Thirtieth anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action in Latin American and the Caribbean (Beijing+30)

About Beijing +30

The thirtieth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing, 1995) and the approval of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action will be commemorated in 2025. In resolution 2022/5, of 17 June 2022 on the Thirtieth Anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women, the Economic and Social Council decided that at its sixty-ninth session, in 2025, the Commission on the Status of Women will undertake a review and appraisal of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcomes of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, including an assessment of current challenges that affect the implementation of the Platform for Action and the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of women and its contribution towards the full realization of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (op. 1).

In Latin America and the Caribbean, the process of implementation, follow-up and review of the Beijing Platform for Action is reinforced by the commitments undertaken in the framework of the Regional Gender Agenda, particularly the Buenos Aires Commitment adopted at the XV Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean. Regional Gender Agenda is a meaningful, progressive, and comprehensive roadmap that guides countries’ public policies to achieve gender equality, to guarantee women’s rights, adolescents and girls in all their diversity, the exercise of their autonomy, and the sustainable development of the countries of the region.

Background

National Reports

States are expected to undertake comprehensive national-level reviews of progress made, and challenges encountered in the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, as well as the outcomes of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, completing the questionnaire and submitting the resulting national reports to an online platform no later than 1 June 2024.

The national reports will be used in the preparation of the regional report for Latin America and the Caribbean, and in the preparation of the documentation to be submitted to the Commission on the Status of Women at its sixty-ninth session. More information about the national reports is available at: Guidance note for comprehensive national-level review.

Regional Reports

The Economic and Social Council encouraged the regional commissions to undertake regional reviews so that the outcomes of intergovernmental processes at the regional level could be used in the 2025 review to be undertaken by the Commission at its sixty-ninth session (op. 2).

In Latin America and the Caribbean, the regional report is prepared by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), in coordination with the United Nations Enty for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women).

At the sixty-sixth meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, was held from 4th to 5th December 2024, in ECLAC Headquarters in Santiago, Chile, the countries adopted the Declaration by the Ministers and High-Level Authorities of the National Machineries for the Advancement of Women in Latin America and the Caribbean for the sixty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women. In the Declaration, the countries welcome the working document "Action for equality, development and peace in Latin America and the Caribbean: draft regional report on the review of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Accion, 30 years on, in synergy with the implementation of the Regional Gender Agenda". The countries reaffirm the commitment to take all necessary and progressive measures so that States, as duty bearers, will accelerate the effective implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the Regional Gender Agenda.

Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean