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.
SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR FOR FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION CONDEMNS
THE KIDNAPPING OF FOUR JOURNALISTS IN GUATEMALA
January 16, 2003
Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression condemns
the kidnapping of four journalists in Guatemala
Washington, D.C., October 27, 2003. The Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), Eduardo A. Bertoni, condemned the kidnapping of a group of civilians, among them four reporters of the newspaper Prensa Libre of Guatemala, by former members of the Civil Self-Defense Patrols (known by the Spanish acronym "ex PAC"), which occurred on Sunday, October 26 in Huehuetenango, in western Guatemala.
The Rapporteur exhorts the Guatemalan authorities to take all of the legitimate actions necessary to guarantee respect for the lives and the integrity of the hostages and calls for their immediate and unconditional release, as well as respect for their physical integrity at all times.
According to the information received by the Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression, the reporters held by the ex PAC are Fredy López, Alberto Ramírez, Emerson Díaz and Mario Linares.
As he has done repeatedly, the Rapporteur expressed his serious concern about the situation of journalists in Guatemala, who have been the objects of repeated threats and aggressions in the past year, solely because they carry out their duty of informing Guatemalan society. "The assassination, kidnapping, intimidation and threatening of social communicators violate the fundamental rights of persons and strongly restrict freedom of expression," stated Bertoni.
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