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OAS Assistant Secretary General Albert Ramdin meets with U.S. Congressman James Oberstar

Date: March 31, 2008
Place: Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza meets with José Octavio Bordón, Chief of the OAS Electoral Observation Mission in Dominican Republic  

Date: March 28, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
Protocolary Meeting of the OAS Permanent Council to receive Haiti's Prime Minister, Jacques Edouard Alexis

Date: March 28, 2008
Place: Hall of the Americas, OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza participates in events commemorating the 66th anniversary of the Inter-American Defense Board

Date: March 28, 2008
Place: Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza speaks at a conference at the Georgetown University School of Law

Date: March 27, 2008
Place: Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza meets with the President of the Andean Development Corporation, Enrique García

Date: March 27, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
Top OAS authorities attend the swearing-in of the new Permanent Representative of the United States to the Organization, Ambassador Hector Morales

Date: March 27, 2008
Place: U.S. Department of State - Washington DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
OAS Secretay General José Miguel Insulza speaks at the Inter-American Dialogue on the Ecuador-Colombia situation

Date: March 27, 2008
Place: Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
Thirty Fifth Special Session of the OAS General Assembly  

Date: March 26, 2008
Place: Liberator Simón Bolívar Room, OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
Joint Meeting of the Permanent Council and the Permanent Executive Committee of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CEPCIDI)

Date: March 26, 2008
Place: Liberator Simón Bolívar Room, OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
Former Vice President of Guatemala, Eduardo Stein, headlines OAS conference in the Lecture Series of the Americas

Date: March 25, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza meets with the former Vice President of Guatemala, Eduardo Stein

Date: March 25, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza meets with the Prime Minister of Barbados, David Thompson

Date: March 20, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
The new Permanent Representative of the Jamaica to the OAS, Ambassador Anthony Smith Rowe Johnson, presents credentials to Secretary General José Miguel Insulza

Date: March 20, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza meets with the Prime Minister of Belize, Dean O. Barrow

Date: March 20, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza meets with the Permanent Observer of Norway, Ambassador Wegger Chr. Strommen

Date: March 20, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza meets with the Prime Minister of Bahamas, Hubert Alexander Ingraham

Date: March 19, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza meets with the Permanent Representative of Guatemala, Ambassador Francisco Villagrán De León

Date: March 19, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza receives a delegation sent by the Government of the Dominican Republic

Date: March 18, 2008
Place: Liberator Simón Bolívar Room, OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
Plenary Session of the Twenty-Fifth Meeting of Consultation of Ministers of Foreign Affairs

Date: March 17, 2008
Place: Hall of the Americas, OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
Preliminary Session of the Twenty-Fifth Meeting of Consultation of Ministers of Foreign Affairs

Date: March 17, 2008
Place: Liberator Simón Bolívar Room, OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera, Patricia Leiva
Delegations participating in the Twenty-Fifth Meeting of Consultation of Ministers of Foreign Affairs arrive at the OAS

Date: March 17, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
Special Meeting of the Permanent Council on “Civil Society and Strengthening a Democratic Culture”

Date: March 14, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
The new Permanent Representative of the United States to the OAS, Ambassador Hector Morales, presents credentials to Secretary General José Miguel Insulza

Date: March 14, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza meets with the President of the Andean Parliament, Ivonne Baki

Date: March 13, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
OAS General Secretariat and Panama sign agreement for the installation of the Technical Secretariat of the Decade for the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities across the Americas

Date: March 13, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
Regular Meeting of the OAS Permanent Council

Date: March 12, 2008
Place: Liberator Simón Bolívar Room, OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza, and other members of the Commission created to bring Ecuador and Colombia closer together, meet with President Álvaro Uribe

Date: March 12, 2008
Place: Bogotá, Colombia
Photos: Cesar Carrion
OAS Assistant Secretary General, Albert Ramdin, meets with the President of the Andean Parliament, Ivonne Baki

Date: March 12, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
The Commission headed by OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza visits Colombia

Date: March 11, 2008
Place: Colombia
Photos: OEA
OAS Assistant Secretary General Albert Ramdin heads the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the Inter-American Commission of Women

Date: March 11, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
IACHR: Signing of document on captive communities in Bolivia  

Date: March 11, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
The Commission headed by OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza visits Angostura, at the border between Ecuador and Colombia

Date: March 10, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: OEA
IACHR, Hearings: "Cases 12.597 – Miguel Camba Campos and others (Judges of the Constitutional Tribunal) and 12.600 – Hugo Quintana Coello and others (Judges of the Supreme Court), Ecuador"

Date: March 10, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
IACHR, Hearings: "Human rights consequences of the grave environmental violations caused by mining activity in Honduras"

Date: March 10, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
IACHR, Hearings: "Case 12.405 – Vicente Grijalva Bueno, Ecuador"

