Wed, Dec 04 2024

• Opening session of the sixty-sixth meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean
  10:00 am to 10:45 am

  • José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) (Intervention - available in Spanish)

  • Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda, United Nations Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director for Normative Support, United Nations System Coordination and Programme Results at the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) (Intervention)

  • Ingrid Gómez Saracibar, Vice-Minister for issues of violence against women in the Ministry for Women of Mexico, in her capacity as Vice-Chair of the Presiding Officers (Intervention - available in Spanish)

  José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs - Intervención
  Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda - Intervención
  Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda - Intervention
  Ingrid Gómez Saracibar - Intervención
• Adoption of the agenda
  10:45 am to 11:00 am
• Official photograph of delegations and coffee break
  11:00 am to 11:30 am
• Report on the Gender Equality Observatory for Latin America and the Caribbean
  11:30 am to 12:15 pm

  • Lucía Scuro, Senior Social Affairs Officer of the Division for Gender Affairs of ECLAC (Presentation)

  Statements by delegations

  Lucia Scuro - PPT: Observatorio de Igualdad de Género de América Latina y el Caribe (OIG)
  Lucia Scuro - PPT: Gender Equality Observatory for Latin America and the Caribbean (OIG)
• Report on the Regional Fund in support of Women’s and Feminist Organizations and Movements
  12:15 pm to 01:00 pm

  • Report of the Americas and the Caribbean Regional Office of UN-Women, in its capacity as administrative body, presented by Cecilia Alemany, Deputy Regional Director for the Americas and the Caribbean of UN-Women (Intervention)

  • Lucy Garrido, Communication and Campaigns Coordinator for Cotidiano Mujer and Articulación Feminista Marcosur, representing women’s and feminist organizations and networks comprising the Regional Fund

  Statements by delegations

  Cecilia Alemany - Intervención
  Cecilia Alemany - Intervention
• Special regional consultation session prior to the sixty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women
  02:30 pm to 04:00 pm

  Focus: Review and appraisal of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcomes of the twenty-third special session  of the General Assembly 

  Introductory remarks:

  • Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda, United Nations Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director for Normative Support, United Nations System Coordination and Programme Results of UN-Women

  • Cindy Quesada Hernández, Minister for the Status of Women of Costa Rica and representative of the country serving as Vice-Chair of the Bureau of the sixty-eighth session of the Commission on the Status of Women designated by the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States

  Presentation of the document Action for equality, development and peace in Latin America and the Caribbean: draft regional report on the review of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 30 years after its adoption in synergy with the implementation of the Regional Gender Agenda

  • Ana Güezmes García, Chief of the Division for Gender Affairs of ECLAC (Presentation)
  Ana Güezmes García - PPT: Presentación del documento Acción para la igualdad, el desarrollo y la paz en América Latina y el Caribe
  Ana Güezmes García - PPT: Action for equality, development and peace in Latin America and the Caribbean
• Coffee break
  04:00 pm to 04:15 pm
• Special regional consultation session prior to the sixty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (continued)
  04:15 pm to 05:20 pm

  Comments:

  • Mayra Jiménez, Minister for Women’s Affairs of the Dominican Republic (Intervention - available in Spanish)

  • Antonia Orellana, Minister of Women’s Affairs and Gender Equity of Chile (Intervention - available in Spanish)

  • Virginia Vargas, co-founder of the Flora Tristán Centre of Peru and member of Articulación Feminista Marcosur

  Closing remarks:

  • María-Noel Vaeza, Regional Director for the Americas and the Caribbean of UN-Women

  Statements by delegations

  Antonia Orellana - Intervención
  Mayra Jiménez - Intervención
• Reading of the civil society statements
  05:20 pm to 05:30 pm

  Manifesto NGO CSW LAC_ing

  Proclama de Redes y Organizaciones Feministas 66MDM_ing