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1 January 2016 | News

2030 agenda for sustainable development

Centred on sustainable development and based on equality as an aim and as an ethical principle.

24 June 2015 | News

ECLAC Highlights Strategic Regional Action in Defining Sustainable Development Goals for the Caribbean

Symposium is being held in Trinidad and Tobago organized by the UN Commission, with the support of the Caribbean Development Bank.

22 June 2015 | News

Trinidad and Tobago will host a Symposium on Sustainable Development Goals for the Caribbean

The meeting will take place from 24-25 June and is organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), with the support of the Caribbean Development Bank.

photo of César Núñez, Regional Director of UNAIDS for Latin America, and Alicia Bárcena, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary.

24 March 2015 | News

ECLAC and UNAIDS Sign Agreement to Support the Regional Response to HIV/AIDS

The memorandum of understanding was signed by Alicia Bárcena, the Commission’s Executive Secretary, and César Núñez, Regional Director of UNAIDS for Latin America.

22 May 2014 | News

UN Women Calls on Global Citizens to Bring Gender Equality into Focus

100 session of the Internacional Labour Conference

1 June 2011 | News

The International Labour Organization opens its historic 100th International Labour Conference

The International Labour Organization opens its historic 100th International Labour Conference here on 1 June with a call for a new era of social justice amid high global unemployment and underemployment, and public concern over the employment situation after the recent global financial crisis

27 May 2011 | News

ECLAC Launched Regional Broadband Observatory

The Observatory will be an important source of information for the design and monitoring of public policies aimed at universalizing broadband" - these were the worlds of the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, speaking at the ECLAC headquarters in Santiago, Chile, as she opened the third meeting of the Regional Dialogue on the Costs of International Connections and their Impact on Broadband Prices

16 May 2011 | News

Global economic crisis opens up new space for discrimination at work, ILO says

In the new Global Report on Equality at Work 2011, the International Labour Office (ILO) notes that in spite of continuous positive advances in anti-discrimination legislation, the global economic and social crisis has led to a higher risk of discrimination against certain groups such as migrant labour.

Día Mundial del Paludismo 2011: Alcanzando Progreso e Impacto

25 April 2011 | News

World Malaria Day 2011: Achieving Progress and Impact

Malaria is a leading killer of children under five years of age. Success in this fight is crucial to improving the health of women and children around the world, especially in Africa, and in generating progress towards the health-related Millennium Development Goals (UN Secretary-General's message on World Malaria Day).

7 April 2011 | News

World Health Day 2011

Antimicrobial resistance: no action today, no cure tomorrow

24 January 2011 | News

Read the comic book: "Score the Goals"

With only four years until the 2015 deadline for achieving the MDGs, the challenge remains to make children fully aware of them and of the important role they can play in achieving them

Combating Poverty and Inequality: Structural Change, Social Policy and Politics

3 September 2010 | News

UN study emphasises economic growth as a poverty reduction strategy to meet the target in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015

The report by the UN Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) explores the causes, dynamics and persistence of poverty, as well as what works and what does not in international policy and practice.