AG/RES. 1325 (XXV-O/95)

ENHANCEMENT OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE IN THE AMERICAS

(Resolution adopted at the ninth plenary session, held on June 9, 1995)

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,

HAVING SEEN the Report of the Permanent Council on Enhancement of the Administration of Justice in the Americas (AG/doc.3177/95), presented pursuant to resolution AG/RES. 1272 (XXIV-O/94);

CONSIDERING:

That the member states have adopted, within the framework of the Organization, numerous conventions that regulate the most varied aspects of juridical relations; and

That there is an urgent need for greater familiarity with these rules, the application of which will help to enhance the administration of justice; and

TAKING INTO ACCOUNT that the Permanent Council established a working group which, inter alia, did a careful survey of the actions already taken by the various organs of the Organization in the area of the administration of justice and proposed actions conducive to proper dissemination of information on the international rules of law emerging from the inter-American system, for which the General Secretariat of the Organization is depositary,

RESOLVES:

  1. To endorse in its entirety the Report of the Permanent Council on Enhancement of the Administration of Justice in the Americas.

  2. To instruct the Permanent Council, through its Working Group on Enhancement of the Administration of Justice in the Americas and in conjunction with the Inter-American Juridical Committee and the General Secretariat, to take the necessary steps to increase awareness and disseminate information in the member states concerning the international rules of law emanating from the inter-American system and, in particular, from the instruments for which the OAS General Secretariat is depositary.

  3. To request the Permanent Council to present a report on the execution of these activities to the General Assembly at its twenty-sixth regular session.

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