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.
Huguette Labelle “Beyond Words and Paper: Why the Americas Must
Act Against Corruption”
It is a great honor to speak before you at this event, which has been graced by distinguished leaders in their respective fields before me.
The OAS can be proud of its history of support for the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the pursuit of international justice. It is to be recalled that it was OAS Member State Trinidad and Tobago, through former President H.E. Arthur N.R. Robinson, which in 1989 proposed that an international criminal court be established. It was this proposal, coupled with the revitalization of the UN Security Council at the end of the Cold War, which paved the way for the series of events culminating in the historic establishment of a permanent international criminal court with jurisdiction over the gravest offences known to humankind.
Since that time, OAS Member States have been integrally involved in all aspects of building the ICC. They were actively involved in shaping the ICC Statute at the Rome Conference, and in drafting the Court’s subsidiary instruments in the Preparatory Commission which followed the Rome Conference.
Today OAS Member States are well-represented at the Court. Five judges, including myself and the Second Vice-President, are from OAS Member States. The Prosecutor is also from the Americas.
As the Court has become a reality, the support of the OAS, its Member States, and civil society in the Americas, is now as critical as ever to the success of this essential institution. It is in this context that I wish to impart upon you today the role of the International Criminal Court in the enforcement of international justice. I will focus on the following:
The need for an international criminal court,
The features which make the ICC particularly well-suited to fill this role, and
The role of States and inter-governmental organizations such as the OAS in ensuring the success of the ICC.
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