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Gender statistics
Gender statistics adequately reflect gender dfferences and inequalities in all areas of life. They play an important role in the elimination of stereotypes, in the formulation of public policies and in their follow-up for the achievement of gender equality.
Activities
Twenty-fourth meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC
The twenty-fourth meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas will be held virtually from 29 to 30 April 2025.
56th Session of the United Nations Statistical Commission
The Statistical Commission as the primary body for the coordination of the global statistical programmes in general and of the United Nations statistical and data-related system.
Twenty-third meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC
This twenty-third meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas was held from 28 to 29 August 2024, at the headquarters of ECLAC in Santiago, Chile.
News
The Division for Gender Affairs presented the Regional Gender Agenda and the concept of the Care Society during the high-level dialogue: "Towards a Roadmap for the Care Economy in the Arab region."
The high-level dialogue took place on February 18 and 19 in Amman, Jordan. The event was organized by the Arab Women Organization (AWO), in collaboration with UN Women, UN ESCWA, and the ILO.
ECLAC and ILO Call on Countries in the Region to Adopt Regulations to Increase Time for Care in Latin America and the Caribbean
Today, the two United Nations organizations launched a bulletin titled Time for care in Latin America and the Caribbean: Towards social and gender co-responsibility.
The Care Society: Acting Today for a Better Future
By José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Secretary of ECLAC
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Time-use measurements in Latin America and the Caribbean
“Information systems: transforming data into information, information into knowledge and knowledge into political decisions” Pillar 9 of the Montevideo Strategy for Implementation of the Regional…
