Reference Documents

On September 1, 2005, during the first meeting of the Joint Working Group of the Social Charter of the Americas, it was decided to give until October 19, 2005 to Member States to submit their inputs for the elaboration of the Social Charter. The Secretariat received eight documents presented by different countries or group of countries. Also, based on theses inputs, the General Secretariat prepared a Working document for the discussion of the Working Group.
 

  Bolivia United States
  Canada Mesoamerican
  CARICOM Peru
  Chile Venezuela


Other contributions

During the process of discussion and negotiation of the Social Charter of the Americas, it was received several inputs from countries or group of countries, which are listed below:

ALADI

Contributions of the Member States of the ALADI Group for the Operative Section of the Draft Social Charter of the Americas: Thematic Reorganization and Proposal of Introductory Articles (Adopted at the meeting held December 18, 206)

ALADI proposal for Chapter I of the Preliminary Draft of the Operative Section of the Draft Social Charter of the Americas

Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Uruguay y Venezuela

Proposals by the Delegations of Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Uruguay, and Venezuela for Chapter II of the operative section of the Draft Social Charter of the Americas

Proposal by the Delegations of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Uruguay, and Venezuela for Chapter III of the operative section of the Draft Social Charter of the Americas

Note from the Permanent Mission of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, forwarding the draft “Social Charter of the Americas”

Canada

Canadian proposals for consideration in the context of Chapter III of the Operative Section of the Draft Social Charter of the Americas -Social development, equal opportunity, and non-discrimination

Costa Rica

Draft Social Charter of the Americas Proposal by the delegation of Costa Rica for Chapter IV Cultural Development, Diversity, and Pluralism

El Salvador

Note from the Permanent Mission of El Salvador transmitting a proposal by the Central American Group (GRUCA) on the preparation of the draft social Charter of the Americas and a plan of action

Note from the Permanent Mission of El Salvador submitting a proposed text for article 4 of chapter v of the operative section of the Draft Social Charter of the Americas

Guatemala

Proposal presented by the Delegation of Guatemala for a new article on access to water

Note from the Permanent Mission of Guatemala presenting a proposal by the Republic of Guatemala for a paragraph in the preamble to the Social Charter of the Americas

Mexico

Comparative exercise on main international instruments on social rights and principles (available only in Spanish)

United States

Alternative Proposal for paragraph 4 (Old 3) of Article 2, Chapter II of the operative section of the Draft Social Charter of the Americas presented by the Delegation of the United States

Proposal for the Chapter III of the Operative Section of the Draft Social Charter of the Americas (Proposal prepared by the Delegation of the United States)

Proposal for chapter IV - Cultural development, diversity and pluralism - of the Draft Social Charter of the Americas (Presented by the Delegation of the United States)

Proposal for chapter V (Solidarity and Collective Effort of the Americas) of the Draft Social Charter of the Americas (Presented by the Delegation of the United States)

Civil Society

CARICOM Charter of Civil Society

Meeting of the Joint Working Group with the participation of representatives of international organizations (Special Meeting held of October 13, 2005)


Documents prepared by the Technical Secretariat as input to the Working Group

1. The Concept of Gender in the Social Charter (Document presented by the Technical Secretariat of the Joint Working Group of the Permanent Council and CEPCIDI on the Draft Social Charter of the Americas in response to the request for information made at the meeting of the Working Group on September 20, 2011)

2. Consolidated document of proposals for Chapters IV and V of the Draft Social Charter of the Americas (Proposals by the Secretariat and Member States)

3. Proposal for Chapters IV (Cultural development, diversity and pluralism) and Chapter V (Solidarity and Collective Effort of the Americas) of the Draft Social Charter of the Americas (Document presented by the Secretariat)

4. Reorganization of the Working Document for the Discussions of the Working Group (Document prepared by the General Secretariat pursuant to the mandate received at the meeting of the Drafting group celebrated on March 6, 2007)

5. Explanatory note from the Secretariat on the drafting of the reordering of the working document GTC/CASA/doc.20/05 corr 1

6. Presentation by the Executive Secretariat for Integral Development on factors to take into consideration in drafting a proposed plan of action for chapter one of the Social Charter of the Americas

7. Resolutions on informal work by the Inter-American Conference of Ministers of Labour (IACML), the Fourth Summit of the Americas and the International Labour Organization (ILO) (Informative document presented by the Secretariat)

8. Proposal for Chapter III of the Operative Section of the Draft Social Charter of the Americas (Proposal prepared by the Secretariat)

9. Preliminary Draft Plan of Action of the Social Charter of the Americas (Presented by the General Secretariat)

10. Draft operative paragraphs to the Social Charter of the Americas (Working document prepared by the OAS General Secretariat for the Working Group to Prepare the Social Charter of the Americas and its Plan of Action)

11. Draft preamble to the Social Charter of the Americas (Working document prepared by the OAS General Secretariat for the Working Group to Prepare the Social Charter of the Americas and its Plan of Action)

12. Outline for the operative section of the Social Charter of the Americas: Option A

13. Outline for the operative section of the Social Charter of the Americas: Option B

14. Working document for the discussions of the Working Group (Document prepared by the General Secretariat pursuant to the mandate contained in document CP/SA.1489/05)

15. Background and proposals for drafting the Social Charter of the Americas (Presented by the General Secretariat)