UNPFA’s Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean, and Gerardo Zavaleta, Peru's Vice Minister of Vulnerable Populations, joined a virtual conversation on the impacts of COVID-19 on Afro-descendant populations.

The fourth meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Population and Development will be held at ECLAC’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile, 9 - 10 October 2019

The First Regional Report on the Implementation of the Montevideo Consensus describes the region’s progress and challenges with regard to population and development.

The study, requested to ECLAC by the Presidential Commission on Discrimination and Racism against the Indigenous Peoples of Guatemala (CODISRA), offers recommendations that would allow for moving toward social equality while also promoting cultural diversity.

A study published by the United Nations regional organization analyzes their autonomy in terms of three key dimensions: economic, physical and in decision-making.

Head of State Martín Vizcarra will inaugurate the event on Tuesday 7 August at the Convention Center of Lima.

The third meeting of the Regional Conference on Population and Development, organized by ECLAC and the government of Peru, with support from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), will take place on August 7-9 in Lima.

The Special Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Population and Development will be held at ECLAC’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile on November 7-9, 2017.

The United Nations regional commission’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, will hold a press conference on May 30 in Santiago, Chile.