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Consultation period on the second group of rights of the Protocol of San Salvador (Spanish only)

International seminar "Indicators of economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR) and monitoring of social policies for poverty reduction and the achievement of equality" (Spanish only)

CP/CEPCIDI Group

The Joint Working Group of the Permanent Council (PC) and the Special Permanent Committee of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CEPCIDI) for the drafting of the Social Charter of the Americas and its Plan of Action

The General Assembly, through the resolution AG/RES. 2056 (XXXIV-O/04), commended the drafting of the Social Charter and its Plan of Action to the Permanent Council and the Inter-American Executive Permanent Council for Integral Development (CEPCIDI).

Consequently, a Joint Working Group of the Permanent Council (PC) and the Special Permanent Committee of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CEPCIDI) was established in 2005. Since then, the Working Group has been negotiating the texts for the Preamble, Operative section, and Plan of Action of the Charter. For more information, please visit the Joint Working Group.

After the start of the negotiation on September 2005, the Working Group ends the proposal of the preamble and operative clauses of draft of the Social Charter of the Americas on October 26, 2011.

Chair of the Working Group CP/CEPCIDI

The document AG/doc. 4459/05 “Joint Report of the Permanent Council and CEPCIDI on the implementation of Resolution AG/RES. 2056 (XXXIV-O/04)” established a rotation system for the Chair. It was agreed that:

1. The governing body of the Joint Working Group will be composed of one chair and four vice chairs, elected according to the principle of equitable geographic distribution among the sub-regions;

2. The chair will serve one nonrenewable term of six months;

3. The office of chair will rotate at the end of each six-month term. The outgoing chair cannot be reelected, and will become a vice chair;

4. The first chair of the Joint Working Group will be the Permanent Representative of Venezuela, Ambassador Jorge Valero Briseño, as proposed by ALADI;

5. The order of succession of subsequent chairs will be determined by the Joint Working Group itself;

6. The Joint Working Group will begin its work on September 1, 2005;

Since then, the Chair has been held by:
 

Technical Secretarial of the Social Charter

The Department of Social Development and Employment is the Technical Secretariat of the Joint Working Group in charge of the drafting of the Social Charter of the Americas.

The resolution AG/RES 2056 (XXXIV-O/04) instructed the Permanent Council and the Permanent Executive Committee of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CEPCIDI) to jointly prepare a draft Social Charter of the Americas and a Plan of Action; which includes the principles of social development and establishes specific goals and targets that reinforce the existing instruments of the Organization of American States on democracy, integral development, and the fight against poverty.

The Joint Working Group of the Permanent Council and CEPCIDI started its activities on September 1st, 2005. Since then, the Technical Secretariat has received various mandates to prepare supporting documents for drafting the Social Charter of the Americas.

The main purpose of this page is to support the Joint Working Group in its endeavors as well as to inform Member States, and all other interested organizations or persons on the progress of negotiation, the documents issued by the Working Group and all other relevant materials.