JOINT MEETING OF THE PERMANENT COUNCIL AND THE INTER-AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR INTEGRAL DEVELOPMENT,

TO COMMEMORATE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY

1. Adoption of the order of business (CP/OD-2538/25)

2. Welcome remarks by Ambassador Lou-Anne Gilchrist, Permanent Representative of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Chair of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI) (prerecorded video presentation)

3. Commemoration of International Women’s Day: “Autonomous women, young women, and girls: Empowerment, rights, and liberties for all, without discrimination”

• “Challenges to full access to development for women, young women, and girls in the Americas, in their diverse and concomitant situations of vulnerability”
• Presentation by Commissioner Roberta Clarke, Rapporteur on the Rights of Women of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

Economic autonomy of women: Progress and persistent challenges

• Presentation by Ms. Alejandra Mora Mora, Executive Secretary of the Inter-American Commission of Women (prerecorded video presentation)
• “Recommendation No. 40 of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)”
• Presentation by Ms. Leticia Bonifaz, CEDAW Committee expert and National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) professor (bio)

Women in STEM

• Presentation by Dr. Melania Guerra, Head of the Climate Science and Impacts team at Climate Analytics’ Berlin office (bio)

4. Comments by member states

The meeting will be broadcast live - with interpretation in Spanish, English, French and Portuguese- on the OAS Website and the OAS Facebook page