Date: March 10, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
IACHR, Hearings: "Protected areas in indigenous territories in Guatemala"

Date: March 10, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
IACHR, Hearings: "Case 12.542 – Employees of “Fertilizantes de Centroamérica” (FERTICA, Central American Fertilizers), Costa Rica"  

Date: March 10, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
IACHR, Hearings: "Investigation, trial and punishment of those responsible for serious violations of human rights in the past and the present in Guatemala"

Date: March 10, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
IACHR, Hearings: "Petition 1345/05 – Professors of Chañaral, Chile"

Date: March 10, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
IACHR, Hearings: "Human rights situation of captive communities in Bolivia"

Date: March 10, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
IACHR, Hearings: "Situation of human rights defenders of the Mapuche People in Chile"

Date: March 10, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
IACHR, Hearings: "Indirect restrictions of freedom of expression in Brazil"

Date: March 10, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
IACHR, Hearings: "Obstacles in Argentina to compliance with the reports, decisions and recommendations of the bodies for the protection of human rights in the Inter-American system"

Date: March 10, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
The Commission headed by OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza visits Angostura, at the border between Ecuador and Colombia

Date: March 10, 2008
Place: Ecuador, Quito
Photos: Diario El Comercio
Hemispheric Forum with Civil Society

Date: March 10, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza, and other members of the Commission created to bring Ecuador and Colombia closer together, meet with President Rafael Correa

Date: March 9, 2008
Place: Quito Ecuador
Photos: Presidencia del Ecuador
IACHR, Hearings: "Situation of prisons in the Americas"

Date: March 7, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
IACHR, Hearings: "Human Rights violations in prisons in Panama"

Date: March 7, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
IACHR, Hearings: "Use of lethal force by the police in Jamaica"

Date: March 7, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
IACHR, Hearings: "Case 12.459 – Lysias Fleury, Haití"

Date: March 7, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
IACHR, Hearings: "General human rights situation in Venezuela" 

Date: March 7, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
IACHR, Hearings: "Situation of child trafficking and violence against women in Haiti (border zone)"

Date: March 7, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
Regular Meeting of the OAS Permanent Council

Date: March 7, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
IACHR, Hearings: "Prevention of torture in Latin America"

Date: March 7, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
IACHR, Hearings: "Women’s access to justice administration systems in the Americas"

Date: March 7, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
IACHR, Hearings: "Case 12.644 – José Medellín Rojas (MC 317/06), Rubén Ramírez Cárdenas (MC 328/06) and Humberto Leal García (MC 349/06)"

Date: March 7, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
IACHR, Hearings: "Situation of Discrimination of Afro-descendents in Labor, Education and Access to Justice in the Americas"

Date: March 7, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
IACHR, Hearings: "Victims of anti-immigrant activities and violence in southern Arizona, United States

Date: March 7, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
The Defense Minister of Peru, Antero Flores-Araoz, makes a donation from the Editorial Fund of the Peruvian Congress to the OAS Columbus Library

Date: March 6, 2008
Place: OAS Columbus Library - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
Inaugural Meeting of the 131 Regular Session of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

Date: March 5, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza meets with the Inter-Parliamentary Union Secretary General, Anders B. Johnsson

Date: March 5, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza meets with the Executive Director of the United Naciones Counter Terrorism Comittee, Mike Smith

Date: March 5, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
Eighth Regular Session of Inter-American Committee against Terrorism  

Date: March 5, 2008
Place: Liberator Simón Bolívar Room, OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
Special Meeting of the OAS Permanent Council

Date: March 5, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
Communiqués de presse | Discours | Vidéo | Documents
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza meets with Minister of National Security of Trinidad and Tobago, Martin Joseph

Date: March 4, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
Sesión extraordinaria del Consejo Permanente de la OEA

Date: March 4, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
Communiqués de presse | Discours | Vidéo | Documents
The OAS and the Supreme Electoral Tribunal of El Salvador sign an agreement of cooperation

Date: March 4, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA
OAS Permanent Council receives the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bolivia, David Choquehuanca Céspedes

Date: March 4, 2008
Place: Liberator Simón Bolívar Room, OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza meets with the Secretary General of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization, Francisco José Ruiz Marmolejo

Date: March 4, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza meets with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bolivia, David Choquehuanca Céspedes

Date: March 4, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza participates at the Meeting on Renewable Energy - Electricity and Biofuels - in Latina America and the Caribbean

Date: March 3, 2008
Place: U.S. Department of State
Photos: U.S. Department of State
OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza, briefs a group of journalists from Latin America  

Date: March 3, 2008
Place: OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Patricia Leiva
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza inaugurates the Inter-American Meeting of National Authorities and Experts on Energy for Sustainable Development in the Americas

Date: March 3, 2008
Place: Liberator Simón Bolívar Room, OAS Building - Washington, DC
Photos: Juan Manuel Herrera - OEA