Alertamerica.org: The OAS Observatory on Citizen Security

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This must stop!

Our actions in the hemisphere

OAS Supports Firearms
Destruction in Central America
SMS/ OAS

The OAS has initiated a program to assist the Central American governments in the destruction of firearms as part of its efforts to reduce armed violence in the sub region. The first phase of a project to eliminate over ten thousand small arms in Guatemala concluded on December 7, with the destruction of 1,008 weapons.

Challenges of the XXI Century

Blackwell: "Transnational organized crime is everyone´s´ problem"
SMS / OAS

The Secretary for Multidimensional Security of the OAS, Adam Blackwell, said that international crime is "a problem of all operating" in the developed and developing countries, where poverty, inequality, social exclusion and political challenges governance are the causes and consequences of the problem. Ambassador Blackwell participated in the inauguration ceremony of the Third Meeting of the Working Group on Transnational Organized Crime, on 16 November in Trinidad and Tobago.

With the support of

Government of Canada
through its "Anti-Crime Capacity
Building Program" (ACCBP)

Government of Spain
through Ministerio de Asuntos
Exteriores y de Cooperación

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Evaluation of Progress in Drug Control Click here to download the PDF (3.7 Mb)	OAS presents study on citizen security in the Americas Click here to download the PDF (10 Mb)	Manual for National Observatories Spanish - PDF 5.3Mb English - PDF 4.8Mb	Violence Observatories: Best Practices (5.11 MB, Spanish)	Crime and Insecurity. Indicator for the Americas. FLACSO-BID (PDF, Spanish)	Policy Labs on Security and Citizenship ( 700 KB, Spanish) Also in Portuguese	Sexual Violence en Latin-American and the Caribbean. ( 501 K, Spanish)