WHAT: Fourth Regional Seminar on Social Development “Social Protection and Inequality: Latin America and the Caribbean towards the Second World Summit for Social Development of 2025”
Organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), this event will take place on June 25-27, 2024, using a hybrid format, with the participation of senior government officials, academics and specialists from international organizations.
The seminar – which will be inaugurated on Tuesday, June 25 at 9:30 a.m. local time in Chile (GMT-4) at ECLAC’s main headquarters in Santiago …
Government authorities, United Nations officials and representatives of civil society urged for providing urgent support to Caribbean countries so they can advance on fulfilling the 2030 Agenda’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in a context of acute financial weakness due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact of natural disasters, among other factors, during a session of the fourth meeting of the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development.
The panel entitled Building forward better in the Caribbean post-COVID-19: Critical issues to keep the 2030…
(4 October, 2013) International migration is a phenomenon with specific regional characteristics, which were presented by the Deputy Executive Secretary of ECLAC, Antonio Prado, at the Second High-Level Dialogue on International Migration and Development, which is being held as part of the 68th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
On behalf of the five UN regional commissions, the senior official from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) presented the main messages from discussions organized by the commissions in collaboration with th…
Government officials from Latin America and the Caribbean, representatives from civil-society organizations and the community met in Lima, Peru, on 17 and 18 September 2013 to explore innovative models in health, education, youth, child labour and school/family violence, with a view to replicating them in their countries of origin to benefit the most disadvantaged groups in the region.
The Workshop on replicating social innovation models was organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Ibero-American General Secretariat (SEGIB), with support from th…
(15 October 2010) The contribution that information and communications technologies (ICTs) can make to social development, especially in the fields of education and health, will be examined during an international seminar to be held at ECLAC headquarters in Santiago, Chile on Wednesday, 20 October.
The seminar Social Policies and the Information Society: Gaps, Opportunities and Rights is organized by ECLAC's Social Development Division with the support of the European Union through its cooperation initiative LIS.
The event will discuss the most significant ICT issues and their contribution to …