XVI RCW Concludes with a Commitment to Advance Care Societies: prioritising equality, care of people and the planet
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The Member States of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), participating in the XVI Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, approved this Friday, August 15, 2025 the Tlatelolco Commitment, which establishes a decade of action (2025-2035) in Latin America and the Caribbean to accelerate the achievement of substantive gender equality and the care society through political, economic, social, cultural and environmental transformations.
In the agreement, the countries recognize that the care society proposal that Latin America and the Caribbean is contributing to the world is a new paradigm for sustainable development, equality and peace that prioritizes the sustainability of life and the care of people and the planet. And they commit themselves to promoting measures to overcome the sexual division of labor and move towards a fair social organization of care.
In addition, they recognize in the resolution “the human right to care, which comprises the right to provide and receive care and to exercise self-care, based on the principles of equality, universality and social and gender co-responsibility, and which therefore constitutes an obligation of the State and a responsibility that must be shared by persons of all sectors of society, men and women, families, communities and the private sector.”
The main intergovernmental forum within the United Nations focused on women's rights and gender equality in the region was inaugurated on Tuesday by the President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, and brought together delegates from 31 Member States and associate members of ECLAC, along with representatives of 23 United Nations agencies and 25 intergovernmental organizations. They were joined by women parliamentarians from 14 of the region’s countries and around 600 members of civil society, mainly representatives of women’s and feminist organizations and movements. Nearly 1,200 people participated in total.
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