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OAS Organizes Course on Effective Social Policy in Montevideo

  December 8, 2012

The Organization of American States (OAS) will hold from December 10 to 14 in Montevideo, Uruguay, a course on the use of economic, social and cultural indicators to develop effective social policies.

The course aims to support the OAS Member States in the monitoring of the instruments of economic, social and cultural rights of the Inter-American System, as key elements of an effective social policy. The workshop will place particular emphasis on the Protocol of San Salvador, the monitoring process for which is currently underway and for which the States Parties must submit reports over the next two years pursuant to Article 19.

The activities will be led by distinguished speakers and lecturers from various international organizations and academic institutions, and the participants will be government officials of OAS Member States with technical responsibilities for coordination of social policies and/or economic, social and cultural rights.

The course is organized by the Executive Secretariat for Integral Development of the OAS and el Centro de Formación de la Agencia de Cooperación Española en Montevideo, with the support of the Ministry of Social Development of Uruguay, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Inter-American Institute for Human Rights.

WHAT: Regional Training Course on the Use of Indicators of Economic, Social and Cultural rights as a Tool for Effective Social Policy

WHEN: From December 10 to 14, 2012

WHERE: Centro AECID
Montevideo, Uruguay

Reference: AVI-251/12