SPECIALIZED ORGANIZATION OF THE  OAS

79ª MEETING OF THE DIRECTING COUNCIL
INTER-AMERICAN CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE 

October 25 to 26, 2004
Mexico City- Mexico

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CD/RES 13 (79-04)

WORKING GROUPS OF THE NINETEENTH PAN AMERICAN
CHILD CONGRESS AND THEIR ASSIGNED SUB-THEMES  

THE DIRECTING COUNCIL,  

HAVING SEEN: 

That the Nineteenth Pan American Child Congress will be held on 27-29 October, 2004 in Mexico City, with the Inter-American Children’s Institute acting as its Executive Secretariat;  

That this Pan American Congress will adopt as its main theme “The Family: Basis for the Integral Development of Children and Adolescents”;  

CONSIDERING: 

That Resolution AG/RES. 2031 (XXXIV - O/04) convened all the OAS member states, institutions and key people who advocate and promote the rights of children and the family to attend the Nineteenth Pan American Child Congress; 

That Article 19 in the Rules of Procedure of the Nineteenth Pan American Child Congress establishes that the Directing Council should define the Working Groups and assign their respective sub-themes.  

RESOLVES: 

To establish three Working Groups for the discussion of the following sub-themes:  

Group 1: 

Sub-theme 1: “The Family as the Institution with Primary Responsibility for the Protection, Upbringing, and Integral Development of Children and Adolescents.”

Sub-theme 4: “The Doctrine of Integral Protection and Current Family Law.”

Group 2:   

Sub-theme 2: “Evolution of the Child’s Relationship with the Family.” 

Sub-theme 3: “Children’s Rights and their Relation to the Different Types of Families.”

Group 3: 

Sub-theme 5: “Family Violence and its Impact on Child Development.”