OEA/Ser.P
AG/doc. 4360/04 corr. 1
18 June 2004
Original: Spanish
June 6-8, 2004
Quito, Ecuador
DECLARATIONS AND RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL
ASSEMBLY
AT ITS THIRTY-FOURTH REGULAR SESSION
(Subject to review by the Style Committee)
AG/RES. 2031 (XXXIV-O/04)
NINETEENTH PAN AMERICAN CHILD CONGRESS
(Adopted at the fourth plenary session held on June 8, 2004)
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
TAKING INTO ACCOUNT its resolutions AG/RES. 1951 (XXXIII-O/03),
“Promotion and Protection of the Human Rights of Children in the Americas,” and
AG/RES. 1961 (XXXIII-O/03), “Nineteenth Pan American Child Congress”;
REAFFIRMING its commitment to create a world fit for children, in which
sustainable human development, taking into account the best interest of the child, is
founded on principles of democracy, equality, nondiscrimination, peace and social
justice, and the universality, indivisibility, interdependence, and interrelatedness of all
human rights, including the right to development;
CONSIDERING the appeal made in the Plan of Action of the Third Summit of
the Americas, held in Quebec City, for full integration of the human rights of children
and adolescents into the work of hemispheric institutions, and the important work being
done by the Organization of American States, through its specialized organizations and
conferences and its organs, agencies, and entities, to protect and promote the human
rights of children;
BEARING IN MIND the Nineteenth Pan American Child Congress, to be held
in Mexico in October 2004, at which the Inter-American Children’s Institute will serve
as Executive Secretariat; and
JOINING in the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the International Year of
the Family, proclaimed in 1994 by the United Nations General Assembly in resolution
44/82,
RESOLVES:
1.
To express its satisfaction with the upcoming Nineteenth Pan American
Child Congress, whose central theme is the family, as it is the foundation of the integral
development of children and adolescents, and to offer its full support for a successful
outcome to the Congress.
2.
To reiterate the resolve of the states to intensify their efforts and interAmerican cooperation aimed at advancing policies to promote, protect, and publicize
the human rights of children.
3.
To recommend to the Permanent Council that, when it adopts the agenda
for the Nineteenth Pan American Child Congress, it take into consideration the items
proposed by the Organizing Committee, especially the child-family relationship, intrafamily violence and its impact on the development of children, current family law, and
the part played by the media in establishing a culture of respect for the rights of the
child.
4.
To take note of the report presented by the Inter-American Children’s
Institute on the fulfillment of resolution AG/RES. 1951 (XXXIII-O/03), contained in
document CP/doc.3848/04, and to request the OAS General Secretariat to prepare a
comprehensive report on the work of all the organs, agencies, and entities of the
Organization involved in protecting and promoting the human rights of children, which
shall include an evaluation of needs and perspectives, both institutional and related to
cooperation, to strengthen those efforts, and which shall be presented to the Permanent
Council for consideration.
5.
To request the Permanent Council to report to the General Assembly at
its thirty-fifth regular session on the implementation of this resolution and on the
outcome of the Nineteenth Pan American Child Congress.