General assembly thirty-seventh regular session panama, republic of panama
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That the Inter-American Program on Education for Democratic Values and Practices was adopted at the Fourth Meeting of Ministers of Education within the Framework of CIDI, held in Scarborough, Trinidad and Tobago, from August 10 to 12, 2005; and That in the Declaration of Mar del Plata of the Fourth Summit of the Americas, the Heads of State and Government supported “the recommendations contained in the Declaration and Plan of Action of the Fourth Meeting of Ministers of Education,” and they state that they will strive “for quality public education at all levels and promote literacy to ensure a democratic citizenry, foster decent work, fight poverty, and achieve greater social inclusion,” RESOLVES: To underscore the importance of the Inter-American Program on Education for Democratic Values and Practices, which will help generate and provide information to strengthen democratic culture through formal and nonformal education, and to develop and strengthen teaching methods in education for democratic values and practices, human rights and peace, and the promotion of horizontal cooperation and the exchange of experiences among the different entities active in this area internationally, regionally, nationally, and locally. To acknowledge the progress made in implementing the Program, including past activities such as the First Meeting of the Advisory Group, in Bogotá, Colombia, in April 2006; the launching, in June 2006, of the Program’s Web page; and the holding of the Inter-American Seminar on Good Practices in Education for Citizens, in Mexico City, Mexico, in July 2006, and of the Inter-American Summit on Conflict Resolution Education, in Cleveland, Ohio, in March 2007. Likewise, to recognize and encourage the continuation of ongoing and planned activities, such as the pilot project “Distance Education Hemispheric Course for Teachers: The Inter-American Democratic Charter as Instrument for Teaching Democratic Values and Principles,” initiated in Peru in 2006; and the beginning of its adaptation for development over the next three years of an Internet civic education course in the English-speaking Caribbean; maintenance of the Program’s Web page; and the design and development of the Inter-American Journal of Education for Democracy, an online publication to be launched in September 2007. To request the General Secretariat to continue, through the Executive Secretariat for Integral Development (SEDI) and the Secretariat for Political Affairs, to support the Permanent Council, the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI), and the member states in the ongoing design and implementation of the Inter-American Program on Education for Democratic Values and Practices, and to report thereon on a regular basis to CIDI and the Permanent Council. To instruct the Inter-American Committee on Education (CIE) to follow up on implementation of the Inter-American Program on Education for Democratic Values and Practices; and to instruct CIDI and the Permanent Council to report to the General Assembly at its thirty-eighth regular session on the implementation of this resolution. To reaffirm support for the efforts of OAS member states in the area of literacy training, taking into account the close link between these efforts and the Program’s objectives. To thank those member states that have contributed financial, logistical, and human resources for the Program’s activities. To invite member states and permanent observers, as well as individuals and national or international organizations, whether public or private, that wish to do so to make voluntary contributions to support the development and implementation of the Program. To request the Permanent Council to report to the General Assembly, at its thirty-eighth regular session, on the implementation of this resolution, which will be carried out within the resources allocated in the program-budget of the Organization and other resources. AG/RES. 2321 (XXXVII-O/07) PROPOSAL TO INCORPORATE HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION INTO FORMAL EDUCATION FOR SCHOOLCHILDREN AGED 10 TO 14, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROTOCOL OF SAN SALVADOR (Adopted at the fourth plenary session, held on June 5, 2007) THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, RECALLING its resolution AG/RES. 2066 (XXXV-O/05), in which the General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) suggested including human rights content and basic activities in the academic curricula of educational institutions; CONSIDERING that in the Plan of Action of the First Summit of the Americas, held in Miami in 1994, the Heads of State and Government established that governments should “[d]evelop programs for the promotion and observance of human rights, including educational programs to inform people of their legal rights and their responsibility to respect the rights of others”; CONSIDERING ALSO that Article 13 of the Inter-American Democratic Charter establishes that “[t]he promotion and observance of economic, social, and cultural rights are inherently linked to integral development, equitable economic growth, and to the consolidation of democracy in the states of the Hemisphere”; BEARING IN MIND that Article 13.2 of the Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in the Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, “Protocol of San Salvador,” refers to essential factors to which education in each of