(19 November 2013) Speaking today at a meeting in Abu Dhabi, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, stated that the region needs "more inclusion and more well-being", given the high level of inequality and the lack of public goods affecting many citizens.
On Tuesday, the senior United Nations official took part in a plenary session entitled "Regional Perspectives on Global Trends", in the framework of the Second Global Meeting of Regional Organizations.
The meeting, which is being jointly organized by the World Ec…
(27 June 2013) The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, described the risks faced by Latin American economies to regional authorities meeting in Panama City, Panama, and called for a boost to policies that promote innovation, training and employment with rights.
On 26 June, the most senior official of this United Nations regional commission took part in the 6th Ibero-American Conference of Ministers of the Economy and Finance, which is being held as part of preparations for the 23rd Ibero-American Summit of Heads of State a…
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(15 August 2013) Today, official representatives from 38 member countries and associate members of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) adopted the Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development, which contains a series of agreements to strengthen implementation of population and development issues beyond 2014, at the end of the First session of the Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, which was held from 12 to 15 August 2013 in the…
(24 September 2013) According to Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), speaking in New York "Our generation has an unprecedented opportunity to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger in the coming decade. Not only is this an ethical and moral obligation, but it is the only basis for true development and shared prosperity".
The senior official took part in the event What People Want: Global Conversation on the Post-2015 Agenda, organized on 23 September by the United Nations Development Group (UNDG) in the framework of the 68th…
(8 July 2013) Speaking today in New York, United States, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, stated "In Latin America and the Caribbean, we have a historic opportunity to rethink development using equality and environmental sustainability as our compass".
Ms. Bárcena and government officials and representatives from international agencies took part in the high-level session to open the debate on inequality organized by the United Nations General Assembly.
The debate was inaugurated by UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon,…
(July 12, 2013) Government representatives and officials attending the Sixteenth Meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), on Thursday July 11 adopted a set of recommendations on priority issues identified by delegates who attended the Caribbean Forum on Population, Migration and Development, held in Guyana, July 9-10.
The range of proposals included actions to reduce poverty and inequality, promote and protect the rights of vulnerable groups, including older persons, adoles…
(13 February 2013) As part of an official visit to Cuba from Monday 11 February to Friday 15, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, has held various meetings with senior government authorities to assess, inter alia, the support that the Commission will provide in 2013 to the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), of which Cuba holds the pro tempore presidency.
The delegation accompanying the most senior representative of ECLAC consists in Raúl García-Buchaca, Director of the Programme Planning and Operati…
(27 September 2013) The address by Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), at a seminar today in New York, focused on the promotion of social covenants for equality as the basis for structural change in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The senior official was the main speaker at the event The Future of Latin America: Positioning the Region in the Global Scene, which was organized by the Latin American Student Association (LASA) of the School of International and Public Affairs of Columbia University, New York.
The meeting was …
On average, 9% of those aged 15 and over are completely illiterate in Latin American and Caribbean countries (about 38 million people), according to estimates based on official data from UNESCO Institute for Statistics, says a study prepared by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), which examines the main relevant strategies currently developed in the region.
If we consider functional illiteracy (which means the lack of skills and abilities that people need to function in various life situations), the figure is significantly higher - according to the documen…
(28 October 2013) On Monday, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, stated that the challenge of insecurity made it essential to promote social covenants for equality, with initiatives that recognize citizens as autonomous but also vulnerable subjects, as they depend on others to realize their life plans.
The senior United Nations official delivered this message as she took part in the commemoration of the 10th Anniversary of the Declaration on Security in the Americas, which was held at the Headquarters of the Organizat…