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