2 May 2013: The 7th Conference on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change (CBA7) was organized around the theme 'mainstreaming CBA into national and local planning.'
As part of the Post-2015 Development Agenda Global Thematic Consultations, this High-Level Leadership Meeting will review the final report and findings of the Global Consultation on Inequalities with the aim of developing a statement and recommendations. The first day of the Meeting will be a Public Dialogue and will address: why inequalities matter and the impacts of inequalities on both societies and individuals; the different dimensions of inequality, synergies between them and the common factors that drive and sustain them; and effective ways forward to address inequalities, and the factors that drive them, as part of a new development agenda, as well as how to assess and measure progress on reducing inequalities. The event will be live-streamed via the consultation's website on 18 February 2013, from 9 am-3 pm Central European Time (CEE). The event will be interactive, and online participants are invited to submit questions to the panel in advance using the Twitter hashtag #inequalities2015. Questions may also be submitted by email to inequalities@worldwewant2015.org, before the deadline of Friday, 15 February 2013. Organizers highly encourage participants to submit questions early. The programme of the event is available at: http://www.worldwewant2015.org/node/293653 . The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) and UN Women co-lead the global thematic consultation on inequalities, with support from the Governments of Denmark and Ghana. Inequalities is one of 11 themes being addressed on a global level by the UN Development Group's (UNDG) consultations on the post-2015 development agenda.
28 June 2012: The Central American Integration System's (SICA) Council of Women's Affairs Ministers (COMMCA) and the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (BCIE) convened the first Regional Conference on the Economic Rights of Women, with a focus on entrepreneurship, public policies and access to capital in the SICA member countries of Belize, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama.
17 June 2012: The Latin American Development Bank (CAF) and the UN entity for gender equality and the empowerment of women, UN Women, have signed a cooperation agreement to combat poverty in Latin America through initiatives that reduce levels of inequality between men and women.
15 June 2012: The UN entity for gender equality and the empowerment of women, UN Women, and the Secretariat of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) have signed a framework cooperation agreement on promoting gender equality, gender mainstreaming and women's empowerment in the 12 UNASUR States.
8 May 2012: The Central American Integration System's (SICA) Council of Women's Affairs Ministers (COMMCA) and the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) have agreed to work together in promoting the economic rights of women in Central America and the Dominican Republic.
8 March 2012: The UN system celebrated International Women's Day on 8 March 2012, under the theme "Empower Rural Women – End Hunger and Poverty."
8 March 2012: As part of the Caribbean Community's (CARICOM) celebration of International Women's Day, CARICOM Secretary-General Irwin LaRocque announced the release of public campaign products on ending violence against women.
15 February 2012: Acting on a December 2011 mandate from the Central American Integration System (SICA) Heads of State and Government, SICA's Council of Women's Affairs Ministers (COMMCA) has begun drafting a Regional Policy on Gender Equality and Equity.
The 56th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW 56) will take place at UN Headquarters, in New York, US, from 27 February-9 March 2012. The priority theme will be the empowerment of rural women and their role in poverty and hunger eradication, development and current challenges.
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