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10 June 2021 | Press Release

ECLAC Reaffirms its Commitment to Working with Central American Countries, Mexico, UN Agencies and the Cooperating Community to Implement the Comprehensive Development Plan
The regional commission’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, participated today in a solidarity event for forcibly displaced persons and the communities that host them, organized by the governments of Spain, Guatemala and Costa Rica, with the support of UNHCR and the OAS.
26 April 2021 | Press Release

Countries Reiterate Commitment to Implementing the Global Compact and Urge for Viewing Migration as a Contribution to Democracy, Diversity and Sustainable Development
The Regional review meeting on the implementation of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration was inaugurated today.
12 de September de 2019 | Press Release

Secretaria Ejecutiva de la CEPAL presentó al Gobierno de Guatemala el Plan de Desarrollo Integral de Centroamérica y México
En el marco de una visita oficial, Alicia Bárcena se reunió con el Presidente del país, Jimmy Morales, y el Presidente electo para 2020-2024, Alejandro Giammattei, entre otras autoridades.
27 February 2019 | Press Release

ECLAC: Social, Economic and Cultural Impact of Migration is Distinctly Positive for Countries of Origin and Destination

Alicia Bárcena, the regional organization’s Executive Secretary, spoke today during a high-level debate on international migration and development held at the United Nations headquarters in New York. Prior to that, she participated in a meeting of ECLAC’s Committee of the Whole.
11 December 2018 | Press Release

The Global Compact is a Historic Opportunity to Recognize the Triad of Rights, Development and Migration: ECLAC
Alicia Bárcena, the organization’s Executive Secretary, participated today in the plenary debate of the Intergovernmental Conference on the Global Compact for Migration in her capacity as representative of the United Nations regional commissions.
10 December 2018 | Press Release

Foreign Ministers of El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico Presented Comprehensive Development Plan in the Framework of the Conference on the Global Compact for Migration
The regional initiative will change the paradigm of migration, development and cooperation between northern Central America and Mexico, under ECLAC’s auspices.
9 December 2018 | Press Release

Global Compact for Migration Provides a Framework of Non-Binding Shared Principles to Confront an Inherently Cross-Border Issue: Alicia Bárcena
At the start of her participation in the Intergovernmental Conference for Migration that is being held in Marrakech, Morocco, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary addressed the global agreement’s relevance from a regional perspective.
22 September 2017 | Press Release

ECLAC Calls for Reaffirming the Positive Contribution of Migrants with Evidence and Data
ECLAC’s Executive Secretary participated in a meeting of the United Nations regional commissions on the prospects of the Global Compact for safe, orderly and regular migration.
30 August 2017 | Press Release

ECLAC and IOM Host Preparatory Meeting on the Global Compact for Secure, Orderly and Regular Migration
The meeting’s opening session was headed by Alicia Bárcena, ECLAC’s Executive Secretary; Louise Arbour, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for International Migration; Ambassador Juan José Gómez Camacho, Co-facilitator of the intergovernmental consultations and negotiations on the global compact on migration; and Laura Thompson, Deputy Director General of the IOM.
11 May 2017 | Press Release

Labour Conditions Seen Continuing to Weaken in 2017 and Urban Unemployment Could Exceed 9% in the Region
New ECLAC-ILO report indicates that the increase in average regional unemployment in 2016 was the biggest annual rise in two decades. It also includes an analysis regarding the characteristics of immigrants’ insertion in the world of work.
9 October 2015 | Press Release

Countries in the Region Agree Operational Guide to Implement Measures on Population and Development
The Regional Conference on Population and Development, which concluded today its second session, will hold its next meeting in El Salvador in 2017.
7 October 2015 | Press Release

ECLAC: By 2060 the Region Will Have 25% More Inhabitants, With More Older Adults than Persons Under 20
The Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Demographic Center (CELADE)-Population Division of ECLAC presented these projections during the second meeting of the Regional Conference on Population and Development.
6 October 2015 | Press Release

“Population Policy is Essential for Full, Sustainable Development”
The President of Mexico and the Executive Secretary of ECLAC opened the second meeting of the Regional Conference on Population and Development in Mexico City.
24 June 2015 | Press Release

Countries of the Region Analyze Guide to Implementing Measures on Population and Development
From June 24 - 26, the Second Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Population and Development will be held at ECLAC’s headquarters.
5 October 2013 | Press Release

ECLAC Describes Regional Migration Challenges
The Commission's Deputy Executive Secretary represented the five United Nations regional commissions at the Second High-Level Dialogue on International Migration and Development.
12 August 2013 | Press Release

Latin American and Caribbean Countries Will Discuss New Population and Development Agenda beyond 2014
This is a people's agenda to raise the profile of excluded sectors: children, older adults, women, indigenous people, Afro-descendent people and migrants.
9 August 2013 | Press Release

Montevideo Will Host the First Session of the Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
The President of Uruguay will attend the opening of the meeting, which is being organized by ECLAC.
2 August 2013 | Press Release

ECLAC Organizes First session of the Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
Meeting participants will discuss issues such as population growth, migration, teenage pregnancy, poverty, inequality and human rights.
15 July 2013 | Press Release

Government Representatives and Officials Discussed the Post-2015 Agenda in the Caribbean
Regional integration was highlighted as a key to regional development.
6 July 2012 | Press Release

ECLAC Member States Meet in Ecuador for Ad Hoc Committee on Population and Development
At the meeting, priority issues for Latin America and the Caribbean related to population, territory and sustainable development will be discussed.

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