CP/RES. 1012 (1906/13)

INVITATIONS TO THE FORTY-FOURTH SPECIAL SESSION
OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY

(Adopted by the Permanent Council at its meeting of March 13, 2013)

THE PERMANENT COUNCIL OF THE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES,

TAKING INTO ACCOUNT that the forty-fourth special session of the General Assembly will be held at the headquarters of the General Secretariat of the Organization of American States, in Washington, D.C., on March 22, 2013; and

CONSIDERING the provisions of Articles 9 and 10 of the Rules of Procedure of the General Assembly,

RESOLVES:

1. To authorize the Secretary General of the Organization to invite the following inter-American regional or subregional governmental entities and agencies to attend the forty-fourth special session of the General Assembly as observers:

• Association of Caribbean States
• Latin American Integration Association (LAIA)
• Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI)
• Caribbean Development Bank (CDB)
• Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
• Permanent Commission for the South Pacific (CPPS)
• Andean Community
• Caribbean Community (CARICOM)
• Andean Development Corporation (CAF)
• Andean Health Organization - Hipólito Unánue Agreement
• Financial Fund for the Development of the River Plate Basin (FONPLATA)
• Inter-American Statistical Institute (IASI)
• Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America (OPANAL)
• Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS)
• Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO)
• Latin American Energy Organization (OLADE)
• Andean Parliament
• Central American Parliament
• Latin American Parliament
• Mesoamerican Integration and Development Project (former Puebla Panama Plan)
• Central American Secretariat for Economic Integration (SIECA)
• Secretariat of the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR)
• Central American Integration System (SICA)
• Latin American and Caribbean Economic System (SELA)
• Union of South American Nations (UNASUR)

2. To authorize the Secretary General of the Organization to invite the following specialized agencies of the United Nations and other international organizations to send observers to represent them at the forty-fourth special session:

• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
• World Bank
• Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
• Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO)
• United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
• Council of Europe
• United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT)
• International Court of Justice (ICJ)
• International Civil Service Commission (ICSC)
• United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
• United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
• Capital Development Fund (CDF)
• International Fund for Agricultural Development (FIDA)
• International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• United Nations Latin American Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (ILANUD)
• Joint UN Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
• UN Women
• United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
• Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
• International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
• International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
• International Organization for Migration
• International Labour Organization (ILO)
• International Maritime Organization (IMO)
• World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
• World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
• World Health Organization (WHO)
• World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)
• United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
• United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
• World Food Programme (WFP)
• International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
• Universal Postal Union (UPU)
• United Nations Volunteers (UNV)
• Latin American Association of Development Finance Institutions (ALIDE)
• Border Environment Cooperation Commission (BECC)
• Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (CPLP)
• Latin-American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO)
• Regional Cooperation Center for Adult Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (CREFAL)
• Inter-American Institute of Human Rights (IIHR)
• International Integration Institute
• Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI)
• Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC)
• League of Arab States
• Organization of Women of the Americas
• International Organization of la Francophonie
• Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)
• Ibero-American General Secretariat (SEGIB)
• Commonwealth Secretariat
• African Union (AU)
• Latin Union
• Postal Union of the Americas, Spain and Portugal (PUASP)
• International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA)
• Young Americas Business Trust (YABT)
• Parliamentarians of the Americas (ParlAmericas)

3. To authorize the Secretary General of the Organization to extend invitations to the following seventy five (75) civil society organizations to attend the forty-fourth special session of the General Assembly as special guests.

Civil society organizations registered with the OAS

Argentina

1. Asamblea Permanente por los Derechos Humanos (APDH)
2. Asociación por los Derechos Civiles

Brazil

3. Instituto Brasileiro de Fluência (IBF)
4. United Rede de Dereitos Humanos (URIDH)

Bolivia

5. Latin American and Caribbean Committee for the Defence of Women's Rights (CLADEM)
6. Fundación de Apoyo al Parlamento y la Participación Ciudadana (FUNDAPPAC)
7. Red Participación y Justicia

Chile

8. Fundación Pro Acceso

Colombia

9. Afroamérica XXI
10. Asociación de Mujeres Afrocolombianas (AMUAFROC)
11. Centro de Estudios de Derecho, Justicia y Sociedad (Dejusticia)
12. Colectivo de Abogados "José Alvear Restrepo" (CCAJAR)
13. Consultoría para los Derechos Humanos y el Desplazamiento (CODHES)
14. Corporación Alegría (Corpoalegría)
15. Corporación Reiniciar
16. Organización Nacional para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos (ONALDEP)Fundación Mamonal

Costa Rica

17. Centro Feminista de Información y Acción (CEFEMINA)
18. Fundación Ambio
19. Asociación Mulabi – Grupo de Trabajo Latinoamericano por los Derechos Sexuales, A.C.

