This report has been elaborated by the Latin American and
Caribbean Demographic Center (CELADE)-Population Division of the Economic
Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), at the request of the
Forum of the Presidents of Legislative Powers of Central America and the
Caribbean Basin (FOPREL) and the Population, Development and Municipalities
Commission of the Nicaraguan Legislative Assembly, with the aim of serving as
background for the development of works in the I Interparliamentary Encounter on
Older Personas as Rights-Holders, to take place on 9 September 2011 in Managua,
Nicaragua.
As a result of this meeting, the parliamentarians of the
Inter-parliamentary Commission on Social Cohesion and the Fight against Poverty
of FOPREL adopted the resolution on the legislative harmonization on the issue
of older persons in which they agree to proceed with the design and creation of
a proposal for a regional framework law on the issue of older persons, to be
submitted for consideration to the Member Presidents of FOPREL, with the purpose
of serving as a reference for the harmonization, modernization, and approval of
the pertinent national legislations.
