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Experts at ECLAC during the session on urban mobility, held in the framework of the Cities Conference.
6 October 2017 | News

Cities Conference Concluded at ECLAC with Session on Mobility and Sustainable Urban Transportation
Experts meeting in Santiago, Chile debated good practices and public policy recommendations for strengthening the management of cities in Latin America and the Caribbean.
foto grupal de los participantes en la reunión
6 October 2017 | News

Authorities on Women’s Issues Agreed to Continue Strengthening the Institutional Architecture for Advancing toward Gender Equality in the Region
ECLAC’s next Regional Conference on Women – which will take place in 2019 in Santiago, Chile – will focus on the achievement of women’s economic autonomy, which is key for enabling them to exercise the rest of their rights, according to officials.
5 October 2017 | Speech

Opening of the fifty-sixth meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean
Remarks by Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of ECLAC (in Spanish).
5 October 2017 | Press Release

Commemoration in Havana of 40 Years of Advancement of Women’s Equality and Rights in the Region with a Focus on Pending Challenges
Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Vice President of the Councils of State and Ministers of Cuba, and Alicia Bárcena, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, led the inauguration of the Fifty-Sixth Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women.
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4 October 2017 | Announcement

Peru Will Host Two Important Meetings on Development Planning in Latin America and the Caribbean
The XV Conference of Ministers and Heads of Planning of Latin America and the Caribbean and the XVI Meeting of the Regional Council for Planning will be held on October 11-13 in Lima.
3 October 2017 | Press Release

Latin American and Caribbean Countries Urge Construction of Cities Centered on Equality, Sustainability and Productivity

In the context of the inauguration of the Cities Conference, Alicia Bárcena, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, presented the Regional Action Plan for the implementation of the New Urban Agenda.
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2 October 2017 | Announcement

ECLAC Organizes Seminar in Mexico to Debate New Generation of Policies and Institutions for Region’s MSMEs
Government officials, specialists and business representatives will participate on October 10-11 in this event of the Euromipyme project, developed with the European Union.
29 September 2017 | Speech

Ceremony marking the admission of the Republic of Turkey as a full member of ECLAC
Remarks (in Spanish) by Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).
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29 September 2017 | Announcement

Regional Conference on Women Organized by ECLAC Commemorates 40th Anniversary in Havana
On October 5-6, 2017, the Fifty-Sixth Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean will be held in Cuba’s capital.
Alicia Bárcena, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, and Naciye Gökçen Kaya, the Republic of Turkey’s Ambassador to Chile, during the ceremony.
29 September 2017 | News

Republic of Turkey Joins ECLAC as a Member State
In a ceremony led by Executive Secretary Alicia Bárcena and Ambassador Naciye Gökçen Kaya, the Turkish flag was raised for the first time at the UN regional organization’s offices.
Alicia Bárcena, Secretaria Ejecutiva de la CEPAL (a la izquierda), y Christiane Bögemann-Hagedorn, Directora General Adjunta para América Latina del Ministerio Federal de Cooperación Económica y Desarrollo (BMZ) de Alemania, en Lima.
28 September 2017 | News

ECLAC and BMZ Analyze in Lima a New Phase of Collaboration with a Focus on the 2030 Agenda
Alicia Bárcena, the regional organization’s Executive Secretary, and Christiane Bögemann-Hagedorn, Deputy Director General for Latin America of Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), headed the meetings in the Peruvian capital.
The Cities Conference flyer.
28 September 2017 | Announcement

National, Subnational Governments and Experts to Analyze at ECLAC Mechanisms of Implementation for New Urban Agenda in the Region

The Cities Conference, co-organized by ECLAC, MINURVI and UN-Habitat, will be held October 2-6 at the regional Commission’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile.
27 September 2017 | Press Release

ECLAC Underscores Strategic Potential of Triangular Cooperation to Give the Region’s Economies an Environmental Big Push
The regional organization’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, made a presentation at the IV Regional Conference on Prospects for Triangular Cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean, held in Lima, Peru.
27 September 2017 | News

Offshore medical universities provide economic benefit to Caribbean host countries
A recent ECLAC Caribbean meeting found that the benefits of hosting offshore medical universities could prove especially significant for some of the smaller economies of the subregion.
22 September 2017 | Press Release

ECLAC Calls for Reaffirming the Positive Contribution of Migrants with Evidence and Data
ECLAC’s Executive Secretary participated in a meeting of the United Nations regional commissions on the prospects of the Global Compact for safe, orderly and regular migration.
22 September 2017 | News

ECLAC disaster assessment to Bahamas in the wake of Irma
During 24-29 September 2017, the ECLAC Damage and Loss Assessment (DALA) Team will carry out an extensive Economic Impact Assessment on those islands in the Bahamas which were affected by hurricanes Irma and Maria.
La Secretaria Ejecutiva de la CEPAL, Alicia Bárcena, durante su participación en la reunión.
21 September 2017 | News

Middle Income Countries Require Differentiated and Fair Access to Financing for Development: Alicia Bárcena
ECLAC’s Executive Secretary participated today in New York in the second high-level ministerial meeting of like-minded nations that support middle income countries.
20 September 2017 | Press Release

ECLAC Underscores Progress in the Pacific Alliance Integration Process
Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the United Nations regional commission, moderated the V CEO Investment Summit of the bloc in New York, attended by the presidents of Chile and Colombia, the Foreign Affairs Minister of Mexico and the Minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism of Peru.
20 September 2017 | Press Release

Alicia Bárcena: “The Eradication of Poverty is a Moral Imperative for our Societies”
ECLAC’s Executive Secretary moderated a high-level event in New York convened by Chilean President Michelle Bachelet and her government, in which leaders and authorities from Colombia, Costa Rica, Curaçao, Honduras, Mexico, the Philippines and Spain participated.
El evento de alto nivel se realizó en el marco del 72 período de sesiones de la Asamblea General de la ONU en Nueva York.
19 September 2017 | News

ECLAC Advocates for the Combined Use of Traditional Statistics and Big Data for Measuring SDGs
Alicia Bárcena, the regional organization’s Executive Secretary, spoke at a high-level event on the use of data and technology that was held in the framework of the UN General Assembly’s 72nd session.

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