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.
Uruguay is the First Country to Ratify Before the OAS the Inter-American Convention against All Forms of Discrimination and Intolerance
May 11, 2018
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Uruguay today deposited at the headquarters of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Washington DC, the instrument of ratification of the Inter-American Convention against all Forms of Discrimination and Intolerance, becoming the first state to ratify it. The South American country is also the only one that has ratified all the binding legal instruments of the inter-American system.
The Permanent Representative of Uruguay to the OAS, Hugo Cayrús, highlighted the resolve of his country in the defense and promotion of human rights. "This act reaffirms Uruguay's commitment against all forms of discrimination and intolerance, and to the principle of equality."
For his part, the Secretary General of the OAS, Luis Almagro, congratulated "the government and the people of Uruguay for this new commitment to the Inter-American system for the protection and promotion of human rights." "We celebrate the deposit of Uruguay's instrument of ratification of the Convention, and we call on member states to join this initiative that promotes more rights for more people," added Almagro.
The Inter-American Convention against all forms of intolerance and discrimination has been signed by the following ten States: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Haiti, Panama, Peru and Uruguay. To be effective, it must be ratified by a second State, in addition to Uruguay.