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.
IACHR EXPRESSES CONCERN OVER THE SITUATION OF YVON NEPTUNE
May 6, 2005
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) wishes to express its grave concern over the health and legal status of former Prime Minister Mr. Yvon Neptune in the Republic of Haiti. Over the past several months, the Commission has followed with concern the situation of Mr. Neptune, based upon information indicating that the former Prime Minister has been detained since June of 2004, apparently without having been charged or brought before a judge to determine the legality of his arrest and detention. The Commission also understands that Mr. Neptune has undertaken a hunger strike to protest the lack of due process in his circumstances. In light of these concerns, the Commission sent three separate communications to the Haitian State in March and April 2005 requesting information about Mr. Neptune’s status, including his measures of security and condition of health. As of the present date, the Commission has not received a response from the government of Haiti to its requests for information. In addition, on April 19, 2005 the Commission received an individual petition filed on Mr. Neptune’s behalf alleging violations of his rights under the American Convention, which the Commission has since transmitted to the State for a response.
As the Commission has noted on previous occasions, Mr. Neptune’s situation is part of a broader and longstanding problem in Haiti of the prolonged detention of individuals without charge or trial. During its recent visit to Haiti in April 2005, for example, the Commission visited the National Penitentiary and discovered that of the 1,054 inmates in the prison only 9 were convicted of any crime. In this respect, the Commission has emphasized the State’s obligation to end impunity for all human rights abuses through demonstrably fair and effective procedures that conform to international standards, as well as its obligation to ensure to all persons within its jurisdiction the right to physical integrity, liberty and the right to a fair trial as enshrined under Articles 5, 7 and 8 of the American Convention.
Accordingly, the Commission calls upon the Haitian State to take the urgent measures necessary to guarantee the right to life, physical integrity and access to effective judicial protection and guarantees of Mr. Neptune.