Action for equality, development and peace in Latin America and the Caribbean
Thirty years after the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action at the Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing in 1995, they remain a key milestone and a reference in the international and regional human rights agenda, guiding the development of regulatory frameworks and public policies that seek to advance gender equality. The regional commissions of the United Nations prepare reports on the implementation of these instruments in their respective regions, based on national reports.
Pursuant to Economic and Social Council resolution 2022/5 of 17 June 2022, ECLAC prepared the document Action for equality, development and peace in Latin America and the Caribbean. Regional report on the review of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, 30 years on, in synergy with the implementation of the Regional Gender Agenda, 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.
This document is grounded in the synergy between the Regional Gender Agenda and the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and its contribution to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The report addresses regional progress and challenges in gender equality and recommendations to accelerate the realization of gender equality, the safeguarding of the rights of women, adolescents and girls in all their diversity, women’s autonomy, and the sustainable development of countries of the region. It also emphasizes the thematic areas and critical areas of concern relating to the structural challenges of gender inequality in the region, as well as the implementation pillars of the Montevideo Strategy. In addition, the document incorporates the official statistics compiled in the Gender Equality Observatory for Latin America and the Caribbean.
At the Sixty-sixth Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, held in December 2024, countries reaffirmed the commitment to take all necessary and progressive measures so that States, as duty bearers, will accelerate the effective implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the Regional Gender Agenda. In addition, welcomed the working document that was presented with the inputs received as the region's report at the sixty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW69) in March 2025 in New York. At the same meeting, the Declaration of the Ministers and High Authorities of the National Machineries for the Advancement of Women in Latin America and the Caribbean was approved and presented to the sixty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (press release on the closing of the meeting).
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