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