XIX PAN AMERICAN CHILD CONGRESS

 

Exhibition of 150 pictures of Children, Adolescents and Families in the Americas   Exhibition of posters on Children’s Rights: “my family, your family, the family…”	HRS	October 27		October 28			October 29	Exhibition of postcards and drawings by children in the Americas
	8:00 10:00						Delegates’ Plenary Session
	9:00 9:45	Opening Session Ms. Marta Sahagún de Fox
	9:45 10:00	Break
	10:00 11:00	Plenary Session “The Family as the Institution with Primary Responsibility for Protection, Upbringing and Integral Development of the Child ”  Norberto Liwski		Plenary Session “Children’s Rights and Their Relations to the Different Types of Families” David Calderón			Plenary Session “Family Violence and Its Impact on Child Development” Cecilia Pérez Díaz
	11:00 11:15	Questions and Answers
	11:15 11:35	Break
	11:35 12:35	Plenary Session “Evolution of the Child’s Relationship with the Family ”  Bernardo Kliksberg		Plenary Session “The Doctrine of Integral Protection and Current Family Law” Daniel O’Donnell			Plenary Session “Promoting a Culture of Respect for Children’s Rights:  The Roles of the Family, the State, Civil Society, and the Media” Ana Teresa León
	12:35 12:50	Questions and answers
	12:30 13:30						Closing Session Mr. Vicente Fox Quesada President of Mexico
	12:50 14:00	Lunch
	13:30 15:30						Lunch
	14:00 15:45	Three Working Groups (*)			Three Working Groups (*)
	15:45 16:00	Break	Institutional Presentations		Break	Institutional Presentations
	16:00 18:00	Delegates’ Plenary Session			Delegates’ Plenary Session

	Exhibitions of the XIX Pan American Congress
	Participation of Delegates and Congress attendants
	Participation of Governmental Delegates of the OAS

-          The Family as the Institution with Primary Responsibility for the Protection, Upbringing and Integral Development of Children and Adolescents

-          The Doctrine of Integral Protection and Current Family Law.  

 Moderator:  Jorge Valladares

Group 2 - it will address the following issues:

-          Evolution of the Child’s Relationship with the Family.

-          Children’s Rights and their Relationship to the Different Types of Families.    

Moderator:  Ruben Katztman

Group 3 - it will address the following issues:

-          Family Violence and its Impact on Child Development.

-          Promoting a Culture of Respect for Children’s Rights: The Roles of the Family, the State, Civil Society, and the Media.  

Moderator:  Ana Teresa León

** The XIX Pan American Child Congress is made up of four formal operative areas. 

1. Master Conferences (six). There will be a senior-level speaker for each of the sub-themes of the Congress, who will address the Congress Plenary Session on the corresponding subject.
2. The Plenary Sessions for the Official Delegates, where the member countries of the Inter-American System, through their delegates, will analyze and debate the central theme of the Pan American Child Congress, based on the Order of Business and Rules of Procedure approved by the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States.
   Using the Guide that has been distributed, each of the Official Delegates may make a presentation (Country Report) at the Preliminary Session of the XIX Pan American Child Congress, which will be the 79^th Meeting of the Directing Council of the IIN   that will take place on October 25 and 26, 2004.
3. Working Groups. Each of the three working groups will meet on October 27 and 28 for one hour and forty-five minutes. There, they will present the work selected within the guidelines contained in the “Terms and Conditions for Presentations.” Each presenter will have ten minutes to make his or her presentation, which will be followed by a further ten minutes for debate. The presentations will be made in the order of priority determined by the Selection Committee.
4. Institutional Presentations. On October 27 and 28, from 3:45 to 6:00 p.m., while the Plenary for the Delegates is being held, there will also be a session for presentations (multimedia, video, DVD, PowerPoint, etc.) on the subjects addressed by the Congress. These presentations must be submitted to the Congress coordinators. In order to guarantee their order, we recommend that they be submitted prior to the beginning of the Congress.

All material presented at the Congress, in each area, will be part of the Final Report of the XIX Pan American Child Congress, which will also contain the resolutions and declarations which result from the meeting.

The Plenary Sessions for the Official Delegates, where the member countries of the Inter-American System, through their delegates, will analyze and debate the central theme of the Pan American Child Congress, based on the Order of Business and Rules of Procedure approved by the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States.
Using the Guide that has been distributed, each of the Official Delegates may make a presentation (Country Report) at the Preliminary Session of the XIX Pan American Child Congress, which will be the 79^th Meeting of the Directing Council of the IIN.