INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION: Children's rights advocate elected Commissioner

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Children's rights in the Americas received a huge boost this week as Rosa Maria Ortiz, a former member of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child from Paraguay, was elected as a Commissioner of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) by the General Assembly of the Organisation of American States.

The term of the Commission's current Rapporteur on Children's Rights, Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, is due to end in December 2011. Thematic rapporteurships are distributed by the Commission internally at the body's first session of the year, however, it is hoped that with Rosa Maria Ortiz' strong credentials in children's rights, her presence on the Commission will be invaluable to advancing children's rights in the region.

For the first time in history, women now form a majority among the Commissioners.

Read more from Save the Children's regional office [in Spanish]
Read about the appointment process of rapporteurs in article 15 of the Commission's Rules of Procedure.

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