Side event: The Buenos Aires Commitment and its contribution to multilateralism

In the framework of the 67th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW 67), the Government of the Republic of Argentina, in its capacity as Chair of the Presiding Officers elected at the XV Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean (November, 2022), together with the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), as Secretariat of the Conference, and in coordination with the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women), are organizing the side event "The Buenos Aires Commitment and its contribution to multilateralism", with the objective of presenting this intergovernmental agreement as a contribution of Latin America and the Caribbean to the deliberations of the CSW67 at the United Nations.

The Buenos Aires Commitment proposes a way forward towards a care society, with agreements in innovative areas for a transformative recovery with gender equality and sustainability. It recognizes care as a need, a job and a right of people to care, to be cared for and to exercise self-care, and calls for the promotion of measures to overcome the sexual division of labour and to move towards a fair social organization of care, within the framework of a new development pattern that promotes gender equality in the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development.