LEGAL PROGRAM - PROJUR

• Promote national legislation among member States of the OAS based on the principles of the international norms on the rights of the child.
  
• Promote new inter-American norms specialized in childhood and family.

• Within the framework of the international norms, provide information services and human resources training to institutions in charge of children's legislation.
  
• Promote specialized studies in key topics that would lead to immediate action promoting the rights of children and family matters in the region.
  

Under the strategic guidelines of the Plan of Activities 2002-2004, approved by the Directing Council of the IIN, and trying to optimize resources with low cost/high impact strategies, the program will have the following components:

This component is further divided into the following projects:

• Project on compilation of national and inter-American norms. Juridical database (BADAJ).
• Project on comparative law studies.
• Project on harmonization and normative development (Prototype legislation on disabilities, child labor, sexual exploitation and drug abuse).
• Project on creation of new inter-American norms on the rights of the child.

This component will carry the following projects:

• Set up the Inter-American course on the rights of the child.
• Give other specialized inter-American courses
• Provide training courses on line

The projects for this component will be:

• Publication of reports on existing legislation and its practices.
• Publication of specialized reports on key topics, developed by the IIN (such as adoptions, children in conflict with the law, child trafficking, international abduction of minors, children in armed conflicts, children with HIV, etc.)
• Organizing the Ibero-American Essay Competition on family matters and the rights of the child.

The Juridical Program (PROJUR), promotes the ratification of regional treaties on children and adolescents among the 34 member States of the OAS. It also promotes the signing of agreements within the Specialized Inter-American Conferences on Private International Law (CIDIP), such as the United Nations International Conventions. Finally, it promotes the development of national norms adhering to those principles.