IMPLEMENTATION OF THE INTER-AMERICAN PROGRAM ON
THE PROMOTION OF WOMEN’S HUMAN RIGHTS AND GENDER EQUITY AND EQUALITY
(Adopted at the fourth plenary session held on June
4, 2002)
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
BEARING IN MIND the mandates contained in
resolution AG/RES. 1732 (XXX-O/00), “Adoption and Implementation of the
Inter-American Program on the Promotion of Women’s Human Rights and Gender
Equity and Equality";
RECALLING resolution AG/RES. 1777 (XXXI-O/01),
“Implementation of the Inter-American Program on the Promotion of
Women’s Human Rights and Gender Equity and Equality,” whereby the
General Assembly received the first report of the Secretary General on
implementation of the Program;
RECALLING
ALSO resolution AG/RES. 1741 (XXX-O/00), “Integrating a Gender Perspective
in the Summits of the Americas,” which recommended that the Meetings of
Ministers or of the Highest-Ranking Authorities Responsible for the
Advancement of Women in the Member States be held every four years, and that
they take the Inter-American Program into account and contribute to the
preparatory and follow-up activities of the Summits of the Americas;
CONSIDERING that the Inter-American Program on the
Promotion of Women’s Human Rights and Gender Equity and Equality has as
objectives the integration of a gender perspective as a decisive strategy
for implementing the Program and achievement of the ultimate goal, namely,
the promotion and protection of women’s human rights and gender equity and
equality;
REAFFIRMING the commitment undertaken at the
highest level in the Plan of Action of the Third Summit of the Americas,
section 15 of which expresses support for this Program;
EMPHASIZING that the adoption of the Inter-American
Program reaffirmed the states’ commitment to combat all forms of
discrimination and to promote equal rights and opportunity for women and
men, with a gender perspective, which will require the ongoing participation
of the OAS and, in particular, of the CIM, as the principal forum for
generating hemispheric policy on gender equity and equality, as well as
cooperation between the OAS and the different regional and subregional
agencies and entities;
WELCOMING the establishment of the ad hoc inter-Institutional Forum
on Gender Equality,
RESOLVES:
1.
To receive with satisfaction the second report on the implementation
and promotion of the Inter-American Program on the Promotion of Women’s
Human Rights and Gender Equity and Equality, in fulfillment of resolution
AG/RES. 1732 (XXX-O/00)].
2.
To reaffirm the governments’ commitment to integrate a gender
perspective into their national programs and policies.
3.
To welcome the support received from the Secretary General and urge
him to continue his efforts to implement the objectives of the
Inter-American Program and promote the integration of a gender perspective
into the Organization’s activities, policies, programs, projects, and
agendas.
4.
To instruct the Secretary General and the Permanent Council:
a.
To continue allocating to the Inter-American Commission of Women, in
the program-budget for 2003, the human and financial resources it needs to
act as an organ for follow-up, coordination, and evaluation of the
Inter-American Program and of actions taken to implement that Program,
bearing in mind the other priorities of the Organization; and
b.
In the 2003 budget, under Subprogram 10W OAS Conferences to assign
the funds needed to hold meetings to follow up on the Program, including of
the ad hoc inter-Institutional Forum on Gender Equality;
c.
To take into account, in the budget to be approved in 2004, the
second Meeting of Ministers or of the Highest-Ranking Authorities
Responsible for the Advancement of Women in the Member States, which should
be convened in April 2004.
5.
To request the Secretary General to instruct the OAS organs,
agencies, and entities, through the appropriate channels, to include in
their reports to the General Assembly a detailed account of the measures
taken to implement the Inter-American Program and to mainstream the gender
perspective into the programs, projects, and activities carried out.
6.
To request the Secretary General to report to the thirty-third
regular session of the General Assembly on the implementation of this
program by the organs and agencies of the inter-American system.
