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Migration at the OAS: Main aspects and features of their
evolution Summary for the Committee on
Migration Issues (CAM) December 13, 2012
OAS was pioneered developing the "Demographic and Legal Studies of International Migration" 1985-1995
ARGENTINA
BOLIVIA
COLOMBIA
COSTA RICA
CHILE
GUATEMALA
MEXICO
PANAMA
PARAGUAY
GUATEMALA
MEXICO
PERU
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
URUGUAY
VENEZUELA
Background 1996 - 2005
• In 1996 was created the Rapporteurship on the rights of migrants and their Families in the IACHR
• Over the years, the Commission has been following up on the main challenges facing by asylum seekers, refugees and persons in the need of complementary protection in human rights and international refugee law.
• It has done, among others, the following reports:
– Report on the Situation of Human Rights of Asylum Seekers in the Canadian System Framework Determining Refugee Status;
– Report in the Access to Justice and Social Inclusion: The Road towards Strengthening Democracy in Bolivia;
• Additionally, the Rapporteurship undertakes visits to OAS member status in order to monitor in situ the conditions of migrant workers and their families:
– United States (1998)– Canada (2000)– Guatemala (2003)– Mexico (2003)– Costa Rica (2003)
• Following a specific mandate advanced by the Heads of States and Government during the Third Summit of the Americas and a Specific Resolution by the OAS General Assembly (AG/RES. 1928 (XXXIII-O/03), the Special Rapporteurship actively participates in the discussion and preparation of an Inter-American Program for the Protection and Promotion of the Human Rights of Migrants.
Background 1996 - 2005
THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF ALL MIGRANT WORKERS AND THEIR FAMILIES
CP/CAJP-1802/01 - AG/RES. 1775 (XXXI-O/01)
RESOLVES:6. To request the Permanent Council, in accordance with the provisions of the chapter on
migration in the Plan of Action of the Third Summit of the Americas, to:a. Study the adoption of measures designed to strengthen cooperation among states to address, with
a comprehensive, objective, long-term approach, the manifestations, origins, and effects of migration in the region, as well as promote close cooperation among countries of origin, transit, and destination so as to ensure the protection of the human rights of migrants; and
b. Prepare an inter-American program for the promotion and protection of the human rights of migrants, with the assistance of the appropriate organs and agencies of the inter-American system and of the United Nations.
7. To invite the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and the Inter-American Agency for Cooperation and Development (IACD) to consider the advisability of adopting joint cooperation programs in this area, taking into account the work done by other organs, agencies, and entities, such as the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the International Labour Organization (ILO).
11. To recommend to the Inter-American Council for Integral Development that it support projects and activities on behalf of migrant workers and their families in the spirit of inter-American solidarity, which is a key factor in the integral development of member states.
Background 1996 - 2005
Entidades de la Secretaría General SEDI
Executive Secretariat for
Integral Development
SAPSecretariat for Political Affairs
IACHR Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Rapporteurship on the rights of migrants and
their Families
CIMInteramerican Commision of
Woman
SSMSecretariat for
Multidimensional Security
Human RightsHuman Rights
Voting AbroadVoting Abroad Smuggling and
trafficking in human being
Smuggling and trafficking
in human being Refugiesstateless
Internal displaced
Refugiesstateless
Internal displaced
Gender Equality and woman’srights
Gender Equality and woman’srights
Migration as transversal topic in the OAS
Labour migrationEducation
SocialsecurityInformation System
Labour migrationEducation
SocialsecurityInformation System
SAJSecretariat for Legal Affairs
Permanente Council
Permanente Council
General Assembly MandatesGeneral Assembly Mandates
Special Committe on Migration
2007-2012
Special Committe on Migration
2007-2012
Committee on the Judicial and
political affairsCAJP
.
Committee on the Judicial and
political affairsCAJP
.
IINInteramerican
Children’s Institute
Sexual and comercial Explotation/ Smuggling and trafficking of children and youths
Sexual and comercial Explotation/ Smuggling and trafficking of children and youths
Inter-American Council for Integral Development
Committee on Migration Issues
Committee on the Judicial and political affairs - CAJP
Committee on the Judicial and political affairs - CAJP
Programa Inter-Americano para la Promoción y Protección de los
Derechos Humanos de los Migrantes
Programa Inter-Americano para la Promoción y Protección de los
Derechos Humanos de los Migrantes
EL Programa se adopta por medio de su resolución AG/RES. 2141 (XXXV-O/05)
el día 7 de junio de 2005.
Its main objective is to promote the development of public policies, legislation and best practices for the protection of human rights of migrants.