Ecuador

20. Fundación Andina para la Observación y Estudio de Medios (FUNDAMEDIOS)

France

21. Federation Internationale des Ligues des Droites de l'Homme/International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)

Guatemala

22. Asociación Interamericana de Defensorías Públicas (AIDEF)

Guyana

23. National Youth Development Network (NYDN)
24. Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD)

Mexico

25. Centro de Derechos Humanos de la Montaña, Tlachinollan
26. Centro de Derechos Humanos Miguel Agustin Pro Juarez, A.C. (PRODH)
27. Unidad Industrial Iztapalapa, A.C.

Nicaragua

28. Centro Nicaragüense de Derechos Humanos (CENIDH)

Paraguay

29. Aireana Grupo por los Derechos de las Lesbianas
30. Organización Semillas para la Democracia

Peru

31. Coordinadora Nacional de Derechos Humanos – Peru (CNDDHH)
32. Instituto de Defensa Legal (IDL)

United Kingdom

33. Amnesty International

United States

34. Alianza de Mesas Redondas Panamericanas
35. Asociación Interamericana para la Defensa del Medio Ambiente/Inter-American Association for Environmental Defense
36. B'nai B'rith International
37. Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL)
38. Due Process Law Foundation (DPLF)
39. Focus on the Family
40. Freedom House
41. Indian Law Resource Center
42. Latin American and Caribbean Network for Democracy/Red Latinoamericana y del Caribe para la Democracia (RedLad)
43. The Carter Center

Civil society organizations not registered with the OAS

Argentina

44. Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (CELS)

Brazil

45. Associação Artigo 19
46. Grupo Tortura Nunca Mais/RJ
47. Instituto de Estudos sobre a Violência do Estado
48. Instituto de Estudos da Religião (ISER)

Chile

49. Centro Regional de Derechos Humanos y Justicia de Género

Colombia

50. Nimuafro- Afroricha- Mujeres Negras Emprendedoras de Colombia

Costa Rica

51. Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) Mesoamerica

El Salvador

52. Asociación de Pro-Búsqueda de Niñas y Niños Desaparecidos en El Salvador (Asociación PROBÚSQUEDA)
53. Fundación de Estudios para la Aplicación del Derecho (FESPAD)

Guatemala

54. Asociación para el Estudio y Promoción de la Seguridad en Democracia (SEDEM)
55. Myrna Mack Foundation
56. Grupo de Apoyo Mutuo (GAM)
57. Refugio de la Niñez
58. Unidad de Protección a Defensoras y Defensores de Derechos Humanos - Guatemala ONG (UDEFEGUA)

Haiti

59. Groupe de Concertation des Femmes Victimes (GCFV)

Honduras

60. Asociación de Jueces por la Democracia (AJD)
61. Comité de Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos en Honduras (COFADEH)
62. Sociedad Hermanas de la Misericordia en Honduras

Mexico

63. Ciudadanos en Apoyo a los Derechos Humanos
64. Centro de Derechos Humanos de las Mujeres

Peru

65. Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos (APRODEH)

Trinidad and Tobago

66. Association of Caribbean Media Workers

United Kingdom

67. Peace Brigades International

United States

68. Alvarez Martinez Law Firm LLC
69. American Civil Liberties Union
70. Guatemala Human Rights Commission/USA
71. International Law Human Rights Clinic (University of California, Berkeley)
72. Travelers and Immigrants Aid’s Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Human Rights (Heartland Alliance)

Uruguay

73. Instituto de Estudios Legales y Sociales Del Uruguay (IELSUR)
74. Servicio Paz y Justicia (SERPAJ Uruguay)

Venezuela

75. Espacio Público