The Hummingbird Vol.4 No.10

Challenges to the autonomy and interdependent rights of older persons

Rapid population ageing in Latin America and the Caribbean brings multiple challenges and requires action to ensure the fair distribution of resources to meet the needs of all age groups in society. It also requires a change in attitudes, policies and practices to improve older persons’ quality of life. In this regard, the effective inclusion of older persons has to do with equitable access to different services and social and economic benefits, as well as the guarantee of their human rights.…

Annotated provisional agenda. Special meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

Proposed metadata sheets for the indicators for regional follow-up of the Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development. Ad Hoc working group for the preparation of a proposal on the indicators for regional follow-up of the Montevideo Consensus on...

Provisional agenda. Special meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

The Hummingbird Vol. 4 No. 8

Report of the eighteenth meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee

Asunción declaration. Building inclusive societies: ageing with dignity and rights

Annotated provisional agenda. Fourth Regional Intergovernmental Conference on Ageing and the Rights of Older Persons in Latin America and the Caribbean

Provisional agenda. Fourth Regional Intergovernmental Conference on Ageing and the Rights of Older Persons in Latin America and the Caribbean

Santiago Chile: city of cities? Social inequalities in local labour market zones

This article seeks to define and characterize the urban structure of Santiago, Chile, based on the relation between its inhabitants’ places of residency and work, which form local labour market zones. The article explains the criteria and methodological procedures used to define these zones, and it describes them on the basis of this functional definition, to determine the extent to which they underpin the social inequalities prevailing in the city. It also makes a spatial analysis of income inequality, access to education and the composition of the social classes.…

Observatorio Demográfico de América Latina y el Caribe 2016: Proyecciones de población = Demographic Observatory of Latin America and the Caribbean 2016: Population projections

El Observatorio Demográfico 2016 reúne indicadores seleccionados de la revisión de 2016 de las estimaciones y proyecciones de la población nacional, urbana, rural y económicamente activa. Las cifras contenidas en esta publicación constituyen una revisión de las presentadas en el Observatorio Demográfico 2015. En esta oportunidad, se actualizaron las estimaciones y proyecciones de la población económicamente activa desde 1980 hasta 2050, considerando la nueva información disponible en CEPALSTAT, a partir de tabulaciones especiales de las encuestas de hogares y de los nuevos censos de población.…

Report of the Third meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

Progress report of the ad-hoc Working Group for the preparation of a proposal on the indicators for regional follow-up of the Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development (revised version)

Format for national progress reports on the implementation of the Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development

Agreements. Third meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

The Hummingbird Vol.3 No.10

Annotated provisional agenda. Third meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

Report on the workshop to review progress in the preparation of the proposed indicators for regional monitoring of the Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development. Mexico City, 8-9 June 2016

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