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

MAIN ACTIVITIES OF THE WORKING GROUP

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:

Government Experts

Paola Buendía García

Colombia

Elected Member

Flávia Piovesan

Brazil

Elected Member

Ramiro Ávila Santamaría

Ecuador

Elected Member

Independent Expert

Laura Pautassi

Argentina

Elected Member

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

Rose-Marie B. Antoine

Trinidad and Tobago

Elected Member

Rosa María Ortiz

Paraguay

Alternate

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