ECLAC Proposes that Caribbean Focus Efforts on Gender Equality, Climate Change and Debt Relief to Meet 2030 Agenda

In the current world context, the countries of the Caribbean must focus on closing the structural gaps they still have, particularly with regard to gender equality, financial and fiscal sustainability (due to their high debt level), and mitigating the effects of climate change, in order to meet the commitments adopted under the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda and its 17 Goals (SDGs). This was pointed out by Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary for the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) during an event held in New York. The international senior official was the k…

Commemoration in Havana of 40 Years of Advancement of Women’s Equality and Rights in the Region with a Focus on Pending Challenges

Government authorities, international officials and representatives of civil society in Havana, Cuba today looked back on the policies in favor of gender equality and women’s rights implemented over the past 40 years in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, which make up the Regional Gender Agenda, and debated the main challenges that lie ahead. This Thursday, October 5, the Fifty-Sixth Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean was inaugurated at the Hotel Nacional de Cuba. It was organized by the Economic Commission fo…

Latin America and the Caribbean Faces the Challenge of Boosting Women’s Participation in Science, Technology and Innovation

Latin America and the Caribbean must expand women’s participation in science, technology and innovation to make progress on gender equality and achieve inclusive and sustainable development, authorities, specialists and international officials agreed today at the inauguration of the Gender Summit 12 being held at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile. “It is truly an honor that this first Summit for Latin America and the Caribbean is taking place in Chile, and I say this as the president and as a woman who has worked for the …

Provisional agenda. Fifty-sixth meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

Ministers and Senior Officials for Women’s Affairs Review at ECLAC the Implementation of the Montevideo Strategy for Gender Equality

Ministers and senior officials from mechanisms for women’s advancement in the region are participating this Thursday and Friday, May 25-26, in the fifty-fifth meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean to review implementation of the Montevideo Strategy, approved in October 2016 to achieve gender equality, rights guarantees and women’s autonomy. The gathering was inaugurated by Mariella Mazzotti, Director of the National Women’s Institute (Inmujeres) of Uruguay – in that country’s capacity as Chair of the Presiding Officers of the R…