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The present document is a tool for measuring the incidence of violence against women in intimate relationships, as well as the main characteristics of the phenomenon. The first part describes how the...

Recent pension reforms in Latin America have not contributed to solving the problem of social security for women but have in fact, made individuals more vulnerable in terms of social safety nets. This...

This study analyzes to what extent part-time work constitutes precarious employment and examines whether the precariousness of employment affected men as much as women. Part-time Work in Chile...

This report is intended to facilitate the exchange and dissemination of information on gender and economics. It contributes to the research and analysis of recent trends in globalization and economic...

This study was presented as background material at a meeting of experts on globalization, technological change and gender equity held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in November 2001. It shows how restrictions...

This report takes a look at globalization from a political-institutional standpoint and emphasizes the role played by a whole range of agents involved in the different global dynamics that drive...

This report argues that power in fact rests in the hands of the people, as can be seen in countless local, national and international movements to redistribute power and bring greater attention to...

This report shows how community-led interventions are central to achieving the end of AIDS and to sustaining the gains into the future. People living with or affected by HIV have driven progress in...

Every year on the occasion of World AIDS Day, 1 December, the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) releases a report on pressing issues facing the global response to the AIDS pandemic. As the AIDS...

Poverty affects men and women in a different way. What is Poverty, how to measure it and how to tackle it, are the three questions to which this document responds, on the basis of the theoretical...

This publication reviews progress and challenges in two areas of analysis: Gender Equity - the basis for a fair an equitable society, and Human Rights and Peace for Latin America and the Caribbean...

Women’s migration differs from that of men in terms of its features and implications. For instance, women find themselves confined to precarious jobs characterized by a high degree of exploitation...

As this report shows, the global HIV response was off track even before the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, but the collision of COVID-19 and HIV has sent it back further. The Fast-Track Targets...

New infections are rising in many parts of the world but resources for the response have stagnated at levels that are wholly inadequate to end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030. This report...

Across the centuries, the international division of labor has included a variety of translocal circuits for the mobility of labor and capital, many of which still exist today. This paper examines the...

This report sets benchmarks and provides forward-looking analysis of the 2015 targets set by the United Nations General Assembly in its 2011 Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS. This publication asks,...

This publication outlines major methodological and conceptual challenges to understanding poverty from a gender perspective. While Latin America is the main focus of analysis throughout the paper...

The purpose of this document is to present an overview of the social and institutional changes unfolding in the region and the relationships that exist between democratic governance and the reform of...

This study is intended to provide an analysis of pension reform in Latin America that expressly seeks to avoid the omissions, conceptual traps and logical inconsistencies from which the conventional...

This publication was written by the philosopher Amelia Valcarcel and presented at the panel on Equity and Human Rights. The collective memory and the challenges of feminism are reflected in the author...