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Tue, Jul 02 2024

Wed, Jul 03 2024

Thu, Jul 04 2024

  • Panel 1: Achievements and challenges relating to the Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development 30 years after the adoption of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development
    10:00 am to 11:00 am

    Moderator: Noemí Espinoza, Ambassador-at-large of Honduras for Women’s Affairs and Chair of fifty-seventh session of the Commission on Population and Development of the United Nations

    • Epsy Campbell, Member of the Permanent Forum of People of African Descent
    • Samantha Marshall, Minister of State within the Ministry of Health, Wellness, Social Transformation and the Environment of Antigua and Barbuda
    • Laís Abramo, National Secretary for Care and Family in the Ministry of Social Development and Assistance, Family Affairs and the Fight against Hunger of Brazil
    • Cindy Quesada, Minister for the Status of Women of Costa Rica
    • Juan Carlos Alfonso, Deputy Head of the National Office of Statistics and Information (ONEI) of Cuba
    • Gilma Vieira, Coordinator, Red de Juventudes Afrodescendientes de América Latina y el Caribe

  • Statements by delegations
    11:00 am to 01:00 pm
  • Panel 2: Persons with disabilities and the population and development agenda
    02:30 pm to 03:30 pm

    Moderator: María Soledad Cisternas (Chile), Professor of Law and Researcher. Former Chair of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2013 – 2016), and Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General on Disability and Accessibility (2017 – 2023)

    • Anderson Henao, Director for Ensuring the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Ministry of Equality and Equity of Colombia
    • Olga Montúfar, President of the Network of Indigenous and Afro-descendant Women with Disabilities of Latin America and the Caribbean
    • Kenrick Theus, President of the Belize Assembly for Persons with Diverse Abilities (BAPDA)
    • Marcela Ramírez, Coordinator of the Continuing Education and Special Services Programme and Deputy Director of the School of Social Work at the University of Costa Rica
    • Jorge Luis Díaz, Specialist in the Social Cohesion Area of the Ibero-American General Secretariat (SEGIB)

  • Consideration and adoption of agreements
    04:00 pm to 04:15 pm
  • Closing session
    04:15 pm to 04:45 pm

    • Javier Medina Vásquez, Deputy Executive Secretary of of ECLAC
    • Susana Sottoli, Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean of UNFPA
    • Constanza Bejarano, Director for Economic, Social and Environmental Affairs of Colombia, the country serving as Chair of the Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

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Centro de Convenciones Cartagena de Indias
Getsemaní, Calle 24 Nº 8a-344,
Cartagena de indias - Región BOL
Colombia