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.
Statement from the OAS General Secretariat on the Exercise of Political Rights by Persons Elected by the People
June 1, 2023
Within the framework of the Secretary General's visit to Colombia, the General Secretariat of the Organization of American States (OAS) highlights that in line with current international regulations, embodied in international human rights treaties, and especially in the American Convention on Human Rights, as well as the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, it follows that the constitutional mandates of elected authorities can only be interrupted based on the sentences of criminal judges.
The jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (CorteIDH) reflects what is established in Article 23 of the Convention, which establishes parameters for the exercise of political rights.
The jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court also affirms that the materialization of political rights strengthens the rule of law in the Hemisphere.
Accordingly, it is essential that all those State bodies that are not criminal judges, including administrative control bodies, refrain from carrying out acts that go against this principle, which constitutes the essence of the function of democracy and of the rule of law.
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