Original: Spanish AGREE TO, Approve this Brazil Declaration “A Framework for Cooperation and Regional Solidarity to Strengthen the International Protection of Refugees, Displaced and Stateless Persons in Latin America and the Caribbean” and the Plan of Action in annex. Promote and implement this Declaration and the Plan of Action in annex to respond to the new challenges in international protection and in the identification of solutions for refugees, displaced and stateless persons in Latin America and the Caribbean in the next 10 years. Congratulate the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean that acceded or ratified international instruments on refugees, displaced and stateless persons, and invite those countries that have not yet done so, to consider accession or ratification, as appropriate, to the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol, the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons, the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, as well as the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child, the 1984 Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, the 1990 International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families, the 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the 2000 United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its Protocols to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, and Against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air (Palermo Protocols), and other relevant instruments; and to foster the progressive development of the interpretation of these instruments. Deepen cooperation within the framework of regional integration mechanisms such as CELAC, MERCOSUR, the Andean Community, SICA and CARICOM, among others, in order to improve the analysis and understanding of displacement and address its causes; offer international protection to those persons in need; and continue moving towards the progressive harmonization of public policies, standards and procedures through the exchange of good practices for the protection of refugees, displaced and stateless persons. Continue strengthening national bodies for the determination of refugee status, for example through quality assurance mechanisms, such as the Quality Assurance Initiative (QAI), allocating greater human and financial resources, strengthening bilateral and regional cooperation and implementing regional training programmes, thereby ensuring the effective implementation of the principle of due process of law established in international and regional instruments, as well as in national legislations. Support the establishment of a regional dialogue in the Caribbean in order to adopt a strategy for institutional strengthening, which should envisage, among other things, a progressive approach for the development of asylum systems and the implementation of refugee status determination procedures, as appropriate. Continue making progress in the identification, prevention, effective protection and the implementation of differentiated referral and response mechanisms for victims of sexual and gender‐based violence, and in the development of specific programmes, within a rights‐based framework and a community‐based approach, that take into consideration the needs of groups and populations in a vulnerable situation. Highlight that victims or potential victims of trafficking may, in some circumstances, be in need of international protection and that their access to refugee status determination procedures must be guaranteed, stressing the importance of early identification because of their great vulnerability and recognizing the complementarity of asylum systems and mechanisms for the protection of victims of human trafficking. 4