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High-level Authorities from the Region Will Analyze Fulfillment of Gender Equality Commitments in the Context of the Pandemic | News

Vice Presidents, Foreign Ministers, Ministers of Women’s Affairs and authorities from mechanisms for women’s advancement – among other representatives from the region’s countries – will participate on February 23-25, 2021 in the 60th Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, which will take place virtually. The meeting is being organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), which holds the Conference’s Secretariat, in coordination with the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women). This event will be inaugurated on Tuesday, February 23 at 11:00 a.m. local time in Chile (GMT-3) by Alicia Bárcena, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary; María-Noel Vaeza, UN Women’s Regional Director for the Americas and the Caribbean; and Mónica Zalaquett, Minister of Women and Gender Equity of Chile, in her capacity as Chair of the Presiding Officers of t

Women in Latin America protest the increasing violence towards women

Women in Latin America protest the increasing violence towards women Duration: 03:46 In Latin America, the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the deep patriarchal schemes that seriously affect women in the region. Gender violence and femicides increased with confinement, which also left 23 million women in poverty, which led 6% of them to leave their jobs, and increased unpaid care workloads to 40%, according to the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). During her long presentation, Bárcena insisted on combating gender violence and the increase in femicides that fueled the health crisis, and that she called the shadow pandemic because it occurs in homes and is affecting women and girls. In Argentina, the femicide of young Úrsula Bahillo, who had denounced her ex-partner several times and was murdered on February 8 with 15 stab wounds, once again exposed the failures in the policies to prevent violence against women that, despite the progress in recent ye

High-level Authorities from the Region Will Analyze Fulfillment of Gender Equality Commitments in the Context of the Pandemic

High-level Authorities from the Region Will Analyze Fulfillment of Gender Equality Commitments in the Context of the Pandemic
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