the states parties should be directed, one of them being respect for human rights; APPRECIATING the efforts of the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights (IIHR) in producing, uninterruptedly since 2002, five Inter-American Reports on Human Rights Education, which record progress made by the states parties to the Protocol of San Salvador with respect to human rights education; RECALLING that Article 49 of the OAS Charter provides that “[t]he Member States will exert the greatest efforts, in accordance with their constitutional processes, to ensure the effective exercise of the right to education,” taking into account, inter alia, that “[e]lementary education, compulsory for children of school age, shall also be offered to all others who can benefit from it. When provided by the State it shall be without charge”; CONSIDERING that the right to human rights education from the very first years at school helps strengthen the democratic system, development, security, and progress of the free societies of the Americas; REAFFIRMING that the Inter-American Democratic Charter regards the promotion and protection of human rights as a prerequisite for the existence of a democratic society; and APPRECIATING the efforts of the Conference of Ministers of Education on Human Rights Education, recently convened by the Minister of Education of Panama and the IIHR, to strengthen the human rights material incorporated into the member states’ formal educational systems, RESOLVES: To acknowledge the progress, actions, and policies gradually being implemented by member states with respect to human rights education for children and young people in academic institutions, as documented by the Inter-American Reports on Human Rights Education. To suggest that member states implement, if, and to the extent that, they have not yet done so, the recommendations contained in the Inter-American Reports on Human Rights Education at different levels in their formal education systems. To suggest to member states that they analyze the contributions of the Curricular and Methodological Proposal of the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights (IIHR) to incorporate human rights education into the official curriculum for children aged 10 to 14, with a view to their adopting it and in accordance with Article 13.2 of the Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in the Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, “Protocol of San Salvador.” Accordingly, to recommend to member states that have not already done so that they adopt, sign, and ratify this instrument. To underscore the work and achievements of the Inter-American Meeting of Ministers of Education on Human Rights Education in the states parties to the Protocol of San Salvador, as it served to exchange experience and to discuss the curricular and methodological developments needed to introduce or strengthen human rights education in each state party’s educational system. AG/RES. 2322 (XXXVII-O/07) INTER-AMERICAN YEAR OF WOMEN (Adopted at the fourth plenary session, held on June 5, 2007) THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, RECALLING: Its previous resolutions on promoting women’s human rights and gender equity and equality, fighting violence against women, strengthening the Inter-American Commission of Women (CIM), and the appointment of women to senior management positions at the Organization of American States (OAS), especially resolutions AG/RES. 2192 (XXXVI-O/06), “Promotion of Women’s Human Rights and Gender Equity and Equality”; AG/RES. 2162 (XXXVII-O/06), “Mechanism to Follow Up on Implementation of the Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment, and Eradication of Violence Against Women, ‘Convention of Belém do Pará’”; AG/RES. 2161 (XXXVI-O/06), “Strengthening of the Inter-American Commission of Women”; and AG/RES. 2191 (XXXVI-O/06), “Appointment of Women to Senior Management Positions at the Organization of American States”; The outcome of the four world conferences on women (Mexico City, 1975; Copenhagen, 1980; Nairobi, 1985; and Beijing, 1995) and, especially, the commitments undertaken in the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the political declaration and the final report of the twenty-third special session of the United Nations General Assembly (June 2000), on the topic “Women 2000: Gender Equality, Development and Peace for the 21st Century,” and the review and appraisal of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome of the twenty-third special session of the United Nations General Assembly, conducted by the Commission on the Status of Women of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (forty-ninth session, March 2005); The gender-related matters included in the Declarations and Plans of Action of the four Summits of the Americas (Miami, 1994; Santiago, 1998; Quebec City, 2001; and Mar del Plata, Argentina, 2005), as well as the Summit of the Americas on Sustainable Development (Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, 1996) and the Special Summit of the Americas (Monterrey, Mexico, 2004); and The Inter-American Program on the Promotion of Women’s Human Rights and Gender Equity and Equality, adopted by way of resolution AG/RES. 1732 (XXX-O/00), “Adoption and Implementation of the Inter-American Program on the Promotion of Women’s Human Rights and Gender Equity and Equality”; RECOGNIZING: Progress thus far in the promotion of women’s human rights and gender equality; The persisting challenges and obstacles to full equality between men