The Department of International Affairs is responsible for facilitating the participation of civil society in the Organization of American States. For more information, please contact:
Department of International Affairs
Organization of American States
1889 F Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20006
Telephone: 202-458-6072
Fax: 202-458-6319
civilsociety@oas.org
The Department of Public Security was created on 2006 to promote and strengthen integral, long-term public security policies that fully respect human rights.
The Department develops activities to combat organized crime, the illicit manufacturing and trafficking of firearms, ammunition, explosives and related materials, trafficking in persons and criminal gangs. It also promotes activities to improve penitentiary systems, humanitarian demining, police training, legislative assistance and information systems on crime and violence.
DPS acts as Executive Secretariat of the Meetings of Ministers of Public Security (MISPA) of the Hemisphere, the first meeting of which took place in October 2008 in Mexico City. (more information.
