Draft first regional report on the implementation of the Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development

<strong>Draft</strong> <strong>first</strong> <strong>regional</strong> <strong>report</strong> on the implementation of the Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development
Contents
I. Afrodescendants: rights and combating racial discrimination...................................................................... 187
1. Introduction............................................................................................................................................. 187
2. Legal and regulatory frameworks: national advances in the light of international standards.............. 187
3. National institutions and the implementation of policies and programmes......................................... 189
4. Living conditions and overlapping inequalities...................................................................................... 194
5. Progress with Afrodescendent persons’ and communities’ right to information.................................. 197
6. Conclusions............................................................................................................................................. 199
Bibliography.......................................................................................................................................................... 200
Tables
Table III.A1.1
Table III.1
Table III.2
Table III.3
Latin America and the Caribbean: population and development institutions
and civil society participation.......................................................................................................... 56
Latin America and the Caribbean (18 countries): specific fertility rates by age group
(Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development follow-up indicator B.10),
before (around 2010), at the time of and after the Montevideo Consensus
on Population and Development...................................................................................................... 68
Latin America and the Caribbean (five countries): women aged 20 to 24 who had their <strong>first</strong> child,
<strong>first</strong> union or <strong>first</strong> sexual intercourse before the age of 20 (Montevideo Consensus on
Population and Development follow-up indicators B.11, B.12 and B.13), ad hoc indicator
of protected sexual initiation and proportion of women aged 15 to 19 in unions whose
demand for family planning is met with modern methods (before and after
the Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development)....................................................... 69
Latin America and the Caribbean (12 countries): women aged 15 to 19 who have become
mothers or are pregnant for the <strong>first</strong> time (adolescent fertility in the case of El Salvador),
by socioeconomic quintile (level of education in the case of Cuba), two points in time
if available, otherwise most recent time following the Montevideo Consensus
on Population and Development...................................................................................................... 72
Table III.4 Latin America and the Caribbean: level of development of palliative care programmes, 2014......... 86
Table III.5 Proportion of women aged 15 to 49 taking their own informed decisions about sexual relations,
contraceptive use and reproductive health care according to the latest survey.......................... 105
Table III.6 Latin America and the Caribbean: mechanisms for the advancement of women,
by hierarchical level, latest period available................................................................................. 114
Table III.7 Latin America and the Caribbean: territorial development policies and strategies..................... 146
Table III.8 Latin America (17 countries): inclusion of indigenous (self-)identification in censuses,
household surveys and vital statistics........................................................................................... 181
Table III.9 Latin America (17 countries): inclusion of Afrodescendent (self-)identification in censuses,
household surveys and vital statistics........................................................................................... 198
Figures
Figure III.1
Latin America and the Caribbean: proportions of the employed population living below
the international poverty threshold, by sex and subregion, 2013-2016.......................................... 43
Figure III.2 Latin America (selected countries): population below the national poverty line........................... 44
Figure III.3 Latin America and the Caribbean: Gini index of household income inequality.............................. 47
Figure III.4 Latin America and the Caribbean: unemployment rate among the population
aged 15 and over, by sex and subregion, 2013-2016...................................................................... 50
Figure III.5 Latin America (18 countries): poverty and extreme poverty rates by age group,
2002, 2012 and 2016....................................................................................................................... 61
Figure III.6 Latin America (18 countries): primary and secondary school completion rates,
2013 and 2016................................................................................................................................. 62
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