Thu, Aug 14 2025

• Panel 1: Financing for gender equality
  09:30 am to 11:00 am

  Moderator: Sonia Brucke, Deputy Minister for Equality and Non-discrimination of the Ministry for Women’s Affairs of Paraguay
  • Mayra Jiménez, Minister for Women’s Affairs of the Dominican Republic (Intervention - available in Spanish)
  • Mario Marcel, Minister of Finance of Chile (virtual) (Intervention - available in Spanish)
  • Alejandra Claros Borda, Secretary General of the Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean (CAF)
  • Ana María Alonso Giganto, Ambassador-at-large for Feminist Foreign Policy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation of Spain (Intervention - available in Spanish)
  • Ayesha Constable, Coordinator of GirlsCARE
  • Verónica Serafini, Gender and Macroeconomics Specialist of the Latin American Network for Economic and Social Justice (LATINDADD) (Intervention - available in Spanish)
  Statements by delegations

  Video recording of the session

  Mayra Jiménez - Intervención
  Mario Marcel - Intervención
  Ana María Alonso Giganto - Intervención
  Verónica Serafini - Intervención
• Break
  11:00 am to 11:30 am
• Panel 2: Accelerators to generate synergies between the right to care and care for the planet
  11:30 am to 01:15 pm

  Moderator: Mónica Xavier, Director of the National Women’s Institute of the Ministry of Social Development of Uruguay

  • Márcia Lopes, Minister for Women of Brazil
  • Sharon Coburn, Principal Director of the Bureau of Gender Affairs of the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport of Jamaica (Intervention)
  • Tarcila Rivera Zea, Continental Coordinator of the Continental Network of Indigenous Women of the Americas (ECMIA) (Intervention - available in Spanish)
  • Verónica Gómez, Judge, Inter-American Court of Human Rights
  • Stefan Agne, Head of Cooperation of the Delegation of the European Union in Mexico

  Statements by delegations

  Video recording of the session

  Sharon Coburn Robinson - Intervention
  Tarcila Rivera Zea - Intervención
• Break
  01:15 pm to 03:00 pm
• Panel 3: Guidelines for care policies from a gender, territorial and intersectional perspective
  03:00 pm to 04:30 pm

  Moderator: Wendy Pérez, Executive Director of the “Ana María Romero” Plurinational Service for Women and Depatriarchalization of the Plurinational State of Bolivia

  • Presentation of the document Guidelines for care policies from a gender, territorial and intersectional perspective, prepared by ECLAC, the Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean of UN-Women, the Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean of the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), by Lucía Scuro, Senior Social Affairs Officer of the Division for Gender Affairs of ECLAC

  Comments:
  • Clara Brugada Molina, Mayor of Mexico City (Intervention - available in Spanish)
  • Arlene B. Tickner, Ambassador-at-large for Gender Affairs and Feminist Global Policy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Colombia 
  • Heba Hagrass, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities (Intervention)
  • Paola Yáñez, General Coordinator of the Network of Afro-Latin American, Afro-Caribbean and Diaspora Women (Intervention - available in Spanish)

  Statements by delegations

  Video recording of the session

  Lucia Scuro - PPT: Lineamientos para políticas de cuidado desde una perspectiva de género, territorial e interseccional
  Lucia Scuro - PPT: Guidelines for care policies from a gender, territorial and intersectional perspective
  Clara Brugada Molina - Intervención
  Heba Hagrass - Intervention
  Paola Yáñez - Intervención
• Break
  04:30 pm to 04:45 pm
• Statements by delegations
  04:45 pm to 05:30 pm