Latin America & the Caribbean
The LAC region is set upon devising a Forum of the Countries of Latin American and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development. It will be the space for the follow-up and review the implementation of the 2030 Agenda at the regional level.
This Forum will be agreed under the Thirty-Sixth Session of ECLAC that will take place in Mexico, 23-27 of May. It is expected that at some point in 2016 and 2017 the regional discussions on the follow up of the Financing for Development process at the regional level takes place as well.
The region has a working group to engage collectively in the process. The aims of this working group is to maintain the integrity of the regional instruments, such as Montevideo Consensus and others, when devising the follow-up and review, indicators and implementation for the 2030 Agenda at the regional level.
The WMG OP focal point for Latin American and the Caribbean is the Equidad de Género: Ciudadanía, Trabajo y Familia. For more information, please access here
Nos quieren dejar atrás. Y no lo vamos a aceptar!
Read the combined Latein America and Caribbean Civil Society Declaration on the Second Latein America Forum 2030 in Spanish. Condenamos que los gobiernos firmantes de la Declaración Intergubernament [...]
HLPF 2017: Lucía Berro Pizzarossa’s intervention on VNR 8 “Belarus, Portugal and Uruguay”
"If we continue to lead the regional rankings on gender based violence, if we continue to decouple economic growth and sustainability, if sexual and reproductive rights continue to be an “annex”, [...]
Moving Forward: WMG of Latin America and the Caribbean Call
The WMG of Latin America and the Caribbean had a call on updates and moving forward. The call available only in Spanish presents review about the Habitat III, COP 22 and other themes, as well, discu [...]
UN General Assembly Special Session on Population and Development: Ana Cristina Gonzalez Veles’s Intervention
Read Ana Cristina Gonzalez Velez's (Articulacion Feminista Mercosur) intervention on behalf of the Women's Major Group at the UN General Assembly Special Session on Population and Development, held [...]