What kind of State? what kind of equality?: XI Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean: Brasilia, 13-16 July 2010

The document What kind of State? What kind of equality? analyses the progress of gender equality in the region 15 years after the approval of the Beijing Platform for Action, 10 years after the drafting of the Millennium Development Goals and 3 years after the adoption of the Quito Consensus at the tenth session of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, held in 2007. It also examines the achievements made and challenges faced by governments in light of the interaction between the State, the market and families as social institutions built on the foundation of poli…

Women's contribution to equality in Latin America and the Caribbean

Women's contribution to equality in Latin America and the Caribbean. El aporte de las mujeres a la igualdad en América Latina y el Caribe. La contribution des femmes à l'égalité en Amérique latine et dans les Caraïbes. A Comissão Econômica para a América Latina e o Caribe The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has been monitoring progress of gender-sensitive public policies for more than a decade. Faithful to its mandate, ECLAC has proposed a rights-based development framework in order to produce positive synergies between economic growth and social equi…

Documentos presentados a la Décima Conferencia Regional sobre la Mujer de América Latina y el Caribe = Documents presented at the Tenth Session of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

The challenge of gender equity and human rights on the threshold of the twenty-first century

This document was prepared by the Women and Development Unit of ECLAC and submitted to the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean at its eighth session (Lima, Peru, 8-10 February 2000); (bearing the symbol LC/L.1295(CRM.8/3););.…

Documentos presentados a la Octava Conferencia Regional sobre la Mujer de América Latina y el Caribe = Documents presented at the Eighth Session of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

Eighth session of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean (Lima, Peru, 8-10 February 2000);…

Documentos presentados a la Séptima Conferencia Regional sobre la Integración de la Mujer en el Desarrollo Económico y Social de América Latina y el Caribe = Documents presented at the Seventh Session of the Regional Conference on the Integration...

Documentos presentados a la Sexta Conferencia Regional sobre la Integración de la Mujer en el Desarrollo Económico y Social de América Latina y el Caribe = Documents presented at the Sixth Session of the Regional Conference on the Integration of...