The
Twenty-ninth Assembly of Delegates was held in Washington,
D.C., from November 16-18, 1998.
Delegates from 34 member states attended the meeting, as well as
representatives from permanent observer countries to the OAS, agencies and
entities of the inter-American and United Nations systems and other
organizations.
The
Assembly elected the CIM Executive Committee for the 1998-2000 term. Dulce
Maria Sauri Riancho, of Mexico, the new president of CIM,
is President of Mexico’s Partido Revolucionario
Institucional (PRI), former Executive Coordinator of Mexico’s Programa
Nacional de la Mujer and former Governor of Yucatán. Indranie
Chandarpal of Guyana is CIM’s Vice President. Ms. Chardarpal, a member
of Parliament and Member of the Cabinet, serves as
Minister in Guyana’s Ministry of Labour, Human Services and Social
Security, and has responsibility for Women’s Affairs and Housing.
Argentina, Colombia, Jamaica,
Paraguay and United States were
also
elected to the Executive Committee.
The
Assembly adopted fifteen resolutions and the Declaration of Santo
Domingo, which promotes full observance of the human rights of women and
reaffirms the support of the Delegates to the strengthening and
modernization of the Commission. In
the programming guidelines adopted for the biennium, priority was assigned
to this topic and to five issues: leadership, violence, poverty, education
and strengthening and modernization of CIM.
