Summary of the Report

In tune with the Ecclesial Assembly of Latin America and the Caribbean, the World Union of Catholic Women’s Organisations (WUCWO), with its World Women’s Observatory, in alliance with the Observatorio Socio-Antropológico Pastoral del Departamento de Gestión del Conocimiento del CELAM (Pastoral Socio-Anthropological Observatory of the CELAM - Latin American and Caribbean Episcopal Council - Department of Knowledge Management), prepared this study on the impact of the pandemic produced by Covid-19 on the lives of women in Latin America and in the Caribbean, their families, communities and peoples.

The objective of the WWO is to give visibility to women, especially the most vulnerable, who seem “invisible”, both in terms of their suffering and their potential, in order to inspire and generate pastoral strategies on the part of the Church, synergies on the part of civil society NGOs, public policies on the part of States and contributions to the international agenda, which favour the integral human development of women and that of their families, communities and peoples.