UN Women at #CLACSO2022, the 9th Latin American and Caribbean Conference of Social Sciences, the largest academic and political event in the Social Sciences and Humanities worldwide

The 9th Latin American and Caribbean Conference of Social Sciences – Frames of Inequalities in Latin America and the Caribbean: Knowledge, Struggles and Transformations, CLACSO's most important meeting in the last three years. This Conference, which will take place at the facilities of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), is a crucial platform for updating the direction of academic research. The program for the four-day Conference offers dozens of forums, round tables, panels, and special activities on various disciplines related to the social sciences.  

Since its first edition in 2003, the Latin American and Caribbean Conference of Social Sciences has been the most prominent academic and political event in the Social Sciences and Humanities in the world. In its eight previous editions, different topics have been addressed according to the political and social situations of the region. In 2022, the main focus of the Conference will be on inequalities.   

UN Women will play an essential role in the activities and panels, as the theme is central to the organization's mission for gender equality and women's empowerment. 

The Regional Director, María Noel Vaeza, and the Deputy Regional Director, Cecilia Alemany, will be part of the inaugural panel, The Care Society and Life Policies, on Wednesday 8 and participate in the panel Contemporary Debates on Care. The two will also participate in the panel Feminism and Environment: An Emerging Field in Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Studies. Alemany will be part of the Dynamics and New Forms of Cooperation from the Global South axis and the panel The Current Challenges of International Cooperation towards Latin America on Tuesday the 7th. This collaboration is part of a Partnership Agreement that UN Women and CLACSO initiated in 2020 to strengthen areas of study and research focused on different aspects of gender equality and women's empowerment, such as the environment or care, as well as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the achievement of the objectives of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, among others.   

Belén Sanz Luque, UN Women's Representative in Mexico, will participate on Thursday the 9th in the panel of the Gender Violence axis called Declaration of Alert on Violence against Women in Mexico City: institutional challenges in the construction of public policies focused on violence against women.  

The edition of #CLACSO2022 promotes the debate on current challenges and possible ways of advancing towards increased democracy, greater equality, improved social justice, and more gender equality and empowerment for women. Within this framework, there will be a series of dedicated panels with international guests, conferences and keynote dialogues with prominent figures from the political, academic, and social fields, as well as training workshops, panels and roundtables, a book fair on social sciences and humanities, and a film festival, among other special events. The program is available here.   

In her invitation, the Executive Secretary of CLACSO, Karina Batthyány, describes these instances: "(...) the debate is and will undoubtedly be enlightening, organized based on 34 thematic axes called to be analyzed in-depth in the forums and colloquiums, (...) Axes that cover the challenges of democracy, the environment, migrations, feminisms, education, negritude, indigenous peoples, human rights, disabilities, South-South Cooperation and many others mark the regional agenda".  

More information at https://conferenciaclacso.org/