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Mexico City
27-29 October, 2004  

IIN/RES. 3 (XIX-04)

Children’s Rights and Their Relation with the Family  
(Submitted by the Delegations of Canada, Paraguay and Uruguay)  

THE NINETEENTH PAN AMERICAN CHILD CONGRESS,  

CONSIDERING:  

1. That operative paragraph 2 of resolution AG/RES. 1951 (XXXIII-O/03) adopted by the OAS General Assembly states: “… Further, to reaffirm support for the work of the Inter-American Children’s Institute as a specialized organization of the Organization of American States, which is entrusted with promoting the study of subjects relating to mothers, children, adolescents, and the family in the Americas and the adoption of measures for solving their problems, in particular its activities to assist member states in their efforts to promote the establishment of national children’s systems and the professionalization of the national authorities entrusted with the topic of children”;  

2. That one of the purposes of the Inter-American Children’s Institute, as provided for in its Statute, is to study the nature, scope, seriousness, and significance of the various problems affecting mothers, children, the family, and the community in the Americas;  
   
   

3. That the heterogeneity and cultural diversity that prevail in the countries of our region make it necessary to carry out technical studies on the rights of children and their families;  

RESOLVES:  

To entrust the IIN to prepare, subject to its resource availability, a comprehensive study on the rights of children and their families and to design a proposal on the possible forms of protecting children’s rights.