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11 Aug 2025 | InfographicsRepository on Time Use in Latin America and the Caribbean, 2025
The Repository on Time Use in Latin America and the Caribbean, created in 2007 and administered by the Gender Equality Observatory (GEO) of ECLAC, houses databases, indicators, and metadata provided by national statistical offices from countries with official time-use measurements. To promote comparability, the activities contained in these databases are harmonized at the two-digit level based on ...
6 Aug 2025 | ECLAC PublicationThe Care Society: Governance, Political Economy and Social Dialogue for a Transformation with Gender Equality
This document examines scenarios for achieving the care society and proposes how to effect this change, with assessments and recommendations that underscore governance, political economy and social dialogue, along with cultural change, measurement and financing, as key elements to bring about vital transformations for sustainable development with gender equality....
5 Aug 2025 | ECLAC PublicationGuidelines for care policies from a gender, territorial and intersectional perspective
This document outlines the rationale for implementing care policies with a territorial approach, examines the extent to which, and the ways in which, care policies are implemented in politically, socially, economically and culturally heterogeneous territories in the region, looks at the challenges involved in implementing these policies and sets out guidelines for designing and implementing care p...
1 Aug 2025 | ECLAC PublicationThe right to care in Latin America and the Caribbean: progress on the regulatory front
The human right to care is essential for the sustainability of life and the planet and is one of the human rights recognized by international covenants and treaties as applying to everyone. As the Buenos Aires Commitment (2022) states, the right to care is based on the principles of equality, universality and social and gender co-responsibility. This right, whose foundations also include non-discr...
25 Apr 2025 | Newsletter for gender equalityGender Equality Bulletin - N°5. Bridges for gender equality between Latin America and the Caribbean and Germany: Criteria and priorities for a regional feminist development cooperation policy
The document presents the outcomes of the project “Success criteria for a feminist development cooperation policy specific to Latin America and the Caribbean” developed under the Strategic Alliance between the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany (BMZ) and carried out by the ECLAC Division for G...
3 Apr 2025 | ECLAC PublicationThe 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Regional Gender Agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean: gender indicators up to 2024
Latin America and the Caribbean has made considerable efforts to achieve gender equality. Now the region must consolidate advances and fulfil commitments by accelerating progress towards substantive equality and the full exercise of rights for all women and girls....
2 Apr 2025 | ECLAC PublicationLatin America and the Caribbean in the Final Five Years of the 2030 Agenda: Steering Transformations to Accelerate Progress
Five years from the deadline for achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Latin America and the Caribbean, progress has fallen short of expectations a decade ago when the journey began. In 2025, these factors have been compounded by geopolitical tensions and disruptions that may pose new obstacles for achievement of the SDGs, as well as new opportunities. Amid this complex lands...
7 Mar 2025 | ECLAC PublicationAction for equality, development and peace in Latin America and the Caribbean
The present document, prepared by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), is based on 25 reports prepared by countries and territories in Latin America and the Caribbean, which in turn are based on comprehensive national 30-year reviews of the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (Beijing+30), adopted at the Fourth World Conference on Women, in synergy wit...
6 Mar 2025 | Newsletter for gender equalityGender Equality Bulletin - Nº4. Time for care in Latin America and the Caribbean: towards social and gender co-responsibility
This bulletin, prepared jointly by ECLAC and ILO, presents an analysis of the status of maternity, paternity and parental leave in Latin America and the Caribbean. It also outlines the challenge of advancing measures such as parental leave, long-term care leave and urgent leave, as well as the shortening of the working day and more flexible arrangements in terms of both hours and places of work. T...
31 Dec 2024 | ECLAC PublicationSocial Panorama of Latin America and the Caribbean, 2024: the challenges of non-contributory social protection in advancing towards inclusive social development
This edition of the Social Panorama of Latin America and the Caribbean, 2024 focuses on the challenges of non-contributory social protection in advancing towards inclusive social development in the region. Tackling the development crisis, inclusive social development gaps and changing risk structure demands progress towards universal, comprehensive, sustainable and resilient social protection syst...
1 Dec 2024 | ECLAC PublicationFinancing care systems and policies in Latin America and the Caribbean: Contributions for a sustainable recovery with gender equality
In Latin America and the Caribbean, care has gradually been placed at the centre of public agendas, albeit unevenly, as a result of growing political commitments, as well as the work of women’s movements and feminist economic studies. These contributions have focused on the need to reorganize and redistribute care work as a key factor in more egalitarian and inclusive societies....
22 Nov 2024 | Feminicide Violence in Figures BulletinFemicidal Violence in Figures Bulletin. Latin America and the Caribbean - Nº3. Urgent action to prevent and eliminate femicides
In 2023, at least 11 women were murdered every day for gender reasons in Latin America and the Caribbean. This number shows that, 30 years after the Beijing Declaration of Action and Platform and the Belém do Pará Convention and the regulatory advances developed by countries, feminicide is still present in the region and is the extreme expression of patriarchal and violent patterns. The document c...
2 Sep 2024 | Other ECLAC PublicationsTowards mainstreaming the gender perspective in statistical production in Latin America and the Caribbean
The Latin American and Caribbean countries have made progress towards mainstreaming the gender perspective in official statistical production, in line with the agreements adopted in the Regional Gender Agenda. At the thirteenth session of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, held in 2016, the governments of the region agreed to “transforming data into information, i...