and women in all areas of society; and The pioneering spirit of the inter-American system, especially the CIM, in addressing matters relating to equal opportunity for men and women; CONSIDERING: That appreciation of gender issues is a globally accepted strategy for promoting the empowerment of women and achieving gender equality by transforming the structures of inequality; and The need to continue actively promoting integration of the gender perspective in the design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of policies and programs in the political, economic, and social areas; and TAKING INTO ACCOUNT: The opportunity provided, in 2010, by the 15th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing, and the 10th anniversary of the adoption of the Inter-American Program on the Promotion of Women’s Human Rights and Gender Equity and Equality, to promote broad mobilization in the Americas to evaluate successes and challenges in the defense of women’s human rights and gender equity and equality and to strengthen public sensitivity to gender issues; and The support expressed by the Executive Committee of the CIM (April 19–20, 2007) for the proposal that 2010 be proclaimed the Inter-American Year of Women, RESOLVES: To proclaim 2010 the Inter-American Year of Women. To request the Permanent Council to form a working group to prepare a program of activities for the Inter-American Year of Women that provides for participation by officials of governments, parliaments, international organizations, civil society, and the private sector, and identifies sources of funding for those activities. To request the Permanent Secretariat of the Inter-American Commission of Women (CIM) to support the activities of the working group. To create a specific fund to finance activities related to the Inter-American Year of Women, open to contributions by member states, permanent observers, international organizations, civil society, the private sector, and the international community in general. To request the Permanent Council and the General Secretariat to carry out the activities mentioned in this resolution in accordance with the resources allocated in the program-budget of the Organization and other resources. To request the Permanent Council to present a report on the implementation of this resolution to the General Assembly at its thirty-eighth regular session. AG/RES. 2323 (XXXVII-O/07) STRENGTHENING OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION OF WOMEN (Adopted at the fourth plenary session, held on June 5, 2007) THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, BEARING IN MIND resolution AG/RES. 2161 (XXXVI-O/06), “Strengthening of the Inter-American Commission of Women,” which urged the Secretary General to take measures to support the work of the Inter-American Commission of Women (CIM) and to promote gender equity and equality within the Organization of American States (OAS) and in the Hemisphere; REITERATING what is expressed in said resolution, namely, that in the past five years the CIM has received additional priority mandates from the OAS member states without the corresponding budgetary appropriations; CONSIDERING: That, even though its budget and staff were augmented to some extent in 2007, the CIM’s possibilities of fully complying with all its mandates are very limited; That resolution AG/RES. 1732 (XXX-O/00), which adopted the Inter-American Program on the Promotion of Women’s Human Rights and Gender Equity and Equality (IAP), requested the General Secretariat to strengthen the Permanent Secretariat of the CIM by providing it with the necessary human and financial resources, and to help it obtain funds from private sources; and That resolutions AG/RES. 1451 (XXVII-O/97), AG/RES. 1592 (XXVIII-O/98), AG/RES. 1625 (XXIX-O/99), AG/RES. 1777 (XXXI-O/01), AG/RES. 1941 (XXXIII-O/03), AG/RES. 2021 (XXXIV-O/04), and AG/RES. 2124 (XXXV-O/05) have repeatedly instructed the General Secretariat and the Permanent Council to make every possible effort to allocate technical, human, and financial resources to the CIM so it would be better equipped to perform its essential activities; and RECALLING: That the Permanent Secretariat of the CIM was designated as the Technical Secretariat to the Conference of States Parties to the Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment, and Eradication of Violence against Women, “Convention of Belém do Pará,” and to the Committee of Experts of the Mechanism to follow up on implementation of said Convention (MESECVI) [AG/RES. 2138 (XXXV-O/05)]; and That additionally, and in compliance with resolution AG/RES. 1741 (XXX-O/00), in 2008 the CIM will coordinate the Third Meeting of Ministers or of the Highest-Ranking Authorities Responsible for the Advancement of Women in the Member States (REMIM-III), RESOLVES: To reiterate its instruction to the Secretary General to provide the Inter-American Commission of Women (CIM), in its role as a specialized organization of the Organization of American States (OAS), with adequate human and financial resources to strengthen its ability to carry out its growing mandates, in particular those recognized as priorities by the member states. To urge the Secretary General to include CIM projects and programs among the priorities presented to external donors for funding. To invite member states and permanent observers, as well as individuals and national or international organizations, whether public or private, that wish to do so to make voluntary contributions to support the development and implementation of CIM