Objectives:

1. To call for action to invest and act to improve public policies aimed at ending child labour, through the inclusion of a gender approach.

2. To demonstrate how gender roles create differentiated conditions for girls and boys in child labour, and how these translate into unequal opportunities between men and women throughout their lives.

3. To generate a space for the exchange of experiences and perspectives between UN agencies, government representatives, employers’ organisations and workers’ organisations on the inclusion of a gender approach to the prevention and eradication of child labour.

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Programme: 

10 minutes: Welcome

• Vinícius Pinheiro, Regional Director of the ILO Office for Latin America and the Caribbean (5 min)
• Alberto Arenas de Mesa, Director of ECLAC's Social Development Division (5 min)

20 minutes: Making the invisible visible: what does the data tell us?
• Andrés Espejo, Consultant in the Social Development Division, ECLAC (10 min)
• Rocío Valencia, National Coordinator, ILO (10 min)

30 minutes: Child labour from a gender perspective in public policies: how to put it into practice?
• Anahí Aizpuru, Coordinator of the Child and Adolescent Labour Observatory (OTIA), Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security of Argentina (10 min)
• Leonor Sepúlveda Carvajal, National Administrator of the Integrated Information System for the Registration and Eradication of Child Labour and its Worst Forms
(SIRITI), Ministry of Labour of Colombia (10 min)
• Ericka Álvarez Ramírez, National Director for Social Security, Ministry of Labour and Social Security of Costa Rica (10 min)

20 minutes: The role of employers' and workers' organizations in partnerships to prevent and eliminate child labour under a gender approach
• Laura Giménez, Head of Legislation and Social Policy Departments, Argentine Industrial Union, and Employers' Focal Point of the Regional Initiative Latin America and the Caribbean Free of Child Labour (10 min)
• Paola Egusquiza, Secretary of Defence, Autonomous Central of Peruvian Workers, and Workers' Focal Point of the Regional Initiative Latin America and the Caribbean Free of Child Labour (10 min) 

10 minutes: Dialogue open to questions via chat
• Moderator: Technical Secretariat of the Regional Initiative Latin America and the Caribbean Free of Child Labour