Venezuela to Host OAS Meeting on Social Charter

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Venezuela to Host OAS Meeting on Social Charter

Friday, Aug 26, 2005

Caracas, Venezuela, August 26, 2005 —Venezuela is preparing for a meeting of ministers from countries of the Organization of American States (OAS), who are coming to Venezuela to discuss the Social Charter of the Americas. The Social Charter that Venezuela is proposing is a document with 129 articles that address social human rights relating to health, work, education, social protection, basic services, citizen participation, healthy environment, and rights of indigenous peoples. The Social Charter is meant to complement the existing OAS Democratic Charter, which guarantees political rights.

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Isturiz explained that the proposed charter has five sections, which are titled, “Fundamental Social Rights,” “Community Rights,” “Economic Rights,” “Cultural Rights,” and “Rights of Indigenous Peoples.” Isturiz said that another section will be proposed, which deals with the rights of Afro-descendant peoples in the Americas.

According to Isturiz, “The idea is to balance the democratic vision, exalting social, cultural, and economic rights, just as the political and civil rights that have until now been the only ones taken into consideration in the Inter-American Democratic Charter.”

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According to Jorge Valero, Venezuela’s Ambassador to the OAS, “The debate for the adoption of the Democratic Charter was a closed debate, elitist. We want that the debate about the Social Charter of the Americas is grassroots, that all life factors of the nations participate in the creation of this social instrument of the OAS.”

http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=1733

[bemildred]

1. Bolton isn't going to like this. nt

[burrowowl]

2. So Bolton or

Bu$hCo are going to boycott it? Watch out for black ops.

[wli]

3. the neocon delegate will wear a white hood for the occasion n/t

[DELUSIONAL]

4. Good one! I'm still laughing -- because it is so true.