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20 August 2024 | News

ECLAC Journal "Notas de Población" Invites Authors to Submit Manuscripts on Demography, Population and Development, and Public Policies for the 2025 Edition
The biannual publication, which has been published for more than 50 years, is launched in June and December.
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30 June 2024 | News

How to Follow the Fifth session of the Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
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.
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28 June 2024 | News

Colombia’s Foreign Minister, ECLAC’s Deputy Executive Secretary, UNFPA’s Regional Director and Other Senior Authorities Will Inaugurate Fifth Session of the Regional Conference on Population and Development
On July 3-4 in Cartagena de Indias, this intergovernmental event will bring together authorities from Latin American and Caribbean countries, representatives of regional and international organizations, and members of civil society.
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14 November 2023 | News

New Document Analyzes Progress on Implementation of the Priority Measures of the Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development, 10 Years After its Adoption
The report, prepared by ECLAC with support from UNFPA, was presented to countries in the framework of the Fifth Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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17 November 2022 | News

Latin America and the Caribbean is One of the Regions Most Affected Demographically by the Health Crisis
The 2022 edition of ECLAC’s Demographic Observatory confirms that the region had the biggest loss of years of life expectancy at birth in 2021 versus 2019, and a sharp reduction in population growth.
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25 August 2022 | News

Countries Reaffirm the Importance of Generating More and Better Statistics for Decision-Making
Representatives of Latin American and Caribbean countries concluded the twenty-first meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC.
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27 July 2022 | News

Latin America and the Caribbean Lost Nearly 3 Years of Life Expectancy at Birth between 2019 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 Pandemic
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.
foto de Alicia Bárcena, Secretaria Ejecutiva de la CEPAL.
14 June 2021 | News

A Feminist Foreign Policy is Needed to Achieve a Transformative Recovery with Equality in the Region: Alicia Bárcena
ECLAC’s Executive Secretary participated in the 2nd Cultural Congress Migrant Women from Mexico and the World, organized by the Mexican Consulate in Houston (United States).
Fotografía de los participantes de la reunión
25 May 2021 | News

Fourth Meeting of the Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean Will Take Place in the First Half of 2022
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.
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28 April 2021 | News

Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean Affirm their Commitment to Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration
The Regional review meeting on implementation of the Global Compact concluded today with a call to work so that migration can be an option rather than an obligation.
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28 October 2020 | News

Ending Racism is a Task for Everyone and is Central to Building Fairer, More Democratic and Egalitarian Societies
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, during her presentation.
23 September 2020 | News

The Comprehensive Development Plan is the Key to Addressing Migration’s Structural Causes with a Focus on Growth, Equality and Environmental Sustainability
ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, participated today in a high-level event on the response to forced displacement in Central America, where she urged the international community to consider debt relief on the interest payments of the subregion’s countries through 2021.
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22 September 2020 | News

ECLAC Identifies 6 Lessons to Promote the Use of Family Remittances to Strengthen Value Chains
The new document poses the need to provide steadfast support to small producers to strengthen their capacities and their financial inclusion.
Alicia Bárcena, ECLAC's Executive Secretary, during her presentation.
20 August 2020 | News

Experts Call to Address the Human Rights of Migrants as a Priority during the Post Pandemic Recovery

Alicia Bárcena, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, Antonina Sasieta, Peru’s Minister of Women and Vulnerable Populations, and Harold Robinson, UNFPA’s Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean, took part in a virtual conversation on the impacts of COVID-19 on migrants.
Alicia Bárcena, Secretaria Ejecutiva de la CEPAL
13 August 2020 | News

ECLAC Calls for a Renewed Dialogue between the United States and Latin America and the Caribbean for a post COVID-19 Recovery with Equality and Sustainability
The organization’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, made a presentation during a high-level seminar on the challenges that the crisis arising from the coronavirus poses for both parties.
Alicia Bárcena, ECLAC's Executive Secretary, during her presentation.
22 January 2020 | News

Investment is Key for Bolstering Productive Diversification, Infrastructure, and Integration of the Region’s Countries
In the framework of her participation in the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, Alicia Bárcena, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, spoke at a session on the outlook for emerging markets in 2020, where she stressed the urgency of changing the development paradigm.
Alicia Bárcena, Secretaria Ejecutiva de la CEPAL (a la izquierda), durante el evento organizado por el Pacto Mundial de las Naciones Unidas.
18 July 2019 | News

Alicia Bárcena: The Conversation Must Change between Governments, the Private Sector and Civil Society to Meet the SDGs
ECLAC’s Executive Secretary took part in an event organized by the UN Global Compact and the permanent missions of Argentina and Lebanon on the sidelines of the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development going on through Friday in New York.
Alicia Bárcena, Secretaria Ejecutiva de la CEPAL, durante la reunión efectuada en Nueva York
26 February 2019 | News

ECLAC’S Executive Secretary Calls on the UN System to Address the Fundamental Causes of Migration
Alicia Bárcena moderated a high-level panel during an expert symposium on migration and development in New York.
Fotografía del panel de la conferencia.
11 December 2018 | News

Young People Under 24 from Rural Areas Constitute the Greater Part of Emigration from Northern Central America
In Marrakech today, ECLAC and FAO presented a document that examines the main causes and salient characteristics of the migratory phenomenon in countries of the subregion.
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11 December 2018 | News

ECLAC Participates in Intergovernmental Conference on the Global Compact for Migration in Marrakech
Alicia Bárcena, the organization’s Executive Secretary, spoke on various panels during the two-day global gathering. On Sunday, December 9, meanwhile, she led a side event organized by the five United Nations regional commissions.

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