Programme

Mon, Dec 01 2025

Opening session of the sixty-seventh meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

10:00 am to 10:20 am

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

• Bibiana Aido Almagro, Regional Director for the Americas and the Caribbean of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) (opening remarks)

• Gabriela Rivadeneira, Director General of Technical Cooperation, Ministry for Women of Mexico (opening remarks - available in Spanish)

Video

José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs - Discurso de apertura

Bibiana Aido Almagro - Discurso de apertura

Bibiana Aido Almagro - Opening remarks

Gabriela Rivadeneira - Discurso de apertura
Adoption of the agenda

10:20 am to 10:30 am
Report on 2025 by the secretariat of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

10:30 am to 11:00 am

Presented by:

• Ana Güezmes García, Chief of the Division for Gender Affairs of ECLAC (presentation)

Statements by delegations

Video
Decade of action to achieve substantive gender equality and the care society (2025–2035): proposed road map and country reports on plans for implementation of the Tlatelolco Commitment

11:00 am to 01:00 pm

Presented by:

• Gabriela Rivadeneira, Director General of Technical Cooperation, Ministry for Women of Mexico (presentation)

Statements by delegations

Video
Break

01:00 pm to 02:00 pm
Briefing on draft general recommendation No. 41 on gender stereotypes, of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women

02:00 pm to 03:30 pm

Presented by:

• Rhoda Reddock, Vice-Chair of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, representing the Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC) (presentation)

Comments:

• Patsilí Toledo, Expert with the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (intervention)

Statements by delegations

Video

Rhoda Reddock - Presentation

Patsilí Toledo - Intervention
Initiative for a biregional pact on care between Latin America and the Caribbean and the European Union

03:30 pm to 04:15 pm

• Tamara Ospina, Vice-Minister for Women of the Ministry of Equality and Equity of Colombia (virtual) (intervention - available in Spanish)

• Claudia Gintersdorfer, Ambassador of the European Union in Chile

• Anna Barrera, representative of the EU-LAC Foundation (virtual)

• Leire Pajín, Vice-Chair of the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (virtual)

• Lucy Garrido, Communication and Campaigns Coordinator for Articulación Feminista Marcosur (AFM) (virtual)

Statements by delegations

Video

Tamara Ospina - Intervención

Leire Pajín - Intervención

Tue, Dec 02 2025

Special session: regional consultation prior to the seventieth session of the Commission on the Status of Women

10:00 am to 10:30 am

Priority theme: “Ensuring and strengthening access to justice for all women and girls, including by promoting inclusive and equitable legal systems, eliminating discriminatory laws, policies, and practices, and addressing structural barriers”

Introductory remarks:

• Maritza Chan Valverde, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Costa Rica to the United Nations and Chair of the Bureau of the seventieth session of the Commission on the Status of Women designated by the Latin American and Caribbean Group (video link)

Presented by:

• Bibiana Aido Almagro, Regional Director for the Americas and the Caribbean of UN-Women

• Ana Güezmes García, Chief of the Division for Gender Affairs of ECLAC

See presentation

Video
Panel 1: Overcoming barriers and discrimination through regulatory frameworks and justice systems

10:30 am to 12:20 pm

Moderator: Jennifer Feller Enríquez, Director General for Human Rights and Democracy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico

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

• Luz Patricia Mejía, Technical Secretary of the Follow-up Mechanism to the Belém do Pará Convention (MESECVI)

• Julissa Mantilla Falcón, Lecturer at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (intervention - available in Spanish)

• Paola Yáñez, General Coordinator of the Network of Afro-Latin American, Afro-Caribbean and Diaspora Women (intervention - available in Spanish)

Discussion and statements by delegations

Video

Antonia Orellana - Intervención

Julissa Mantilla Falcón - Intervención

Paola Yáñez - Intervención
Statement by the Committee of Non-Governmental Organizations on the Condition of Women from Latin America and the Caribbean (CoNGO CSW LAC)

12:20 pm to 12:30 pm
Break

12:30 pm to 01:30 pm
Panel 2: Drivers of change to ensure access to justice for women, adolescents and girls

01:30 pm to 03:15 pm

Moderator: Carolina Alvarado, Directora de Derechos Integrales de la Mujer del Ministerio de la Mujer de la República Dominicana (virtual)

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

• Gloria Ann Thomas, Senator and Minister for Social and Community Development, Housing and Gender Affairs of Grenada (virtual) (intervention)

• Roberta Clarke, Commissioner of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) (virtual)

• Norma Don Juan Pérez, member of Coordinadora Nacional de Mujeres Indígenas (CONAMI) of Mexico, representing the Continental Network of Indigenous Women of the Americas (ECMIA) (intervention - available in Spanish)

• Mónica Soto, Magistrate with the Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judiciary of Mexico and Chair of the Observatory on Gender Equality of the Global Network on Electoral Justice (virtual) (intervention - available in Spanish)

Discussion and statements by delegations

Video

Gloria Ann Thomas - Intervention

Norma Don Juan Pérez - Intervención

Mónica Soto - Intervención
Report on the Regional Fund in support of Women’s and Feminist Organizations and Movements

03:15 pm to 03:45 pm

• Report of the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Regional Fund, presented by Gabriela Rivadeneira, Director General of Technical Cooperation, Ministry for Women of Mexico (intervention - available in Spanish)

• 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 and ad interim representative in Argentina of UN-Women (intervention)

• Mariana Iacono, Communications Officer, International Community of Women Living with HIV (ICW), representing women’s and feminist organizations that are members of the Regional Fund

Discussion and statements by delegations

Video

Gabriela Rivadeneira - Intervención

Cecilia Alemany - Intervención

Cecilia Alemany - Intervention
Other matters

03:45 pm to 04:00 pm
Consideration and adoption of agreements

04:00 pm to 04:15 pm
Closing session

04:15 pm to 04:45 pm

• Ana Güezmes García, Chief of the Division for Gender Affairs of ECLAC (closing remarks - available in Spanish)

• Bibiana Aido Almagro, Regional Director for the Americas and the Caribbean of UN-Women (closing remarks)

• Citlalli Hernández Mora, Minister for Women of Mexico (virtual) (closing remarks- available in Spanish)

Video

Ana Güezmes García - Discurso de clausura

Bibiana Aido Almagro - Discurso de clausura

Bibiana Aido Almagro - Closing remarks

Citlalli Hernández Mora - Discurso de clausura

Sixty-seventh meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

Santiago (hybrid meeting), 1 - 2 December 2025

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