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 SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR FOR FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION VISITS MEXICO
August 15, 2003
The Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), Eduardo Bertoni, will hold a visit to Mexico from August 18th to August 26th, 2003 to gather information related to freedom of expression and access to information issues. For that purpose, the Special Rapporteur will meet with key actors in the field, such as public officials, journalists, media editors and representatives of civil society.
As part of his agenda, the Special Rapporteur will be visiting the State of Guerrero on August 20th and the State of Chihuahua on August 22nd. His other activities will take place in the Federal District of Mexico. The Rapporteurship delegation will be hosted at the Hotel Fiesta Inn, Centro Histórico (Juárez Ave. 76, Colonia Centro, Delegación Cuahutémoc).
On August 19th, at noon, Eduardo Bertoni will give a lecture in the Martin Buber Hall at the Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, on the subject: “Terrorism and Freedom of Expression in the Americas”.
On August 23rd, at noon, the Rapporteur will give the final lecture of the Academia Mexicana de Derechos Humanos Seminar on Freedom of Expression and International Mechanisms of Protection of Human Rights (Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana Izazaga No. 92. Ex convento de San Jerónimo, Centro Histórico)
At the end of his visit, Dr. Bertoni will offer a press conference at the Office of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Mexico on Tuesday 26th at 10:20 a.m. (Presidente Masaryk #526, 1st. Floor, SEP Building, Colonia Polanco).
The Rapporteurship for Freedom of Expression was created in 1998 by the IACHR as a permanent office, with functional and budgetary independence, which works under the juridical framework of the Commission.
Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression
August 15, 2003
Washington, D.C.
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