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.
Desmond Tutu once said "If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor."
The boxer Archie Moore, referring to Muhammad Ali, also said, "He is a fighter who stands for something. He is a rights fighter also, like me. The man who stands neutral stands for nothing."
The beginning of this message is based on quotes from two people of African descent. That is very telling, because African descendants have struggled more than any other people against indifference and "neutrality" when faced with discrimination. The world of people of African descent has been the one that has had to face legal doctrines that justified discrimination and even slavery.
There is no room for so-called "neutrality", nor is it acceptable when it is based on ignoring repression, political prisoners, torture, hunger and the lack of separation of powers. This strange and convenient fiction cannot be called neutrality.
The more than 40 deaths that have taken place in Venezuela should never have happened. They are the tragic result of a regime that stubbornly refuses to recognize that the only viable solution to the crisis in the country are immediate general elections.
The Inter-American Community, along with the rest of the International Community will continue to insist that this is the only way to return democracy to the country.
The time has come to negotiate once and for all the return of democracy and to agree on the terms for its reestablishment.
It is time to build bridges; bridges between Venezuela and democracy, between the country and its constitution, between human rights and the Venezuelan people.
It's time for the regional community to help reach an agreement with the leaders of the regime for the reestablishment of the country's institutions and for the return of democracy to Venezuela. The previous dialogue failed because it didn´t take into account the need to return democracy to the country.
It will not be easy, but the principles of democracy and human rights will guide us and force us to continue working for the benefit of the people of Venezuela.
Because as Martin Luther King Jr. said, "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
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