The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are fundamentally a set of eight global goals
for the achievement of basic economic and social rights for all, with time-bound targets to be achieved
by the year 2015. In adopting the Millennium Declaration in 2000, the member States of the United
Nations pledged to “spare no effort to free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and
dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty.”1 The focus of this report is on the progress made by
Caribbean countries towards the achievement of Goal 1: the eradication of extreme poverty and
hunger; and Goal 3: t…
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…
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…
Este informe es el resultado del trabajo conjunto de los organismos especializados del Sistema de las Naciones Unidas en América Latina y el Caribe que se inició, en 2005, con el Informe Regional titulado Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio: Una mirada desde América Latina y el Caribe (Naciones Unidas 2005). En su elaboración han contribuido todos los organismos y, muy especialmente, el UNIFEM, la OPS, el UNFPA y la CEPAL, ésta última como organismo coordinador. Partiendo de la información disponible más reciente en el momento de la elaboración del presente informe, la atención se …
This report is the outcome of a joint effort by the specialized agencies of the United Nations system in Latin America and the Caribbean that began in 2005 with the regional report entitled The Millennium Development Goals: A Latin American and Caribbean Perspective (United Nations, 2005). All the agencies participated in its preparation, in particular UNIFEM, PAHO, UNFPA and ECLAC, the lastmentioned as coordinating agency. On the basis of the most recent data available at the time of preparation, the report focuses attention on the progress made in meeting Goal 3, (Promote gender equali…
El presente documento propone una serie de indicadores de género con el propósito de ofrecer una herramienta que apoye a los Estados Miembros de las Naciones Unidas en el seguimiento de la Convención para la eliminación de todas las formas de discriminación contra la mujer, por medio de la cual todos los países de América Latina y el Caribe - entre otros - se comprometieron a garantizar el ejercicio de los derechos establecidos en la Convención y a adoptar todas las medidas necesarias para asegurar el disfrute de los mismos. Estos indicadores pretenden ayudar a visibilizar la magnitud y la int…
The report No more! The right of women to live a life free of violence in Latin America and the Caribbean1 is the result of a joint effort by specialist United Nations organizations and entities in Latin America and the Caribbean. To fulfil this mission inspired by resolution 58/185 of the United Nations General Assembly of December 2003,2 the organizations represented in the thirteenth meeting of specialist bodies and other organizations of the United Nations system on the advancement of women in Latin America and the Caribbean (Mar del Plata, Argentina, September 6, 2005) agreed to implement…
With the approval of the Quito Consensus by 33 participating governments, the 10th Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean concluded yesterday in Ecuador. Convened by the Economic Commission for Latin America and Caribbean (ECLAC), the conference is the region's leading intergovernmental forum for the analysis of public policies from a gender perspective.
In the Quito Consensus, countries agree to adopt all necessary affirmative action measures and mechanisms, including legislative reforms and budgetary measures, to ensure the full participation of women in public offic…
Con la aprobación del documento Consenso de Quito por parte de los gobiernos de 33 países participantes en la Décima Conferencia Regional sobre la mujer de América Latina y el Caribe, finalizó hoy en Ecuador el foro intergubernamental más importante de la región para el análisis de políticas públicas desde una perspectiva de género, convocado por la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL).
En el Consenso de Quito los países acuerdan adoptar todas las medidas de acción positiva y todos los mecanismos necesarios, incluidas las reformas legislativas y las asignaciones presupues…
Gender parity, more than a quantitative concept, refers to the redistribution of power in three specific spheres: the labour market, decision-making and family life. The sexual division of labour is a source of inequality between women and men. So states ECLAC in its document "Women's Contribution to Equality in Latin America and the Caribbean," presented to the 10th Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean currently underway in Quito, Ecuador.
This document examines women's contributions to the economy and social protection, especially in relation to unpaid work, which …
La paridad de género, más que un concepto cuantitativo, es la expresión de la redistribución del poder en tres ámbitos específicos: el mercado de trabajo, la toma de decisiones y la vida familiar. La división sexual del trabajo es uno de los núcleos de la desigualdad entre mujeres y hombres. Así lo sostiene la CEPAL en su documento "El aporte de las mujeres a la igualdad en América Latina y el Caribe", presentado ante la Décima Conferencia Regional sobre la mujer de América Latina y el Caribe que se celebra en Quito, Ecuador.
En la segunda sección del documento se analiza la contribución de la…
Chilean President Michelle Bachelet; the First Vice-President, Minister of the Presidency and spokesperson for the government of Spain, María Teresa Fernández de la Vega; and the President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, took part today in the inauguration in Quito of the 10th Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, the region's leading intergovernmental forum for public policy analysis from a gender perspective. The Conference is convened by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), with support from the National Women's Council (Consejo Nacional…
Con la participación de la Presidenta de Chile, Michelle Bachelet; la Vicepresidenta Primera, Ministra de la Presidencia y portavoz del Gobierno de España, María Teresa Fernández de la Vega; y el Presidente de Ecuador, Rafael Correa, se inauguró hoy en Quito la Décima Conferencia Regional sobre la Mujer de América Latina y el Caribe, el foro intergubernamental más importante de la región para el análisis de políticas públicas desde una perspectiva de género. La Conferencia es convocada por la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) y en esta oportunidad cuenta con el apoyo d…
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) today presented its document "Women's Contribution to Equality in Latin America and the Caribbean" to the 10th Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, now underway in Quito, Ecuador. The first section of this document examines gender parity as an objective from which to strengthen democracy.
The ECLAC document notes that political participation is recognized universally as an instrument for women's empowerment and gender equity. The rights women have secured as citi…
La Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) presentó hoy el documento "El aporte de las mujeres a la igualdad en América Latina y el Caribe" ante la Décima Conferencia Regional sobre la mujer de América Latina y el Caribe que se celebra en Quito, Ecuador. En su primera sección se analiza el fenómeno de la paridad como un horizonte deseable para fortalecer la democracia.
El documento de la CEPAL señala que la participación política es reconocida universalmente como instrumento para el empoderamiento de la mujer y la equidad de género. Agrega que los derechos ciudadanos de las …
Women's contribution to equality in Latin America and the Caribbean. El aporte de las mujeres a la igualdad en América Latina y el Caribe. La contribution des femmes à l'égalité en Amérique latine et dans les Caraïbes. A Comissão Econômica para a América Latina e o Caribe
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has been monitoring progress of gender-sensitive public policies for more than a decade. Faithful to its mandate, ECLAC has proposed a rights-based development framework in order to produce positive synergies between economic growth and social equi…