CD/RES. 04 (E/05)

 

APPROVAL OF THE INITIATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A REGIONAL DIALOGUE TO DETERMINE THE RELEVANCE, THE NEED AND THE POLITICAL WILL FOR PROMOTING THE CREATION OF AN INTER-AMERICAN CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD 

Submitted by the delegations of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Nicaragua, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Uruguay and Venezuela 

THE DIRECTING COUNCIL,

CONSIDERING: 

1.   That contemporary social dynamics in the countries in the region has led to remarkable developments in the area of children’s rights; an additional effort is now required for their enforcement;

2.   That recent technical surveys have shown that regional lawmaking on children’s rights and its adaptation to the criteria provided for in the Convention on the Rights is still an unfinished and heterogeneous process because the relevant child codes and special laws in force in the Member states of the Organization of American States generally differ as to their concepts, principles and scope;

3.   That pursuant to the precedent paragraph, the Directing Council of the Inter-American Children’s Institute has established the need for undertaking a regional dialogue process that would allow for determining the relevance, the need and the political will to create a binding instrument on children’s rights that would strengthen the inter-American system for the protection of human rights;

RESOLVES:

1.   To approve the initiation of a regional dialogue for the purpose of analyzing the appropriateness, the need, and the political will to promote an Inter-American Convention on the Rights of the Child, in which children, Governments of the OAS Member States and civil society will participate.

2.   To instruct the Legal Program of the IIN to prepare an Operations Plan for conducting the dialogue, to present it to the Directing Council of the of the Institute, and to take the necessary actions for compliance with this resolution.