The Department of Social Development and Employment is the Technical Secretariat of the Joint Working Group in charge of the drafting of the Social Charter of the Americas.

The resolution AG/RES 2056 (XXXIV-O/04) instructed the Permanent Council and the Permanent Executive Committee of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CEPCIDI) to jointly prepare a draft Social Charter of the Americas and a Plan of Action; which includes the principles of social development and establishes specific goals and targets that reinforce the existing instruments of the Organization of American States on democracy, integral development, and the fight against poverty.

The Joint Working Group of the Permanent Council and CEPCIDI started its activities on September 1 st, 2005. Since then, the Technical Secretariat has received various mandates to prepare supporting documents for drafting the Social Charter of the Americas.

The main purpose of this page is to support the Joint Working Group in its endeavors as well as to inform Member States , and all other interested organizations or persons on the progress of negotiation, the documents issued by the Working Group and all other relevant materials.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Social Charter of the Americas: renewal of the hemispheric commitment to fight extreme poverty in the region AG/RES. 2278 ( XXXVII-O/07)
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Report of Ambassador María del Luján Flores, Permanent Representative of Uruguay, in her capacity as chair of the Joint Working Group of the Permanent Council and CEPCIDI on the Draft of Social Charter of the Americas, for the period from March 1 to August 30,2007.
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Proposed methodology presented by Ambassador Denis G. Antoine Chairman of the Joint Working Group of the Permanent Council and CEPCIDI on the Drafting of the Social Charter of the Americas.