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Iajc/Default.Asp PERMANENT COUNCIL OEA/Ser.G CP/doc.4956/14 24 January 2014 Original: Spanish ANNUAL REPORT OF THE INTER-AMERICAN JURIDICAL COMMITTEE TO THE FORTY-FOURTH REGULAR SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES INTER-AMERICAN JURIDICAL COMMITTEE 83rd REGULAR SESSION OEA/Ser.Q August 5 to 9, 2013 CJI/doc.443/13 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 9 August 2013 Original: Spanish ANNUAL REPORT OF THE INTER-AMERICAN JURIDICAL COMMITTEE TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2013 General Secretariat Organization of the American States www.oas.org/cji [email protected] EXPLANATORY NOTE Until 1990, the OAS General Secretariat published the “Final Acts” and “Annual Reports of the Inter-American Juridical Committee” under the series classified as “Reports and Recommendations”. In 1997, the Department of International Law of the Secretariat for Legal Affairs began to publish those documents under the title “Annual Report of the Inter-American Juridical Committee to the General Assembly.” According to the “Classification Manual for the OAS official records series”, the Inter- American Juridical Committee is assigned the classification code OEA/Ser. Q, followed by CJI, to signify documents issued by this body (see attached lists of Resolutions and documents). TABLE OF CONTENTS Page EXPLANATORY NOTE .......................................................................................................... iii TABLE OF CONTENTS ............................................................................................................v RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY THE INTER-AMERICAN JURIDICAL COMMITTEE ............... vii DOCUMENTS INCLUDED IN THIS ANNUAL REPORT .............................................................. viii INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................1 CHAPTER I ............................................................................................................5 1. The Inter-American Juridical Committee: its origin, legal bases, structure and purposes......................................................................................................................... 7 2. Period Covered by the Annual Report of the Inter-American Juridical Committee....................8 CHAPTER II ..........................................................................................................13 THEMES UNDER CONSIDERATION................................................................................. 15 1.Sexual orientation, gender identity and expression.............................................................................16 2.International Humanitarian Law: Model legislation on protection of cultural property in the event of an armed conflict................................................................34 3. General guidelines for border integration ..........................................................................................56 4.Inter-American legal cooperation........................................................................................................71 5.Corporate Social responsibility in the field of human rights and the environment in the Americas...........................................................................................83 6. Electronic warehouse receipts for agricultural products ..................................................................104 7. Alternatives for regulating the use of narcotic psychotropic substances and preventing drug addiction.........................................................................................113 8. Guidelines for migration management in bilateral relations ............................................................113 9. Access to public information and protection of personal data .........................................................113 CHAPTER III ........................................................................................................115 OTHER ACTIVITIES ACTIVITIES CARRIED OUT BY THE INTER-AMERICAN JURIDICAL COMMITTEE DURING 2013 .................................117 A.Presentation of the Annual Report of the Inter-American Juridical Committee ..............................117 B.Course on International Law 129 C.Relations and Cooperation with other Inter-American bodies and with Similar Regional and Global Organizations......................................................................132 INDEXES ........................................................................................................135 ONOMASTIC INDEX ........................................................................................................137 SUBJECT INDEX ........................................................................................................139 v RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY THE INTER-AMERICAN JURIDICAL COMMITTEE Page CJI/RES. 