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.
SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR FOR FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION CONDEMNS THE THREATS AND AGGRESSIONS AGAINST HAITIAN PRESS
October 31, 2003
Washington, D.C., October 30, 2003. The Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), Eduardo A. Bertoni, condemned the aggressions to which the Haitian press has been subject in the past weeks.
According to information received by the Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression, on Tuesday, October 28, unidentified individuals opened fire on the premises of Radio Caraïbes, in Port-au-Prince, while shouting slogans against the station. The following day, the station decided to suspend its transmissions in order to evaluate the situation and ensure the safety of its journalists.
Radio Maxima, in Cabo-Haitiano, to the North of the country, also allegedly suspended its transmissions due to death threats and aggressions against its journalists.
The Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression has followed the unfolding of the events in Haiti with concern, and has learned of reports of threats to Haitian journalists and communications media that, given their repetition, do not appear to be isolated occurrences.
The Special Rapporteur once again expresses his profound concern for the situation of freedom of expression in Haiti.
On presenting the Report on the situation of freedom of thought and expression in Haiti, last July in Port-au-Prince, Bertoni had already verified that: "The acts of harassment and threats directed against journalists are indicative of an atmosphere of intimidation and intolerance for the exercise of journalism in Haiti." The State responded to this report with a letter dated August 27, in which it states that the events described in the report are not the result of the deliberate will of the Government.
In face of the persistence of the acts of harassment and threats against journalists, the Special Rapporteur reminds the State of its obligation to ensure the protection necessary to allow the free and full exercise of the right to freedom of expression, guaranteed by Article 13 of the American Convention on Human Rights, ratified by Haiti.
Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression
www.cidh.oas.org/relatoria