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AG/RES. 2161 (XXXVI-O/06) STRENGTHENING OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION OF WOMEN
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AG/RES. 2161 (XXXVI-O/06)STRENGTHENING OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION OF WOMEN(Adopted at the fourth plenary session, held on June 6, 2006) THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, BEARING IN MIND resolution AG/RES. 2099 (XXXV-O/05), “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; CONSIDERING that in the last five years the CIM has received additional mandates from the member states of the Organization of American States (OAS) without the corresponding budgetary appropriations, even though it carries out the following activities, which the member states consider a priority: a. It serves as the organ for follow-up, coordination, and evaluation of the Inter-American Program on the Promotion of Women’s Human Rights and Gender Equity and Equality (IAP) [AG/RES. 1732 (XXX-O/00)]; b. It is responsible for promoting measures aimed at institutionalizing integration of the gender perspective into the organs, agencies, and entities of the inter-American system; c. It serves as the technical advisory body of the Summit Implementation Review Group (SIRG) on all aspects of gender equity and equality (chapter 15, Plan of Action of the Third Summit of the Americas); d. It collaborates with the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in strengthening national capacities to produce statistics broken down by sex and race, especially in the labor area (item 22, Plan of Action of the Fourth Summit of the Americas); e. It serves as coordinator, together with the General Secretariat, of the Meeting of Ministers or of the Highest-Ranking Authorities Responsible for the Advancement of Women in the Member States (REMIM), which is held every four years [AG/RES. 1741 (XXX-O/00)]; and f. It assists OAS bodies and member states in their efforts to combat the crime of trafficking in persons, especially women, adolescents, and children [CIM/RES. 225 (XXI-O/02)]; CONSIDERING ALSO that the Permanent Secretariat of the CIM is the 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 recently established Mechanism to follow up on implementation of said Convention (MESECVI) [AG/RES. 2138 (XXXV-O/05)]; and RECALLING: That resolution AG/RES. 1732 (XXX-O/00), which adopted the 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; 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) 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 That at the Second Meeting of Ministers or of the Highest-Ranking Authorities Responsible for the Advancement of Women in the Member States (REMIM-II), held in April 2004, the ministers adopted resolution CIM/REMIM-II/RES. 8/04, “Strengthening of the CIM,” which reiterated the need for greater human and financial support for the Permanent Secretariat of the CIM, RESOLVES:
AG/RES. 2162 (XXXVI-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”(Adopted at the fourth plenary session, held on June 6, 2006) THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, HAVING SEEN resolution AG/RES. 2138 (XXXV-O/05), “Fourth Biennial Report on Fulfillment of Resolution AG/RES. 1456 (XXVII-O/97), ‘Promotion of the Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment, and Eradication of Violence against Women, Convention of Belém do Pará,’” which requested the Permanent Council to report to the General Assembly at its thirty-sixth regular session on implementation of the 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” (MESECVI); CONSIDERING: That the Convention of Belém do Pará, adopted in 1994, states in its preamble that “the elimination of violence against women is essential for their individual and social development and their full and equal participation in all walks of life”; That, in the Convention of Belém do Pará, the states parties “agree to pursue, by all appropriate means and without delay, policies to prevent, punish and eradicate” all forms of violence against women; and That the Convention of Belém do Para is the only specific, binding international legal instrument on gender-based violence and has become an important driving force for the states parties thereto to undertake to implement policies, laws, and national and regional action programs to eradicate violence against women; OBSERVING that, to date, following ratification by the Government of Jamaica, 32 member states have ratified the Convention of Belém do Pará, thereby expressing their absolute rejection of and concern over any act of gender-based violence and demonstrating their commitment to the fulfillment of the Convention’s objectives and of the obligations they have assumed; BEARING IN MIND that the Plans of Action of the Summits of the Americas, the Strategic Plan of Action of the Inter-American Commission of Women (CIM), and the Inter-American Program for the Promotion of Women’s Human Rights and Gender Equity and Equality (IAP) have considered gender-based violence as an area for priority attention; BEARING IN MIND ALSO: That the reports of the Special Rapporteurship on the Rights of Women of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights have demonstrated a marked interest in implementing and following up on the Convention; and That despite the steps taken by countries in the region, violence against women continues to be an area of special concern, which led the states parties to establish a mechanism to follow up on implementation of the Convention of Belém do Pará, as a means by which to gauge progress and trends toward the fulfillment of its objectives and to facilitate cooperation among the states parties and with all member states of the Organization of American States (OAS); and RECALLING: That on October 26, 2004, the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Prevention, Punishment, and Eradication of Violence against Women, “Convention of Belém do Pará,” with the participation of the states not party and with technical assistance from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and the OAS Secretariat for Legal Affairs, adopted the Statute of the MESECVI; That the OAS General Secretariat, through the Permanent Secretariat of the CIM, serves as the secretariat to the organs of the MESECVI, with advice, where appropriate, from the IACHR, as well as from other areas of the General Secretariat; That during the First Meeting of Experts, on August 24, 2005, regulatory instruments were adopted to govern the work of the Committee of Experts of the MESECVI, along with the criteria to guide the first round of evaluation; and That, to date, 26 states parties have appointed experts and competent national authorities, and that the time frames and actions agreed to by the states parties and the experts are being kept to, in accordance with the work schedule adopted, RESOLVES: 1. To take note of the report of the Permanent Council on implementation of the Mechanism to Follow Up on Implementation of the Convention on the Prevention, Punishment, and Eradication of Violence against Women, “Convention of Belém do Pará” (MESECVI). 2. To welcome the start of procedures that will lead to the first round of evaluation of the MESECVI; and to express its conviction that this exercise will contribute significantly to achievement of the objectives set forth in the Convention. 3. To congratulate the states parties for their efforts to fulfill the objectives of the Convention by implementing the MESECVI; and to urge those that have not already done so to appoint an expert and competent national authority and to submit their responses to the questionnaire, in order to guarantee the full implementation and success of the Mechanism. 4. To reiterate its gratitude to the Permanent Secretariat of the Inter-American Commission of Women (CIM) for its support of the states parties during the process of adoption of the MESECVI and to thank it for the important role it plays as secretariat of the Mechanism with a view to contributing to the fulfillment of the objectives of the Convention of Belém do Pará.
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o 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.