196 (LXXXI-O/12) AGENDA FOR THE EIGHTY-SECOND REGULAR SESSION OF THE INTER-AMERICAN JURIDICAL COMMITTEE (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 11- 15, 2013) ..............................9 CJI/RES. 199 (LXXXII-O/13) DATE AND VENUE OF THE EIGHTY-THIRD REGULAR SESSION OF THE INTER-AMERICAN JURIDICAL COMMITTEE....................................................................................9 CJI/RES. 198 (LXXXII-O/13) AGENDA FOR THE EIGHTY-THIRD REGULAR SESSION OF THE INTER-AMERICAN JURIDICAL COMMITTEE (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from August 5-9, 2013)........................11 CJI/RES. 201 (LXXXIII-O/13) DATE AND VENUE OF THE EIGHTY-FOURTH REGULAR SESSION OF THE INTER-AMERICAN JURIDICAL COMMITTEE..................................................................................11 CJI/RES. 200 (LXXXIII-O/13) AGENDA FOR THE EIGHTY-FOURTH REGULAR SESSION OF THE INTER-AMERICAN JURIDICAL COMMITTEE (From March 10 to 14, 2014) .......................................................12 DOCUMENTS INCLUDED IN THIS ANNUAL REPORT Page CJI/doc.417/12 rev.2 corr.1 REPORT OF THE INTER-AMERICAN JURIDICAL COMMITTEE. SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER IDENTITY AND GENDER EXPRESSION....................................................................................20 CJI/doc.440/13 SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND GENDER IDENTITY AND EXPRESSION....................................................................................32 (presented by Dr. Freddy Castillo Castellanos) ......................................32 CJI/doc.403/12 rev.5 MODEL LEGISLATION ON PROTECTION OF CULTURAL PROPERTY IN THE EVENT OF ARMED CONFLICT (presented by Dr. Ana Elizabeth Villalta Vizcarra).................................41 CJI/doc.433/13 GUIDELINES FOR BILATERAL BORDER OR NEIGHBORING DISTRICT INTEGRATION AGREEMENTS (presented by Dr. José Luis Moreno Guerra) .........................................59 CJI/doc.428/13 rev.1 REPORT FROM THE INTER-AMERICAN JURIDICAL COMMITTEE.INTER-AMERICAN JUDICIAL COOPERATION ........73 CJI/doc.436/13 CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN THE FIELD OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE ENVIRONMENT IN THE AMERICAS (presented by Dr. Fabián Novak Talavera) ............................................85 CJI/doc.427/13 ELECTRONIC WAREHOUSE RECEIPTS FOR AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS (presented by Dr. David P. Stewart)....................................................105 CJI/doc.437/13 PROPOSED PRINCIPLES FOR ELECTRONIC WAREHOUSE RECEIPTS (presented by Dr. David P. Stewart)....................................................110 CJI/doc.432/13 PRESENTATION OF THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE INTER- AMERICAN JURIDICAL COMMITTEE FOR THE YEAR 2012 TO THE COMMITTEE ON JURIDICAL AND POLITICAL AFFAIRS OF THE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES (presented by Dr. David P. Stewart)....................................................118 CJI/doc.434/13 2012 REPORT ON THE WORK AND ACTIVITIES OF THE INTER- AMERICAN JURIDICAL COMMITTEE (presented by Dr. João Clemente Baena Soares) ..................................123 CJI/doc.435/13 REPORT OF THE INTER-AMERICAN JURIDICAL COMMITTEE TO THE INTERNATIONAL LAW COMMISSION OF THE UNITED NATIONS (presented by Dr. Miguel A. Pichardo Olivier).....................................126 * * * INTRODUCTION 3 The Inter-American Juridical Committee is honored to submit to the General Assembly of the Organization of American States its Annual Report on the activities carried out during the year 2013, in accordance with the terms of Article 91.f of the Charter of the Organization of American States and Article 13 of its Statutes, and with the instructions contained in General Assembly Resolutions AG/RES. 1452 (XXVII-O/97), AG/RES. 1586 (XXVIII-O/98), AG/RES. 1669 (XXIX-O/99), AG/RES. 1735 (XXX-O/00), AG/RES. 1839 (XXXI-O/01), AG/RES. 1787 (XXXI-O/01), AG/RES. 1853 (XXXII-O/02), AG/RES. 1883 (XXXII-O/02), AG/RES. 1909 (XXXII-O/02), AG/RES. 1952 (XXXIII-O/03), AG/RES. 1974 (XXXIII-O/03), AG/RES. 2025 (XXXIV-O/04), AG/RES. 2042 (XXXIV-O/04), AG/RES. 2136 (XXXV-O/05), AG/RES. 2197 (XXXVI-O/06), AG/RES. 2484 (XXXIX-O/09), and CP/RES. 847 (1373/03), dealing with the preparation of annual reports to the General Assembly by the organs, agencies, and entities of the Organization. In 2013, the Inter-American Juridical Committee held two sessions. The first, its Eighty-Second Regular Session, took place from March 11 to 14; the second, Eighty-Third Regular Session, from August 5 to 9. Both were held at the Committee’s headquarters in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. During this year, the Committee adopted three reports, two of which give effect to General Assembly requirements, “Sexual orientation, gender identity and expression” (CJI/doc.417/12 rev. 2 corr. 1); and “Protection of cultural
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