Publications
This section presents publications produced by ECLAC in collaboration with other organizations, classified according to the type of resources and topics related to gender equality.
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29 May 2026 | Publicación CEPALTlatelolco Commitment: A Decade of Action to Achieve Substantive Gender Equality and the Care Society
The Tlatelolco Commitment: A Decade of Action to Achieve Substantive Gender Equality and the Care Society was adopted by the member States of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) at the sixteenth session of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, held in Mexico City in August 2025.… -
24 Mar 2026 | Publicación CEPALWhat is the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean?
The Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, one of the subsidiary bodies of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), is the main United Nations intergovernmental forum on women’s rights and gender equality in the region. It is organized by ECLAC, as the Secretariat of the Conference, and, since 2020, in coordination with the United Nations Entit… -
5 Mar 2026 | Publicación CEPALAccess to justice for women and girls in Latin America and the Caribbean
This document was developed in preparation for the seventieth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW70), whose priority theme is “ensuring and strengthening access to justice for women and girls by promoting inclusive and equitable legal systems, eliminating discriminatory laws, policies, and practices, and addressing structural barriers that limit the effective exercise of their ri… -
11 Aug 2025 | InfografíaRepository 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 | Publicación CEPALThe 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 | Publicación CEPALGuidelines 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 | Publicación CEPALThe 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… -
3 Apr 2025 | Publicación CEPALThe 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 | Publicación CEPALLatin 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… -
25 Mar 2025 | Publicaciones de organismos internacionalesTransforming Care Systems in the Context of the Sustainable Development Goals and Our Common Agenda. UN System Policy Paper
The outcome of two consultations on care societies and the SDGs – held in November 2022 and February 2023 – this document serves as practical guidance for UN Agencies at the country, regional and global level to address care within the context of the SDGs and Our Common Agenda. It aims to inform and harmonize UN Agency efforts on care by offering definitions, guiding principles, approaches and pol… -
7 Mar 2025 | Publicación CEPALAction 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 | Boletín Igualdad de GéneroGender 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… -
12 Jan 2025 | Publicación CEPALThe Care Society: Governance, Political Economy and Social Dialogue for a Transformation with Gender Equality. Executive summary
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.… -
31 Dec 2024 | Publicación CEPALSocial 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…
