The Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development is an example of multilateralism in action and of the capacity to harmonize interests, pursue agreements and partnerships, and make progress on shared cooperation agendas, representatives of the region’s countries, of United Nations agencies and of regional, multilateral and civil-society organizations agreed today at the eighth meeting of this platform, which concluded on Friday, April 4 at ECLAC’s main headquarters in Santiago, Chile.
Five years before the deadline for fulfilling the 2030 Agenda, these d…
El Foro de los Países de América Latina y el Caribe sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible es ejemplo de multilateralismo en acción y de la capacidad de convenir voluntades, buscar acuerdos y alianzas, y avanzar en agendas comunes de cooperación, coincidieron hoy representantes de países de la región, de agencias de las Naciones Unidas y organismos regionales, multilaterales y de la sociedad civil presentes en la octava reunión de la plataforma, que finalizó este viernes 4 de abril en la sede principal de la CEPAL en Santiago de Chile.
A cinco años de que se cumpla el plazo de la Agenda 2030, los…
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) released today the Statistical Yearbook for Latin America and the Caribbean 2024, which can be accessed online and presents a statistical overview addressing the social, economic and environmental development of the region’s countries based on information that was available as of December 2024.
This annual publication, which is among the United Nations regional organization’s most important, serves as a reference for those seeking descriptive statistical data that is comparable between countries and over time.
The St…
La Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) difundió hoy el Anuario Estadístico de América Latina y el Caribe 2024, accesible a través de internet, en el que se presenta un panorama estadístico que da cuenta del desarrollo social, económico y ambiental de los países de la región a partir de la información que se encontraba disponible hasta diciembre de 2024.
Esta publicación anual, una de las más importantes del organismo regional de las Naciones Unidas, constituye una referencia para quienes deseen contar con datos estadísticos descriptivos comparables entre países y en el t…
If you had to guess the leading cause of death for children and young people globally, what would you say? Malaria? Pneumonia? Suicide? They’re all up there, but no, it’s road crashes. Cars have been around for over 120 years, and we know how to prevent these tragedies. Yet road crashes still claim more than two lives every minute, and nearly 1.2 million lives every year. If these deaths were caused by a virus, it would be called a pandemic and the world would scramble to develop vaccines to prevent them. And yet reducing road deaths has long been overlooked, misunderstood …
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