This document was prepared for the Special Session of Latin America and the Caribbean’s Regional Consultation prior to the Sixty-fith Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW65) to be held virtually on February 24 and 25, 2021 in the framework of the Sixtieth Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean. More
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Within the framework of COP30 on Climate Change, UN Women, together with various regional counterparts, has been weaving a common pathway in which governments, civil society, academia, and international organizations join forces to ensure that gender equality becomes a guiding compass—rather than a footnote—in global negotiations.
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This Policy Brief presents lessons learned from the development and launch of the first Women, Peace and Security (WPS) National Action Plan (NAP) in the Caribbean, led by the Government of Trinidad and Tobago with technical support from UN Women and Our Secure Future (OSF). It highlights the catalytic role of the WPS NAP Academy—co-hosted in Port of Spain in 2024—which served as a platform for peer learning, stakeholder coordination, and strategic engagement across government, civil society, and regional actors. The brief outlines key milestones, best practices, and challenges faced in designing and implementing the WPS NAP
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A regional programme by UN Women with the support of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (2023–2027)
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The member States of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean participating in the sixteenth session of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, gathered from 12 to 15 August 2025 in Tlatelolco, Mexico City, where the first World Conference on Women was held 50 years ago (1975).
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The Caribbean faces severe climate threats, worsened by historical injustices and social inequalities. In this context, care emerges as a survival strategy sustaining life and resilience, especially through the unpaid labor of women. Highlighted at the Caribbean Academic Forum, care is also vital to environmental sustainability. This brief argues that the Caribbean, though vulnerable, offers valuable insights for climate action rooted in interdependence, solidarity, and memory, drawing on UN Women’s regional work.
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This document presents an overview of the progress and challenges related to women's political participation in Latin America and the Caribbean. The region has developed a solid framework of laws and public policies aimed at ensuring the full and effective exercise of women's political rights, with a vision of parity-based democracy grounded in the Regional Gender Agenda.
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This document analyzes gender indicators for monitoring the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda, in alignment with the Regional Gender Agenda stemming from the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean. It focuses particularly on SDGs 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, and 17.
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This document systematizes the learning community “Realities and Challenges on Financing Care Policies and Systems” held in 2024 by UN Women, Oxfam, GAC and other partners. Through six sessions, strategies, challenges and good practices around financing and fiscal sustainability were addressed, seeking a fair and equitable social organization of care.
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In order to generate data that accurately capture the persistence and magnitude of societal inequalities, the gender and intersectional perspectives must be mainstreamed into statistical production. As noted in the Montevideo Strategy for Implementation of the Regional Gender Agenda within the Sustainable Development Framework by 2030 (2016), it is also crucial for “transforming data into information, information into knowledge and knowledge into political decisions” (ECLAC, 2017a).
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The case for a gender-responsive just transition to low-carbon economies, aligned with the Paris Agreement, is supported by growing data on the need for gender equality in these policies. This brief outlines pathways for a just transition, urging governments and stakeholders to commit to concrete actions and accountability. It also provides recommendations for building sustainable economies that ensure the survival and flourishing of the planet for current and future generations.
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Care work encompasses labor that involves caring for others, the planet, and oneself. It is essential for well-being and crucial to a sustainable economy with a productive workforce. Therefore, care should be recognized as a public good and a universal right, as outlined in Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 on gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls. However, globally, women and girls bear an unequal share of unpaid, unrecognized, and undervalued care work.
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El documento de trabajo “Política exterior feminista: Soluciones para un mejor mañana” recopila los principales insumos preliminares, propuestas y recomendaciones emanadas de las sesiones de la III Conferencia Ministerial sobre Política Exterior Feminista, que tuvo lugar en la Ciudad de México del 1 al 3 de julio de 2024. La III Conferencia generó un espacio de diálogo entre actores comprometidos con la ejecución de políticas exteriores con perspectiva de género y feminista para compartir buenas prácticas, lecciones aprendidas y desafíos comunes de implementación, y desde allí identificar soluciones innovadoras rumbo a las negociaciones del Pacto del Futuro que se acordará en el marco de la Cumbre del Futuro en septiembre 2024.
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This document aims to capture the lessons learned and best practices in Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) in women's economic empowerment programs, based on the experience of the Second Chance Education and Vocational Training Program, implemented by UN Women in Chile.
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The advance of anti-rights groups and the impact of the crisis on national accounts may negatively affect the Machineries for the Advancement of Women (MAMs) in two areas: On the one hand, it may affect the institutionality of the entity, promoting a more "family" centered approach, undermining its capacity to influence the State to promote laws, public policies, and budgets focused on achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment. On the other hand, it may further reduce the budget to which the MAMs have access, making it even more challenging to finance specific programs aimed at closing gaps.
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Digital inclusion is a goal that must be attained urgently due to the importance acquired by the 4.0 industry. The labour market and education have undergone changes due to the incorporation of technology, especially the evolution experienced during the pandemic with the digitization of several processes that facilitate doing paperwork, work, and education, among others. Promoting the participation of women in the digital world allows them to progress in their autonomy and reduce the gender gap.
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In line with international, regional, and national commitments regarding gender equality and women's empowerment, it provides a comprehensive analysis of the status of women in the region, supported by statistical and qualitative data. Its main objective is to examine gender inequalities in the region, taking into account the five dimensions of the 2030 Agenda: people, prosperity, planet, collective participation, and peace, also known as the "5 Ps".
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Latin America and the Caribbean is in the midst of cascading crises that are deepening historical and structural inequalities and which disproportionately affect women. It is therefore urgent for the countries of the region to speed up progress towards achieving gender equality and the full exercise of the rights of women, adolescent girls and girls in all their diversity.
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Este documento presenta un estado del arte de los diferentes MAM en América Latina y el Caribe, desde su creación hasta nuestros días, haciendo también un recorrido por el marco normativo que desde la Convención sobre la Eliminación de Todas las Formas de Discriminación contra la Mujer (CEDAW por sus siglas en inglés) y sus Recomendaciones Generales, la Declaración y Plataforma de Acción de Beijing hasta los diferentes acuerdos que conforman la Agenda Regional de Género acordada en la Conferencia Regional sobre la Mujer de América Latina y el Caribe, ponen de relieve la importancia de contar con estos mecanismos como condición necesaria para el avance de la igualdad de género.
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UN Women Chile, through the programme Tu Oportunidad - Second Chance Education, has sought to develop a program for the economic empowerment and social and cultural integration of migrant and refugee women from Afghanistan. This multisectoral initiative was made possible through the inter-agency collaboration of UNHCR and ECLAC and the support of the Afghan-Chilean Cultural Institute Foundation and the Ascend Athletics Foundation as members of civil society.
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This preliminary report summarizes the most extensive qualitative study conducted to date in Latin America and the Caribbean. It investigates 15 cases through in-depth and semi-structured interviews with women with public voices1 based in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Venezuela. All of them have faced severe online attacks due to their gender, stemming from their journalistic activities and activism. The selection of interviewees was carried out by the organizations that make up the Regional Alliance.