The Fifth Meeting of the Regional Conference on Population and Development from Latin America and the Caribbean It will be held from July 3 to 4 at the Cartagena de Indias Convention Center, Colombia. The intergovernmental meeting will be preceded on July 2 by parallel events and civil society activities.
The meeting will be opened by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Colombia, Luis Gilberto Murillo; the Deputy Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Javier Medina Vásquez; the Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Susana Sottoli; the Minister of Development Planning of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Sergio Cusicanqui; and the Ambassador of Honduras on Special Mission for Women’s Affairs and President of the 57th session of the United Nations Commission on Population and Development, Noemí Espinoza.
During the meeting, senior representatives of government, regional and international institutions, private sector, academia and civil society will address the achievements of the Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development and the challenges for its 30-year implementation of the Program of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development. Population and Development (ICPD).
In the context of the meeting, ECLAC will present the document entitled Population, development and rights in Latin America and the Caribbeanwhich is the second regional report on the implementation of the Montevideo Consensus and analyses progress in the implementation of the agreement’s priority measures eleven years after its adoption.
Website
On the meeting website, https://crpd.cepal.org/5/esyou can find general information about the event, the program, reference documents and press releases and news, as well as links to ECLAC’s social media. Details of the various participating actors are also provided, among other information resources.
Live broadcast
All panels will be broadcast live on the following platforms:
Any media or organization is free to replicate the transmission on its own internet portals.
Mobile app
Another way to access event information is by downloading the mobile app ECLAC Conferencesavailable in Apple Store and Google Play: https://www.cepal.org/es/publicaciones/apps.
X (formerly Twitter)
We will be tweeting in English and Spanish from the two institutional accounts, @cepal_onu and @eclac_un, with the tags #LACpopulation and #populationLAC. We will also use #CEPAL and #ECLAC.
Through our Facebook pages (https://www.facebook.com/cepal.onu/ and https://www.facebook.com/eclac), we will share various contents about the meeting.
Youtube
We will be uploading various videos to our YouTube channels related to the meeting, which we will update throughout the course of the event. Subscribe to our channels: https://www.youtube.com/user/CEPALONU and https://www.youtube.com/user/ECLACUN.
Flickr
High resolution photographs of the event will be published on the institutional accounts on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/cepal/ and https://www.flickr.com/photos/eclac. The corresponding credits will be published on each image and the media will be able to use them freely, citing the credit.
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