FIFTH
MEETING OF FIRST LADIES FROM CENTRAL AMERICA, BELIZE, PANAMA AND THE
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
“INFORMATION
AND THE RIGHT TO AN ADEQUATE NUTRITION”
San Pedro Sula, Honduras C.A., 30 September, 2004
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FIFTH
MEETING OF FIRST LADIES FROM CENTRAL AMERICA, BELIZE, PANAMA AND THE
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC “INFORMATION
AND THE RIGHT TO AN ADEQUATE NUTRITION” San Pedro Sula, Honduras C.A., 30 September, 2004 |
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FINAL
DECLARATION
WE,
Leila
Rodríguez de Pacheco, First Lady of the Republic of Costa Rica; Ana
Ligia Mixco de Saca, First Lady of the Republic of El Salvador; Wendy
Widmann Lagarde de Berger, First Lady of the Republic of Guatemala;
Lila Abaunza de Bolaños, First Lady of the Republic of
Nicaragua; Margarita Cedeño de Fernández, First Lady of the Dominican
Republic; Vivian del Carmen Fernández de Torrijos, First Lady of the
Republic of Panama, and Aguas Ocaña de Maduro, First Lady of the
Republic of Honduras. CONSIDERING: FIRST:
That the ratification of the agreements concluded in the four previous
Meetings of First Ladies from Central America, Belize, Panama and the
Dominican Republic is of paramount importance for the systematic
monitoring and promotion of the respect for the human rights of children
and adolescents with a special focus on those rights that are subject to
major violations due to the poverty or extreme poverty situation that
they live in. SECOND:
That the extent to which poverty affects families in our countries has
an impact on children who become its main victims, particularly those in
an early stage of development, and that in such sense it should be
recognized that child malnutrition caused by the poor intake of required
foodstuffs and micro-nutrients has a negative incidence on their
integral development, their living conditions, child mortality rates and
–consequently– on the development of our peoples. THIRD:
The importance of developing joint strategies for the promotion of
sustainable approaches to fight against poverty –specially extreme
poverty– in order to privilege the rights of our peoples in all their
dimensions, particularly the right to a nutrition, through the
strengthening of initiatives promoting the combined effort of civil
society, governments, and international organizations.
FOURTH:
That it is also important to foster nutritional programs and projects
that should integrate into mid and long term human development
strategies as a form of contributing to eradicate the welfare approach
and promote the creation of social capital. FIFTH:
The need to create a space for the coordination of inter-state
information providing for a comprehensive system for monitoring the
enforcement of the basic rights of children and adolescents and serving
as a technical tool to help fighting the scourge of hunger, specially
during infancy as the vital stage of child development. SIXTH:
That the Site for Action Coordination, the Inter-American Child
Information Network, the Legal Database, and the Child Information
System (SIPI) promoted by the Inter-American Children’s Institute (IIN)
should be recognized as important tools for reaching a better
acquaintance to the situation of children and adolescents in our
countries. SEVENTH:
That the Site for Action Coordination –www.coordiinacion.org–
funded by the Canadian International Development Agency and developed by
the IIN has completed its trial period and achieved high coordination
levels among the authorities responsible for children and adolescents,
thus facilitating, among other things, the resolution of concrete cases
of violations of children’s rights in our countries. HEREBY
AGREE: 1.-
To promote the development of public policies, programs, projects, and
concrete actions aimed to solve hunger and nutritional safety issues so
that children may truly exercise their right to a an adequate nutrition
as provided for in Article 24 in the Convention on the Rights of the
Child and in national regulatory frameworks, focusing our resources on
infancy as the basic development stage, in order to fight against child
malnutrition resulting from the inadequate intake of foodstuffs and
micro-nutrients. 2.-
To promote actions for implementing public campaigns in order to make
our citizens aware of the malnutrition impact on pregnancy,
breastfeeding, and infancy. 3.-
To call upon government institutions, regional and international
cooperation, and civil society for the purpose of building up a society
with social equity, and to request them to allocate resources and
promote the right of children and adolescents in our countries to have
an adequate nutrition in compliance with the Millennium development
goals. 4.-
To deepen and foster the sustainable introduction of Information Systems
contributing to become aware of any possible violation of the rights
provided for in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, as already
promoted by the Inter-American Children’s Institute (IIN). 5.-
To further foster the Child
Information Network for Central America, Panama, and the Dominican
Republic as a coordination mechanism on information concerning the
rights of children and adolescents, which will articulate its operations
with the coordination centers in each one of our countries, and to
request the technical assistance of the Inter-American Children’s
Institute for its implementation. 6.-
To thank the First Lady of Costa Rica, Ms. Leila Rodríguez de Pacheco,
for her kind invitation to hold in her country the Sixth Meeting of
First Ladies from Central America, Belize, Panama, and the Dominican
Republic on 2005. 7.-
To thank the First Lady of the Dominican Republic, Ms. Margarita Cedeño
de Fernández, for her kind invitation to hold in her country the
Seventh Meeting of First Ladies from Central America, Belize, Panama,
and the Dominican Republic on 2006. 8.- To thank the First Lady of the Republic of Honduras, Ms. Aguas Ocaña de Maduro, for having convened and organized this Meeting, as well as the people and Government of Honduras for their kind hospitality during this Fifth Meeting of First Ladies from Central America, Belize, Panama, and the Dominican Republic that was held in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, on 30 September, 2004.
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Leila Rodríguez de Pacheco
Ana
Ligia Mixto de Saca _______________________________
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Wendy Widmann Lagarde de Berger
Aguas Ocaña de Maduro ______________________________
_______________________________ Vivian
del Carmen Fernández de Torrijos
Margarita Cedeño de Fernández
_______________________________ Amalia Frech de Alemán
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