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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)

Working Group for the analysis of national reports under the Protocol of San Salvador

MAIN ACTIVITIES OF THE WORKING GROUP

• Meeting of the Working Group
  Washington, DC – October 24 and 25, 2012
  Press Release
• Final Document of “Progress Indicators for Measuring Rights Under the Protocol of San Salvador” rev.2 and Executive Summary (documents available only in Spanish)
  Working Group letter to the CAJP (available only in Spanish)
  December, 2011
• Technical Meeting of the Committee on Juridical and Political Affairs of the Permanent Council of the OAS
  Meeting Report (available only in Spanish)
  PowerPoint presentation of the Working Group
  “Progress Indicators for Measuring Rights Under the Protocol of San Salvador” rev.1 and Executive Summary (documents available only in Spanish)
  Press Release
  Washington, DC – October 27, 2011
• Meeting of the Working Group with regional experts
  The event was organized in partnership with the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights (IIDH)
  Agenda (available only in Spanish)
  Press Release
  Bogota, Colombia – August 31 and September 1, 2011
• Activities Report of the Working Group (available only in Spanish)
  May 2010 – May 2011
• Presentation to the Committee on Juridical and Political Affairs of the Permanent Council of the OAS
  Presentation of the Draft Document “Progress Indicators for Measuring Rights Under the Protocol of San Salvador” (available only in Spanish)
  Washington DC – April 5, 2011
• Working Group Meeting
  Completion of the Draft Document “Progress Indicators for Measuring Rights Under the Protocol of San Salvador” and its Executive Summary (documents available only in Spanish)
  Washington, DC – February 14 to 16, 2011

THE CREATION OF THE WORKING GROUP

The General Norms for the preparation of the periodic reports under the Protocol of San Salvador, approved by Resolution AG/RES. 2074 (XXXV-O/05), state that: 

“The reports submitted by the states parties to the Protocol shall be examined by a working group that will function in the framework of Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI). This Working Group shall issue such general recommendations, as it deems pertinent. It will prepare its own rules of procedure and the General Secretariat shall provide the assistance necessary for it to carry out its activities.”

The Working Group was constituted following the parameters established under Resolution AG/RES. 2262 (XXXVII-O/07) with the designation of its members and it is considered operational since March 2010.

Its current members are:

The General Secretariat assigned the Department of Social Development and Employment of the OAS as Technical Secretariat of the Working Group.