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Work Plan
The Inter-American Program for the Promotion and
Protection of the Human Rights of Migrants, in order
to ensure its proper implementation, instructs the Secretary
General to prepare, present, and update a Work Plan designed
for planning and implementing the activities and objectives
of the Program.
The Program assigns 33 specific activities to the different
areas in the General Secretariat. These activities, designed
to promote public policies and practices for the protection
of migrants, cover a wide spectrum which ranges from dissemination
of information on existing legislation, to concrete actions
for promoting the human rights of migrants.
The Work Plan itself represents one of two important
follow-up mechanisms (the other being annual Special
Sessions for the evaluation and improvement of the Program)
and provides a timetable schedule for the manner in which
the relevant organs, organisms and agencies of the OAS will
carry out the activities entrusted to them by the Program.
The links to the left provide a copy of the Work Plan, as
well as specific information in the manner in which each
area of the OAS General Secretariat is currently
implementing the activities enunciated in the Program and
Work Plan.
Finally, it should also be mentioned that the Program
recommends more than 100 other activities to three
additional groups of implementers: OAS member states,
multilateral and regional organizations, and civil society
organizations. These include signing, ratifying, or acceding
to universal and inter-American human rights and migrants’
rights instruments, reviewing their legislation to ensure
that it is consistent with the obligation to respect
migrants’ human rights; training government officials who
perform migration-related functions in the legal framework
with respect to migration and the protection of the human
rights of migrants, and so on.
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