Wed, Aug 13 2025

• Collection of credentials
  08:30 am to 01:30 pm

  Entrance hall on the first floor of the Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco.

• Election of Presiding Officers and adoption of the agenda
  09:30 am to 10:00 am

  Video screening of the XVI Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

• Presentation of the position paper "The Care Society: Governance, Political Economy and Social Dialogue for a Transformation with Gender Equality"
  10:00 am to 10:30 am

  Moderator: Roberto de León, Director General, Office of the Chief of Staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico
  Presented by:
  • José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Secretary of ECLAC

  Video recording of the session

  José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs - La sociedad del cuidado: gobernanza, economía política y diálogo social para una transformación con igualdad de género
  José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs - The Care Society: Governance, Political Economy and Social Dialogue for a Transformation with Gender Equality
  José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs - La société du soin:gouvernance, économie politique et dialogue social pour une transformation favorisant l’égalité des sexes
• Comments on the position paper
  10:30 am to 11:00 am

  • Paula Narváez Ojeda, Permanent Representative of Chile to the United Nations (Intervention - available in Spanish)
  • Rhoda Reddock, Vice-Chair of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, representing the Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC) (Intervention)
  • María-Noel Vaeza, Regional Director for the Americas and the Caribbean of UN-Women
  • Laura Pautassi, Lead Researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) of Argentina and Chair of the Board of Directors of the Latin American Justice and Gender Team (ELA) (Intervention - available in Spanish)
  • Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
  • Citlalli Hernández Mora, Minister for Women of Mexico (Intervention)

  Paula Narváez Ojeda - Intervención
  Rhoda Reddock - Intervention
  Laura Pautassi - Intervención
  Citlalli Hernández Mora - Intervención
  Citlalli Hernández Mora - Intervention
• Break
  11:00 am to 11:15 am
• Statements by delegations
  11:15 am to 12:45 pm
• Stakeholder contributions
  12:45 pm to 01:15 pm

  • Feminist forum
  • Academic forums
  • Local government forum
  • Parliamentary forum

• Break
  01:15 pm to 03:00 pm
• Dialogue of high-level authorities on the care society: governance, political economy and social dialogue for a transformation with gender equality
  03:00 pm to 04:30 pm

  Moderator: Enrique Ochoa, Deputy Minister of Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico

  Statements by delegations

  Video recording of the statements by heads of delegation

  Video recording of the statements by agencies, funds and programmes, and intergovernmental organizations

• Break
  04:30 pm to 04:45 pm
• Relaunch of the Gender Equality Observatory for Latin America and the Caribbean
  04:45 pm to 05:30 pm

  Moderator: Yerlin Zúñiga Céspedes, Executive President of the National Women’s Institute of Costa Rica
  Presented by: Ana Güezmes García, Chief of the Division for Gender Affairs of ECLAC
  Comments:
  • Teresa Amarelle, Secretary General of the Federation of Cuban Women (Intervention - available in Spanish)
  • Cristina Hernández Martín, Director of the Institute of Women, Ministry of Equality of Spain
  • Lucy Garrido, Coordinator of the ISOQuito initiative of Articulación Feminista Marcosur (AFM) (Intervention - available in Spanish)

  Statements by delegations

  Video recording of the session

  Ana Güezmes García - Presentación: Migración tecnológica y rediseño del Observatorio de Igualdad de Género de América Latina y el Caribe (OIG)
  Ana Güezmes García - Technology migration and redesign of theGender Equality Observatory for Latin America and the Caribbean
  Teresa Amarelle - Intervención
  Lucy Garrido - Intervención
• Cultural event organized by the government of Mexico City at the Palacio de Bellas Artes: gala presentation of the Cuauhtémoc opera (in the Indigenous language Nahuatl)
  07:30 pm to 08:30 pm