Each year the OAS Secretary General publishes a proposed Program-Budget for the coming calendar year. The OAS General Assembly meets in a Special Session to approve the Program-Budget. Find these documents from 1998-2013 here.
Each year in April, the OAS Board of External Auditors publishes a report covering the previous calendar year’s financial results. Reports covering 1996-2016 may be found here.
Approximately six weeks after the end of each semester, the OAS publishes a Semiannual Management and Performance Report, which since 2013 includes reporting on programmatic results. The full texts may be found here.
Here you will find data on the Human Resources of the OAS, including its organizational structure, each organizational unit’s staffing, vacant posts, and performance contracts.
The OAS executes a variety of projects funded by donors. Evaluation reports are commissioned by donors. Reports of these evaluations may be found here.
The Inspector General provides the Secretary General with reports on the audits, investigations, and inspections conducted. These reports are made available to the Permanent Council. More information may be found here.
The OAS has discussed for several years the real estate issue, the funding required for maintenance and repairs, as well as the deferred maintenance of its historic buildings. The General Secretariat has provided a series of options for funding it. The most recent document, reflecting the current status of the Strategy, is CP/CAAP-3211/13 rev. 4.
Here you will find information related to the GS/OAS Procurement Operations, including a list of procurement notices for formal bids, links to the performance contract and travel control measure reports, the applicable procurement rules and regulations, and the training and qualifications of its staff.
The OAS Treasurer certifies the financial statements of all funds managed or administered by the GS/OAS. Here you will find the latest general purpose financial reports for the main OAS funds, as well as OAS Quarterly Financial Reports (QFRs).
Every year the GS/OAS publishes the annual operating plans for all areas of the Organization, used to aid in the formulation of the annual budget and as a way to provide follow-up on institutional mandates.
Here you will find information related to the OAS Strategic Plan 2016-2020, including its design, preparation and approval.
RAPPORTEUR FOR FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION CONCERNED
OVER CENSORSHIP OF TELEVISION PROGRAM IN CHILE
July 29, 2003
The Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the OAS Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), Dr. Eduardo Bertoni, has expressed serious concern over recent instances of prior censorship against the television news magazine "Enigma" of National Television (TVN) in Chile.
According to information received, on July 23, 2003, the Fifth Division of the Court of Appeals of Santiago prevented the broadcast of the first episode of the program "Enigma" by means of an order to maintain the status quo (orden de no innovar). The censored program concerned the assassination of lawyer Patricio Torres Reyes. Members of the Torres Reyes family filed a protection remedy (recurso de protección) against the media, considering that the broadcast of the program would affect their honor and privacy. The order to maintain the status quo will have the effect of preventing the broadcast of the program until the Court resolves the issue of the protection remedy.
Prior censorship is explicitly prohibited under Article 13 of the American Convention on Human Rights. In addition, Principle 5 of the Inter-American Declaration of Principles on Freedom of Expression states, in part: "Prior censorship, direct or indirect interference in or pressure exerted upon any expression, opinion or information transmitted through any means of oral, written, artistic, visual or electronic communication must be prohibited by law."
The IACHR Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression, Eduardo Bertoni, requests the Chilean authorities to end the censorship of this program. "At the end of my visit to Chile in December 2002, I expressed my concern regarding certain judicial decisions that harmed freedom of expression in that country. The decision of the 5th Division renews my concern, since only the free exchange of ideas and opinions can build a truly participatory and pluralist democracy."
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