The program also promotes cooperation measures and best practices by integrating concrete actions in the work of the organs,
agencies, and entities of the OAS, and by linking these activities with advances in Member States, organizations and civil society.
Committee on the Judicial and political affairs - CAJP
Inter-American Program for the Protection
of Human Rights of Migrant Workers
Inter-American Program for the Protection
of Human Rights of Migrant Workers
The program is adopted by resolution AG / RES. 2141 (XXXV-O/05)
on June 7, 2005.
• The program provides a range of activities, guidelines, and best practices to be observed by the OAS Member States, international organizations, and civil society in general.
• Instructed the Secretary General, in accordance with Article 113 of the OAS Charter, to develop a work plan which organize specific activities assigned to the organs, agencies and entities responsible.
• The Program established as a monitoring mechanism to ensure implementation of the presentation by the actors of the program, a report of the actions taken in the course of a year.
Background
Special Committe on Migration Issues- CEAM
BACKGROUND
• On May 2, 2007, the Permanent Council convened a special meeting to analyze and discuss human migration flows and their impact on Member States.
• On 24 October the same year, the Permanent Council established the Special Committee on Migration Issues.
PRESIDENCIES
2007 - 08 Uruguay
2008 - 09 Belice
2009 - 10 Haiti
2010 – 11 Paraguay
2011 - 2012 Honduras
Special Committe on Migration Issues Special Committe on Migration Issues
WORKSHOPS AND SPECIAL SESIONS
21 forums for discussion and analysis, seven special sessions and 3 workshops in the CEAM to analyze priority issues such as child and youth migration, migrant, human capital flight, consular protection, migration and natural disasters, migration extracontinental and the return of migrants to communities of origin, etc.
Memorias publicadas
• Aide-Memoire for the Workshop: “Extra-continental Migration in the Americas”
• Aide-Memoire for the Workshop: “Return of Migrants: Challenges and Opportunities”
• Learning from Experience: Bilateral Cooperation in Migration Management
SPECIAL COMMITTE ON MIGRATION ISSUES - CEAM
RESULTSMANDATES
I. Develop a database for the comprehensive analysis of migration flows
II. Develop a document compiling temporary worker programs in the member states of the OAS
III. Develop a database of regulations, policies and programs of migration and legal frameworks in the Member States of the OAS
Continuous Reporting System on International Migration -SICREMI
Interactive Map of Temporary Employment Programs for migrants workers- MINPET
Database on Migration Legislation in the Americas
MILEX
Results: Information system
Interactive Map of Temporary
Employment Programs for migrants workers-
MINPET
Continuous Reporting System on International
Migration –SICREMI
Database on Migration Legislation in the Americas MILEX
Projects implemented by the DSDE with other areas of the organization
Canadian Funds (2009-2011)
• Combating Trafficking in Persons (DPS SSM)
•Education for migrant children and youth (Department of Human Development, Education and Culture Office SEDI)
•Youth on the Move (Young American Business Trust)
•Attention to migrant women victims of violence in the border area of Tijuana, Mexico
Projects in execution
ILO Funds (2012-2013)
• Diagnostic information systems migration in the five participating countries emphasizing gender
• Protection of labor rights through consular action of Costa Rica, Haiti, Nicaragua, Panama and Dominican Republic
• Labor Migration Management in Haiti: sharing experiences on temporary labor migration Haiti - Jamaica and proposed development of management model of temporary migration for Haiti
Activities that executes and coordinates the DDSE
DDSE
Migration area
Recapitulation
• Migration has been addressed in the OAS since longstanding prevailing the technical approach, in line with comments made by Member States in the last resolution adopted in Cochabamba
• The issue within the organization is enhanced by the creation of the Inter-American Program for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights of Migrants through its resolution AG / RES. 2141 (XXXV-O/05) on June 7, 2005 which aims to promote the development of public policy, legislation and best practices for the protection of human rights of migrants.
• Two years later, in 2007, establishing the Special Committee on Migration Issues, whose purpose is the analysis and understanding of migration flows in the hemisphere.
• With the creation of the CAM, by resolution AG / RES. 2738 (XLII-O/12) the topic is institutionalized in the organization.
• Its main lines, among others, are: the comprehensive, balanced and technical, the importance of dialogue, the exchange of best practices and the implementation of cooperation initiatives, and the dignity of the image of migrants in their countries of residence image.
• "The CAM will provide a forum for the exchange of experiences and lessons learned in Member States on the effective management of migration flows, as well as identifying possible areas of cooperation" (Resolving 2.g).
• The SICREMI respond fully to these guidelines, consolidating instruments date information on migration in the hemisphere, that enables dialogue on empirical grounds.
Recapitulando
Second Report SICREMI