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Upcoming activities

 

Electoral observation mission in Dominican Republic - Presidential elections, May 16, 2012 (To be confirmed)

• Recommendation on the dispatch of an electoral observation mission to Dominican Republic

 

Electoral observation mission in Mexico - General elections, July 1, 2012 (To be confirmed)

• Recommendation on the dispatch of an electoral observation mission to Mexico

 

Past activities

 

September 8, 2011 - Committee meeting - As part of the 11^th General Assembly of COPA, Quebec City, Canada

 

• Agenda
• Presentations:
  • "International Election Observation" - Mr. Jacques Drouin, Directeur général des élections du Québec (DGE)
  • "Gubernatorial Elections in the State of Mexico - Presentation of the Electoral Observation Mission (in spanish)" - Mrs. Zulma Gómez Cáceres, Senator, Congress of Paraguay
  • "Electoral Observation Mission - The Experience of OAS in Latin American and the Carribean" (in spanish) - Mr. Pablo Gutiérrez, Head of Department for Cooperation and Electoral Observation, Organization of American States (OAS)
• 2011-2012 Action Plan

 

September 6, 2011 - Workshop on Criteria for Parliamentary Democracy - As part of the 11^th General Assembly of COPA, Quebec City, Canada

 

• Agenda
• "The Contribution of Parliaments to Democracy: Benchmarks for the Parliaments of the Americas" - Adopted in plenary session, September 9, 2011, as part of the 11^th General Assembly of COPA, Quebec City, Canada
• Presentations:
  • "The Contributions of Parliaments to Democracy: Draft Benchmarks for the Parliaments of the Americas" (in french)- Mrs. Diane Sheinberg, United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
  • "International Consensus on Standards for Democratic Parliaments" - Mr. Andrew Mandelbaum, National Democratic Institute (NDI)

 

November 18, 2010 - Committee Meeting - As part of the 10^th General Assembly of COPA, Mar del Plata, Argentina

 

• Agenda
• Presentation:
  • "International Consensus on Standards for Democratic Parliaments" - Mr. Marc Hanson, National Democratic Institute (NDI)
• 2010-2011 Action Plan

 

June 21, 2010 - Committee Meeting - As part of the Extraordinary General Assembly of COPA, Querétaro, Mexico

 

• Agenda

 

September 17. 2009 - Committee Meeting - As part of the 9^th General Assembly of COPA, Salta, Argentina

 

• Agenda
• Comparative Data Grid on Political Party Financing in the Americas

 

 

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"The Contribution of Parliaments to Democracy: Benchmarks for the Parliaments of the Americas" - Adopted in plenary session, September 9, 2011, as part of the 11^th General Assembly of COPA,

Quebec City, Canada