The member states of the European Union and Latin America and the Caribbean share common challenges to develop universal care policies and systems that include the provision of quality, affordable and accessible care services from early childhood and in the long term, as well as ensuring decent working conditions and quality employment of caregivers.
Against this backdrop and taking advantage of the presence of authorities and representatives of EU member states and Latin American and Caribbean countries in New York on the occasion of the sixty-eighth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW68), the EU-LAC Foundation, UN Women and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), in association with the Spanish Ministry for Equality, the Global Alliance for Care, the National Institute for Women of Mexico (INMUJERES), and United National Development Programme (UNDP) are convening a high-level meeting aimed at joining efforts to promote this Bi-regional Pact for Care between Latin America and the Caribbean and the European Union.
