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 RAPPORTEURSHIP APPLAUDS APPROVAL OF
UN DECLARATION ON RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
September 18, 2007
Washington, D.C., September 18, 2007 — The Rapporteurship on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), applauds the approval of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by the UN General Assembly on September 13, 2007.
It took more than 20 years of negotiations to finally approve an international instrument on the rights of indigenous peoples. The United Nations Declaration recognizes “the urgent need to respect and promote the inherent rights of indigenous peoples which derive from their political, economic and social structures and from their cultures, spiritual traditions, histories and philosophies, especially their rights to their lands, territories and resources.”
Paolo Carozza, the IACHR Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, believes that the UN Declaration should constitute the minimum standard in the considerations of the Working Group charged with preparing the Draft American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples within the Organization of American States (OAS), a process that began in 1989.
The IACHR Rapporteurship hopes that the recently approved UN Declaration will facilitate the prompt approval of the OAS Declaration so that the rights of indigenous peoples of the Americas can be recognized and protected.
Press contact: María Isabel Rivero
Tel. (202) 458-3867
Cell: (202 215-4142
E-mail: [email protected].
Commission’s Website: www.iachr.org
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