(1 October, 2013) The situation of Latin American and Caribbean women is once more at the heart of regional debate thanks to the meeting organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) to review fulfilment of national gender equality commitments.
The 12th session of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean will be held from 15 to 18 October 2013 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, to bring together authorities, experts, international officials and representatives from civil society and the business sector.
Organized by ECLAC and th…
A few months before the thirty-fifth session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) is to be held in Lima, Peru, representatives of the Peruvian government and officials from the United Nations organization agreed to launch the project "Political Dialogue for the Economic Empowerment and Autonomy of Women."
The project -which will get technical assistance from ECLAC, specifically from the Economic Development and Gender Affairs divisions- aims to bring to light the situation of Peruvian women in the productive, labor and economic arenas and identify public poli…
The situation of Latin American and Caribbean women is once more at the heart of regional debate thanks to the meeting organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) to review fulfilment of national gender equality commitments in a few weeks time.
The twelfth session of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean will be held from 15 to 18 October 2013 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, to bring together authorities, experts, international officials and representatives from civil society and the business sector.
Organized b…
Around 40 public policymakers and business sector representatives from Costa Rica met on Monday 18 February in the capital, San José, to discuss the relationship between the productive development of economic growth sectors that introduce technological innovation and the level of female labour participation in such sectors.
This is the main focus of the ECLAC project on the Promotion of productive development through the inclusion of women in quality jobs in Central America, which will be implemented in the next few months in Costa Rica and El Salvador with funding from the German Agency for T…