About CIM: Meetings: CIM Assembly of Delegates

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The CIM Assembly of Delegates is held every two years and brings together the CIM Delegates from each of the OAS Member States in order to examine issues of hemispheric concern and propose and debate policy and programmatic solutions. The CIM Delegates are usually the government authorities responsible for women's and/or gender issues.

Rules of Procedure of the Assembly of Delegates of the Inter-American Commission of Women (Open PDF)

CIM Executive Committee 2022-2025:

  • President
Niurka del Carmen Palacio  (Panama)
  • Vice-Presidents
Antonia Orellana (Chile), 
María Lilian López (El Salvador) and
 Virginia Albert-Poyotte (Saint Lucia)
  • Members

Antigua y Barbuda, Brasil, Canada, Honduras and Uruguay
 
39th Assembly of  Delegates
( Panama city, Panama, May 25 and 26,  2022)

Resultados principales:

38th Assembly of Delegates
(Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, May 7th and 8th 2019)

Key Results:

37th Assembly of Delegates (Lima, Peru - May 24th and 25th 2016)

Key Results:

36th Assembly of Delegates (San José, Costa Rica - October 29th and 30th 2012)

Key Results

35th Assembly of Delegates (Mexico City, Mexico - November 3rd to 5th, 2010)

Key Results

  • Election of CIM President for 2011-2012: Rocio Garcia Gaytan (Mexico)
  • Election of CIM Vice-Presidents 2011-2012: Magdalena Faillace (Argentina), Irene Sandiford-Garner (Barbados) and Sonia Escobedo (Guatemala)
  • Election of Brazil, Costa Rica, Panama, Paraguay and Trinidad & Tobago to the CIM Executive Committee 2011-2012
  • Adoption of the Declaration of the Inter-American Year of Women (CIM/dec.10/10)
  • Adoption of Declarations
  • Adoption of Resolutions
  • To view the documents considered during this meeting, download the .Zip file

34th Assembly of Delegates (Santiago de Chile, Chile - November 10 to 12, 2008)

Key Results

  • Election of CIM President for 2009-2010: Laura Albornoz Pollman (Chile)
    Upon her resignation in October 2009, Ms. Albornoz was substituted as CIM President by Wanda K. Jones (United States)
  • Election of CIM Vice-President 2009-2010: Jeanette Carrillo Madrigal (Costa Rica)
    Upon her resignation in November 2009, Ms. Carrillo was substituted as CIM Vice-President by Loretta Butler-Turner (Bahamas)
  • Election of Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Colombia, Mexico and the United States to the CIM Executive Committee 2009-2010
  • Adoption of the Declaration of Santiago and Resolutions
  • To view the documents considered during this meeting, download the .Zip file

33rd Assembly of Delegates (San Salvador, El Salvador, November 13-15, 2006)

Key Results

32nd Assembly of Delegates (Washington DC, October 27-29, 2004)

Key Results

  • Election of CIM President for 2005-2006: Nilcéa Freire (Brazil)
  • Election of CIM Vice-President 2005-2006: María José Argaña de Mateu (Paraguay)
  • Election of Argentina, Canada, Chile, Mexico and Suriname to the CIM Executive Committee 2005-2006
  • Adoption of Resolutions
  • Photo Gallery
  • Adoption of CIM Biennial Work Plan 2005-2006
  • To view the documents considered during this meeting, download the .Zip file

31st Assembly of Delegates (Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, October 29-31, 2002)

Key Results

  • Election of CIM President for 2003-2004: Yadira Henríquez (Dominican Republic)
  • Election of CIM Vice-President 2003-2004: Florence Ievers (Canada)
  • Election of Guatemala, Nicaragua, Paraguay, United States and Venezuela to the CIM Executive Committee 2003-2004
  • Adoption of Resolutions
  • Photo Gallery
  • Adoption of CIM Biennial Work Plan 2003-2004
  • To view the documents considered during this meeting, download the .Zip file

30th Assembly of Delegates (Washington, D.C., November 15-16, 2000)

Key Results

  • Election of CIM President for 2001-2002: Indranie Chandarpal (Guyana)
  • Election of CIM Vice-President 2001-2002: Nora Uribe (Venezuela)
  • Election of Canada, El Salvador, Honduras, Dominican Republic and Uruguay to the CIM Executive Committee 2001-2002
  • Adoption of Resolutions
  • Adoption of CIM Biennial Work Plan 2001-2002
  • To view the documents considered during this meeting, download the .Zip file

29th Assembly of Delegates (Washington, D.C., November 16-18, 1998)

Key Results

  • Election of CIM President for 1999-2000: Dulce Maria Sauri Riancho (Mexico)
  • Election of CIM Vice-President 1999-2000: Indranie Chandarpal (Guyana)
  • Election of Argentina, Colombia, Jamaica, Paraguay and United States to the CIM Executive Committee 1999-2000
  • Adoption of Resolutions
  • Adoption of CIM Biennial Work Plan 1999-2000
  • To view the documents considered during this meeting, download the .Zip file