Indicators for monitoring the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Woman

This report proposes a series of gender indicators as instruments to support Member States of the United Nations in monitoring the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, by virtue of which all Latin American and Caribbean countries, among others, have agreed to guarantee the exercise of the rights established by the Convention, and to adopt all necessary measures to ensure the exercise of those rights. The purpose of these indicators is to highlight the scale and intensity of the different forms of gender inequity within a framework that facilitates interna…

XXXIV Asamblea de Delegadas de la Comisión Interamericana de la Mujer (CIM/OEA)

Report of the Caribbean technical meeting on the establishment of a gender equality observatory in Latin America and the Cariibbean

Two stops in today's new global geographies: shaping novel labor supplies and employment regimes

Across the centuries, the international division of labor has included a variety of translocal circuits for the mobility of labor and capital (Wallerstein 1974; Froebel et al. 1980; Potts 1990; Silver 2003; Koo 2001; Aneesh 2006; Khotari 2006; Smith and Favell 2006). These circuits have varied considerably across time and space, shaped at least partly by the specific constitution of labor and capital.Many of these older circuits continue to exist today. But there are often new dynamics that feed them. And there are new types of circuits as well. One outcome is the emergence of novel global geo…