The Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, one of the subsidiary bodies of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), is the foremost intergovernmental forum of the United Nations on women’s rights and gender equality in the region. Its sessions are organized by ECLAC, as secretariat of the Conference, and since 2020 in coordination
with the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women). It is convened on a regular basis, at least every three years, to analyse the status of women’s autonomy and rights at the regional and subregional levels, present recommendations regarding public policies on gender equality, and undertake periodic assessments of the policies, programmes and initiatives implemented in fulfilment of regional and international agreements on the subject.