projects and programs. To renew the mandate to the Permanent Council, through the Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Affairs (CAAP), to invite the CIM Executive Secretary to present periodic reports on the financial resources needed to fulfill the Commission’s mandates. To request the Secretary General to report, through the Permanent Council, to the General Assembly at its thirty-eighth regular session on the implementation of this resolution. AG/RES. 2324 (XXXVII-O/07) PROMOTION OF WOMEN’S HUMAN RIGHTS AND GENDER EQUITY AND EQUALITY (Adopted at the fourth plenary session, held on June 5, 2007) THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, HAVING SEEN the report of the Secretary General on the implementation of the Inter-American Program on the Promotion of Women’s Human Rights and Gender Equity and Equality (IAP) (CP/doc.4227/07); RECALLING: That, through the adoption of the Inter-American Program on the Promotion of Women’s Human Rights and Gender Equity and Equality [AG/RES. 1732 (XXX-O/00)], the governments of the Hemisphere committed to developing decisive strategies to integrate a gender perspective in all spheres of public life as a way of attaining the ultimate goal of promoting and protecting women’s human rights and gender equity and equality, and of achieving equality of rights and opportunities between women and men; and That international forums such as the Summits of the Americas, the Special Conference on Security, held in Mexico, and the Summit of the Americas on Sustainable Development (Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, 1996) have reiterated the mandate to promote gender equity and equality in all areas; and CONSIDERING: The mandate emerging from the aforementioned resolution for the Organization of American States (OAS) to facilitate the integration of a gender perspective into the work of all its organs, agencies, and entities, and to provide support for governments in the systematic compilation and dissemination of statistical data disaggregated by sex; and Resolutions AG/RES. 1777 (XXXI-O/01), AG/RES. 1853 (XXXII-O/02), AG/RES. 1941 (XXXIII-O/03), AG/RES. 2023 (XXXIV-O/04), AG/RES. 2124 (XXXV-O/05), and AG/RES. 2192 (XXXVI-O/06), which took note of the previous reports of the Secretary General on compliance with the IAP, and the encouraging results of the actions taken in this respect by the organs, agencies, and entities of the OAS, reflected in said reports, RESOLVES: To take note of the Secretary General’s sixth report on the implementation of the Inter-American Program on the Promotion of Women’s Human Rights and Gender Equity and Equality (IAP), submitted in fulfillment of resolution AG/RES. 2124 (XXXV-O/05); and to urge him to continue with its implementation. To reaffirm its support for the work of the Inter-American Commission of Women (CIM) as the principal forum for generating hemispheric policy on gender equity and equality and the promotion of women’s human rights; and to continue to support its efforts in the follow-up to and implementation of the IAP, including activities to continue promoting gender mainstreaming in the ministerial meetings on labor, justice, education, and science and technology, and on the issues of leadership, conflict and peacebuilding, and natural disasters, among others, as well as in the follow-up to the mandates of the Summits of the Americas process, in particular the Fourth Summit of the Americas. Once again to request the Permanent Council, in fulfillment of the mandates handed down by this Assembly, by the Summits of the Americas, and by the IAP to: Continue its efforts to integrate a gender perspective into its resolutions, activities, and initiatives, as the case may be, to ensure that they benefit women and men on an equal and equitable basis, drawing upon the expertise of the CIM; and Consider increasing the resources allocated to the CIM in the program-budget, enabling it fully to carry out its mandates. To urge the member states to: Continue their efforts to develop public policies and strengthen institutional mechanisms for the advancement of women and to enforce laws that promote women’s human rights and gender equity and equality, including equal opportunity for women and men at all levels; and Fulfill the mandates of the Fourth Summit of the Americas through: The development of support programs that take into account the different impact of labor and social policies on women and men and that can contribute to eliminating discrimination against women in the workplace and to increasing their full and equal access to decent, dignified, and productive work; and The production and utilization of statistics disaggregated by sex and race, particularly in the labor area, for the development of labor policies based on gender equity and equality. To urge the Secretary General to: Convene, for 2008, the Third Meeting of Ministers or of the Highest-Ranking Authorities Responsible for the Advancement of Women in the Member States and to take the steps necessary to allocate the funds needed for it to be held; Continue promoting, with support from the CIM, full implementation of the IAP so as to achieve integration of a gender perspective into all programs and policies of the Organization of American States (OAS); Continue working with the CIM to ensure the integration of a gender perspective in the development of the programs and actions of all the organs, agencies, and entities of the Organization; Directory: dil dil -> Curriculum vitae md. 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