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.
UN AND OAS SPECIAL RAPPORTEURS ON FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
GRAVELY CONCERNED ABOUT SITUATION IN CUBA.
May 3, 2003
On the occasion of the international celebration of World Press Freedom Day, 3 May 2003, Ambeyi Ligabo, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression and Eduardo Bertoni, Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Organization of American States (OAS) express their profound regret and grave concern over the recent sentencing of approximately 80 Cuban dissidents by Cuban authorities.
According to the information received by the Special Rapporteurs, those detained since 18 March 2003 had been active in voicing their opposition to the Cuba Government’s policies, particularly regarding the right to freedom of opinion and expression and were engaged in the defense of human rights in the country. It was reported that the Cuban journalists, human rights defenders and political activists that were charged with working with a foreign power to undermine the Cuban Government, received sentences ranging from 6 to 28 years of imprisonment under the Law for the Protection of Cuban National Independence and the Economy and the Law Reaffirming Cuban Dignity and Sovereignty.
The Special Rapporteurs consider that these events constitute a severe erosion of the right to freedom of opinion and expression on the island.
In this context, the Special Rapporteurs exhort the Cuban authorities to respect and protect the inalienable right to freedom of opinion and expression, enshrined in Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Article 13 of the American Convention on Human Rights and call on the authorities to ensure the immediate release of all those condemned during the expedite proceedings which took place from 4-7 April 2003.
The mandate of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression was created by the UN Commission on Human rights in 1993.
The Office of the Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Organization of American States is a permanent office created by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the OAS. The Office of the Rapporteur arose from the Second Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Americas, which was held in Santiago, Chile, in April 1998.
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