Side event: The Buenos Aires Commitment and its contribution to multilateralism

Within the framework of the 67th period of sessions of the Commission on the Legal and Social Condition of Women (CSW 67), the Government of the Republic of Argentina, in its capacity as Chairman of the Board of Directors elected at the XV Regional Conference on the Women of Latin America and the Caribbean (November 2022), in conjunction with the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), as Secretariat of the Conference, and in coordination with the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women), organize the side event “The Buenos Aires Commitment and its contribution to multilateralism”. The objective of this side event is to present this intergovernmental agreement as a contribution from Latin America and the Caribbean to the CSW67 deliberations at the United Nations.

The Buenos Aires Commitment approved at the XV Regional Conference in November 2022, calls for moving towards a new style of development that prioritizes the sustainability of life and the planet, recognizes the right to care as part of fundamental human rights for the well-being of the population as a whole, and guarantees the rights of people in need of care, as well as the rights of people who provide such care. The Buenos Aires Commitment proposes fundamental agreements to address the structural causes of gender inequality, achieve a transformative recovery with gender equality aimed at the sustainability of life and move towards the care society.