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.
URGENT OAS APPEAL TO END THE RECRUITMENT OF CHILDREN
IN THE ARMED CONFLICT IN COLOMBIA
November 19, 2003
Today, at the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Vivanco, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, issued an appeal to the parties in conflict in Colombia to demobilize children under 18 from the troops so that they may be handed over to national and international humanitarian organizations for their well-being and safety.
Vivanco presented the report “You’ll Learn Not to Cry” to the Permanent Council of the OAS, at the invitation of the Ambassador of Colombia to the OAS, Horacio Serpa. The study emerged from an in-depth investigation with actual testimony that reflected the situation of 11,000 children. These children are recruited primarily by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the Army of National Liberation (ELN), and the paramilitary group United Self-Defense Groups of Colombia (AUC).
As indicated in the report, “[a]t least one of every four irregular combatants in Colombia's civil war is under eighteen years old, which is in violation of the norms of international humanitarian law. These children, mostly from poor families, fight an adult war. Often, child combatants have only the barest understanding of its purpose.”
The Executive Director of Human Rights Watch added that “they fight against other children whose background is very similar to their own, and whose economic situation and future prospects are equally bleak. With much in common in civilian life, children become the bitterest of enemies in war.”
The study covers the recruitment of minors, their training, life in the ranks, their combat role, and the treatment they receive when they desert or are captured or rescued.
Ambassador Serpa thanked Vivanco for his report and said that that human rights organization “has had remarkable experience, has a deep understanding of the topic, and is exploring possible solutions to one of the most serious problems affecting our country.” He asserted that the report was clear, courageous, objective, and heartrending, and he indicated that “I am certain that when the world is familiar with the tragedy in Colombia–when it is learned about and understood–we Colombians will be much closer to finding a solution
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