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.
COLOMBIA RATIFIES OAS TREATY ON FORCED DISAPPEARANCE OF PERSONS
April 12, 2005
Colombia is the latest to ratify the Inter-American Convention against the Forced Disappearance of Persons. The ratification instruments were deposited at the Organization of American States (OAS) headquarters today, making Colombia the 11th state so far to ratify the OAS treaty that entered into force in 1996.
“Not for nothing forced disappearance is defined as a crime against humanity,” Colombia’s Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Camilo Reyes declared as he deposited the ratification documents with OAS Acting Secretary General Luigi R. Einaudi. He underscored prevention and punishment of the crime of forced disappearance as vital to the effective practice of human rights.
Reyes argued that by ratifying the OAS treaty, Colombia is now taking on a greater commitment to fighting this scourge, and will do so with a greater sense of purpose. He said a number of institutions have helped draw up a course of action on such matters as the quick search mechanism and registration of persons who have disappeared by force.
Commitments the states parties undertake through the convention include not practicing, permitting or tolerating practice of this crime—not even under a state of emergency or exception or where personal guarantees are suspended; cooperating among themselves to help prevent, punish and eradicate the forced disappearance of persons; and taking legislative, administrative and judicial steps to honor their commitments.
In commending the South American country, OAS Acting Secretary General Luigi Einaudi explained: “Colombia is committing to reporting as soon as possible on the whereabouts of persons presumed to have been forced into disappearance.” He went on to identify legal harmonization and cooperation as one of the real assets of inter-American system that seeks to build a more democratic society where the individual is respected.
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