Gender equality
Gender equality entails ensuring equal rights for women and men, both in terms of regulations and laws (formal equality) and opportunities and results (substantive equality). Gender equality, women’s autonomy and the care society are a condition, a path and a catalyst for sustainable development.
Activities
Workshop on Gender Statistics and Analysis
The importance of gender-responsive policy making and implementation cannot be over-emphasized. Gender-responsive policies represent a set of tools for ensuring equity and contribute to promoting the Leave No One Behind promise of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. An essential input in gender-responsive policy formulation is quality, sex-disaggregated data. Ensuring that everyone who handles, analyzes, utilizes or disseminates data has the requisite capacity in gender statistics is therefore crucial to effective policy making.
Stakeholder review of regional study on Technology-Facilitated Gender-based Violence (TFGBV) against women in public life
Regional Dialogue to present and discuss the findings of Caribbean study on TFGBV and develop advocacy strategy, through high-level knowledge sharing, for safer digital spaces for all.
Youth Tourpreneurship Bootcamp: Dominica and Saint Lucia
To guide young people in Antigua & Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Lucia, Saint Kitts & Nevis, and Saint Vincent & the Grenadines into seeing tourism not as something that only large tour companies, hotels and cruise ships run, but as something they too can do, while placing them on a path to self-sustainability.
II Parliamentary Summit on Climate Change and Just Transition of Latin America and the Caribbean
The II Parliamentary Summit on Climate Change and Just Transition of Latin America and the Caribbean will take place on August 6–7, 2025, at the National Congress in Brasília. The event will gather legislators from across the region to align strategies in preparation for the 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30).
News
ECLAC addressed the right to care at the First Inter-American Seminar on Human Rights, organized by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
Ana Güezmes, Director of the Division of Gender Affairs of ECLAC, participated in a panel that addressed the right to care from regional and human rights perspectives, in dialogue with normative advances and the commitments adopted by the States of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Latin America and the Caribbean Makes Headway with Concrete Actions for Gender Equality and the Care Society
Today marked the end of the Sixty-Seventh Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, held in Chile using a hybrid format.
Concrete Actions are Needed to Implement the Tlatelolco Commitment on Gender Equality and the Care Society
Women’s Affairs Ministers and other high-level authorities from the region are participating in the Sixty-Seventh Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, inaugurated today at ECLAC’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile.
Ministers and Senior Authorities Will Meet to Discuss Implementation of the Tlatelolco Commitment and Participate in a Consultation Prior to the CSW70
The Sixty-Seventh Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean will take place on December 1-2 using a hybrid format from ECLAC’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile.