May 10, 2012

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Summits of the Americas Secretariat

Summits of the Americas Secretariat

- In brief -

OAS

Government and Social Actor Dialogue

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…that more than 800 social actors met with Presidents Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia and Evo Morales of Bolivia and other high-level government officials in a dialogue held parallel to the Sixth Summit of the Americas in Colombia? The participants, representing civil society organizations, youth, indigenous peoples, and workers, proposed initiatives and identified joint actions for the implementation of Summit mandates. These included activities on disasters, poverty and inequality, security, infrastructure, and access to information technology. The recommendations of this inter-sectoral dialogue of governments represented the culmination of several months of consultation with civil society organizations and other social actors.


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III Summit of the Americas, Quebec City:

“We further support consideration by the OAS, other inter-American organizations and national governments, of ways in which civil society can contribute to the monitoring and implementation of Summit mandates...”

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