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.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) condemns the killing in Venezuela of Oscar Barrios, beneficiary of provisional measures ordered by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IA Court HR)
Oscar Barrios, 22 years old, was killed on November 28, 2009, the fifth member of this family to be killed, according to the information received, by police officers of the Aragua State.
The first precautionary measures to protect members of the Barrios family were granted by the IACHR on June 22, 2004, after receiving information on the killing of two members of this family, allegedly by policemen. Three months later, another family member was killed, and the IACHR requested provisional measures to the IA Court HR. The Court’s protection measures were in force when Rigoberto Barrios, 15 years old, was killed on January 9, 2005. From that date, the members of the family continued to be targets for detention, raids, threats and harassment, and on November 28, 2009, Oscar Barrios was killed.
The Inter-American Commission views as extremely serious that the State of Venezuela had not adopted the necessary measures to protect the life and integrity of Oscar Barrios, taking into consideration the previous killings of other family members, the threats and harassment he was submitted to, and the protective measures ordered by the Inter-American Court.
The IACHR reminds that it is the obligation of the State to investigate on its own initiative events of this nature and to sanction those responsible. Moreover, the IACHR urges the Venezuelan authorities to immediately adopt all necessary measures to guarantee the right to life, integrity and security of this family.
A principal, autonomous body of the Organization of American States (OAS), the IACHR derives its mandate from the OAS Charter and the American Convention on Human Rights. The Inter-American Commission has the mandate to promote respect for human rights in the region and acts as a consultative body to the OAS in this matter. The Commission is composed of seven independent members who act in a personal capacity, without representing a particular country, and who are elected by the OAS General Assembly.
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