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PERMANENT COUNCIL OF THE OEA/Ser.G ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES CAJP/GT/DI-11/07 rev. 2 4 December 2007 COMMITTEE ON JURIDICAL AND POLITICAL AFFAIRS Original: Spanish

Working Group to Prepare an Inter-American Program for Universal Civil Registry and the “Right to Identity”

MEETING TO RECEIVE INPUTS ON THE DRAFT INTER-AMERICAN PROGRAM FOR UNIVERSAL CIVIL REGISTRY AND THE “RIGHT TO IDENTITY”

Date: December 5, 2007 Place: Simón Bolívar Room

DRAFT AGENDA

9:00-9:30 a.m. Inaugural session - Chair of the Working Group, Minister Luis Javier Campuzano, Alternate Representative of Mexico to the OAS - Ambassador Roberto Álvarez, Chair of the Committee on Juridical and Political Affairs - Ambassador Alfonso Quiñonez, Executive Secretary, Executive Secretariat for Integral Development, OAS - Mariclaire Acosta, Executive Secretariat for Integral Development, OAS

9:30-10:00 a.m. First topic: Universalization and accessibility of civil registry and the right to identity - María de los Dolores Aguilar Marmolejo, General Director, Inter-American Children’s Institute - Dr. Dámaso Solís Peña, National Director, Civil Registry, Electoral Tribunal, Panama - Roxanna Altholz, Associate Director, International Human Rights Law Clinic, University of Berkeley, California

10:00-10:30 a.m. Exchange of views with the states - 2 -

10:30-11:00 a.m. Second topic : Strengthening of policies, public institutions, and legislation - Carlos Raúl Anaya Moreno, Director General, National Population and Personal Identification Registry (RENAPO), Mexico - Magistrate Roberto Rosario Márquez, President, Administrative Chamber, Central Board of Elections, Dominican Republic - Dr. Osvaldo Kreimer, Consultant, Executive Secretariat for Integral Development, OAS

11:00-11:30 a.m. Exchange of views with the states

11:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Third topic: Citizen participation and awareness - Dr. Nils Kastberg, Regional Director of UNICEF for Latin America and the Caribbean - Maureen Lynch, Senior Advocate on Stateless Initiatives, Refugees International - Félix Ortega, Coordinator, Project on Modernization of the Civil Registry and National Identification System in Haiti, SEDI/OAS

12:00-12:30 p.m. Exchange of views with the states

12:30-2:30 p.m. Lunch

2:30-3:00 p.m. Fourth topic : Identification of best practices - Dr. Julián Murcia, National Director, Civil Registry, National Civil Status Registry of Colombia - Xavier Comas, Chief, Institutional Capacity of the State Division, Inter-American Development Bank

3:30-4:00 p.m. Fifth topic : International and regional cooperation - Fernando Lezama, Coordinator, OAS Project in Honduras as a model for horizontal cooperation - Thomas Albrecht, Deputy Regional Representative, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

4:30-5:00 p.m. Conclusions: Minister Luis Javier Campuzano, Chair of the Working Group, and Mariclaire Acosta, Executive Secretariat for Integral Development

Procedure: - During each segment, consideration will be given to one of the five objectives of the Draft Inter-American Program for Civil Registry and the “Right to Identity.” - One hour will be spent on each topic. During that period, three guest panelists will speak, each of whom will be allotted seven minutes to make a presentation. - 3 -

- Following the panelists’ presentations, member states will be offered the floor for comments and questions. - Since time is limited, member states are asked to limit their remarks to three minutes. States will have to ask for the floor if they are interested in speaking, and the Chair will entertain comments until the end of the hour allotted for each segment. The objective is to have the broadest possible exchange of views during each of the sessions.

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