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26 March 2024 | Press Release
The country’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Javier González-Olaechea Franco, and the United Nations regional economic commission’s Executive Secretary, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, signed an agreement today in Lima establishing that this meeting will be held on October 8-11, 2024.
8 de March de 2024 | Op-ed
Por José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Secretario Ejecutivo de la CEPAL.
Director Diane Quarless of ECLAC Caribbean says #investinwomen
7 March 2024 | News
The international community has committed to making every effort to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, yet we remain disturbingly behind when it comes to meeting the targets for achievement of gender equality and empowering all women and girls. The SDG indicators measuring progress on this goal signal that, globally, we are only on track to reach 15.4 per cent of the targets set for gender equality. Even more worrisome is the fact that 61.5 per cent of the gender equality targets are far or very far off track.
6 March 2024 | Infographic
In recent years, cascading crises, including the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, have highlighted the unjust social organization of care and the need for a new development model centred on care and the sustainability of life (ECLAC, 2022). These crises present an opportunity to design bold policies and to transition to a care society that prioritizes people and the planet (ECLAC, 2022). In the Buenos Aires Commitment, adopted at the fifteenth session of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, the member States of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) agreed to transition to a care society, focusing on new areas for a transformative, gender-equal and sustainable recovery. They recognized care as a right to provide and receive care and to exercise self-care. The Regional Gender Agenda calls for the promotion of measures to overcome the sexual division of labour and move towards a fair social organization of care, in the framework of a new development model that fosters gender equality in the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development. The recognition of care as a right makes it necessary to strengthen the role of States at the national and subnational levels, through care policies and systems based on the principles of equality, universality and social and gender co-responsibility, including coordinated policies on time, resources, benefits and universal and quality public services in the territory. The present document was prepared in response to the Buenos Aires Commitment, in which ECLAC was instructed to prepare a document on guiding principles for the design of policies, from a gender, intersectional and intercultural perspective and the perspective of territory, within the framework of human rights.
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6 March 2024 | News
ECLAC and UN Women presented the joint document "The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Regional Gender Agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean. Gender Indicators up to 2023”.
4 de March de 2024 | Press Release
La comisión económica regional de las Naciones Unidas y el Gobierno de Guatemala alinean esfuerzos para acelerar el paso hacia un desarrollo más productivo, inclusivo y sostenible del país centroamericano.
24 de January de 2024 | Speech
Palabras del Secretario Ejecutivo de la CEPAL, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, en el evento paralelo a la reunión del ECOSOC “Reedición de las memorias de Hernán Santa Cruz, ‘Cooperar o perecer: el dilema de la comunidad mundial’ y celebración de su legado”.
Foto ceremonia 75 aniversario CEPAL
24 January 2024 | News
A ceremony to commemorate this United Nations regional commission’s 75th anniversary was held in the framework of the Special Meeting of UN ECOSOC that is taking place in Santiago, Chile.
24 January 2024 | Speech
Remarks by José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Secretary of ECLAC.
9 January 2024 | Press Release
According to a new joint publication by these two United Nations organizations, the increase in the regional employment rate, seen in 2022, slowed significantly in the first six months of 2023, while the participation rate declined.
13 December 2023 | Infographic
Child, early and forced marriages and unions are defined as a union in which at least one of the parties is under the age of 18. The overwhelming majority of formal and informal child marriages and unions involve girls, although in some cases their male spouses are also under 18. As stated in the Joint general recommendation No. 31 of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women/general comment No. 18 of the Committee on the Rights of the Child on harmful practices, and Human Rights Council resolution 29/8 of 2 July 2015, on strengthening efforts to prevent and eliminate child, early and forced marriage, child marriage is considered a form of forced marriage, as it is practiced without the full, free and informed consent of one or both parties (United Nations, 2015b). The definition used to address this violation of the human rights of children and adolescents includes marriages involving a conjugal union recognized by legal, customary or religious norms, as well as informal conjugal unions.
Foto de participantes en el evento
27 de November de 2023 | News
José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Secretario Ejecutivo de la CEPAL, y Enrique O’Farrill-Julien, Director Ejecutivo de AGCID (Chile), inauguraron reunión de dos días en la que participan países de América del Sur.
23 November 2023 | Press Release
Femicidal violence can be prevented with comprehensive and forceful state responses, says the United Nations regional organization, which urges countries to move towards a care society in the region.
23 November 2023 | Press Release
Despite this improvement in the indicators, more than 180 million people in the region do not have enough income to meet their basic needs and 70 million of them lack the income needed to acquire a basic food basket, the Commission warns in its report Social Panorama of Latin America and the Caribbean 2023.
Secretario General ONU es recibido por el Secretario Ejecutivo CEPAL
22 November 2023 | News
The global organization’s highest authority urged UN agencies, funds and programs to redouble their efforts on joint work to support the country.
21 de November de 2023 | Speech
Palabras de bienvenida de José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Secretario Ejecutivo de la CEPAL.
14 de November de 2023 | Speech
Palabras de bienvenida de José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Secretario Ejecutivo de la CEPAL.
31 October 2023 | Op-ed
By José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Secretary of ECLAC.
17 October 2023 | Press Release
This body reports on the Commission’s activities in 2022 and enables analysis of its 2025 programme of work. The meeting was led by the United Nations regional institution’s Executive Secretary, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs.

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