Analysis of Mandates 2007–2011

Working method approved by the Working Group for the Review of

OAS Programs

Mandates Recorded 1948–2011

2,370

1948–2006

925

2007–2011

1,445

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

328

326

255

259

277

Mandates 2007–2011

1,445

General Assembly mandates

Mandates from other legal instruments

96 1,349Inter-American Programs

Plans of Action

Communiqués of Meetings of Ministers and High Authorities

Work Plans

Method

a) Mandates with expired deadlines for implementation

b) Mandates with currency solely during the budgetary cycle, under Art. 83 of the General Standards

c) Mandates created for an event that has concluded

Expired

AG/RES. 2372 (XXXVIII-O/08)

Coordination of Volunteers in the Hemisphere in response to Natural Disasters and the Fight against Hunger and Poverty – White Helmets Initiative

No. 13 To request the General Secretariat to report to the General Assembly at its fortieth regular session on the implementation of this resolution, the execution of which shall be subject to the availability of financial resources in the program-budget of the Organization and other resources.

AG/RES. 2353 (XXXVII-O/07)

Program-budget of the Organization for 2008, Quotas and Contributions to FEMCIDI for 2008

No. III, B, 14

14. HonorariaTo maintain the sum of US$150 a day for the honoraria paid to members of the following bodies entitled to such payment: Administrative Tribunal, Board of External Auditors, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Inter-American Juridical Committee, and Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

AG/RES. 2341 (XXXVII-O/07)

Inter-American Convention against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives, and Other Related Materials

No. 4 To convene, in the framework of the Consultative Committee of the CIFTA, the Third Meeting of the OAS Group of Experts to Prepare Model Legislation in the Areas to Which the CIFTA Refers, for October 15 and 16, 2007, to consider draft model legislation on legislative measures, pursuant to Article IV of the Convention.

d) Mandates corresponding to observations and recommendations on the annual reports of the:

• Inter-American Commission on Human Rights• Inter-American Court of Human Rights• Inter-American Juridical Committee

Duplicates

Mandates whose text repeats identically over several years

2007 AG/RES. 2271 (XXXVII-O/07)

Protecting Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms while Countering Terrorism

No. 4 To request the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to continue promoting respect for and the defense of human rights and facilitating efforts by member states to comply appropriately with their international human rights commitments when developing and executing counterterrorist measures, including the rights of persons who might be at a disadvantage, subject to discrimination, or at risk as a result of terrorist violence or counterterrorist initiatives, and to report to the Permanent Council on the advisability of conducting a follow-up study.

2008 AG/RES. 2415 (XXXVIII-O/08)

Protecting Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms While Countering Terrorism

No. 9 To request the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to continue promoting respect for and the defense of human rights and facilitating efforts by member states to comply appropriately with their international human rights commitments when developing and executing counterterrorist measures, including the rights of persons who might be at a disadvantage, subject to discrimination, or at risk as a result of terrorist violence or counterterrorist initiatives, and to report to the Permanent Council on the advisability of conducting a follow-up study.

2009 AG/RES. 2512 (XXXIX-O/09)

Protecting Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms While Countering Terrorism

No. 10 To request the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to continue promoting respect for and the defense of human rights and facilitating efforts by member states to comply appropriately with their international human rights commitments when developing and executing counterterrorist measures, including the rights of persons who might be at a disadvantage, subject to discrimination, or at risk as a result of terrorist violence or counterterrorist initiatives, and to report to the Permanent Council on the advisability of conducting a follow-up study.

2011 AG/RES. 2676 (XLI-O/11)

Protecting Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms While Countering Terrorism

No. 13 To request the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to continue promoting respect for and the defense of human rights and facilitating efforts by member states to comply appropriately with their international human rights commitments when developing and executing counterterrorist measures, including the rights of persons who might be at a disadvantage, subject to discrimination, or at risk as a result of terrorist violence or counterterrorist initiatives, and to report to the Permanent Council on the advisability of conducting a follow-up study.

Procedure

Mandates whose actions for implementation have been as incorporated as working or reporting methods in areas of the General Secretariat.

AG/RES. 2338 (XXXVII-O/07

Support for and Follow-up to the Summits of the Americas Process

No. 10 To request the General Secretariat to submit to the Permanent Council systematic and detailed information on the budgetary and financial management of said Specific Fund.

AG/RES. 2514 (XXXIX-O/09)

Access to Public Information: Strengthening Democracy

No. 12 To instruct the Special Rapporteurship for Freedom of Expression of the IACHR to continue to include in the Commission’s Annual Report a report on the situation regarding access to public information in the region.

Not mandates

Do not entail actions to be carried out by the Secretary General and do not meet the terms of document CP/CAAP-2977/8 add. 1 defining a mandate “as a request for action by the OAS General Secretariat, which originates in a resolution of the General Assembly.”

2010 AG/RES. 2535 (XL-O/10)

Inter-American Convention against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives, and Other Related Materials

No. 3 To encourage the member states of the Organization of American States (OAS) to implement, as appropriate, the aforementioned model legislation, and to request the assistance of the Technical Secretariat, where appropriate, in the development and enactment of this model legislation.

1,349 mandates

Expired Duplicates Not Mandates Procedure Current

649 mandates

Committee on Juridical and Political Affairs 207 mandates 50 topics

Conclusions:

• 75% of topics have between 1 and 4 mandates• Average of 4 mandates per topic• 40% of mandates (82) are focused on just 5 topics:

• Follow-up to the Democratic Charter

• Gender equity and equality• Access to public information• Support for Haiti• Civil registry and the right to

identity

No. TOPIC MANDATES

1 Follow-up to the Inter-American Democratic Charter 222 Gender equity and equality 193 Access to public information 154 Support for Haiti 145 Universal Civil Registry and the "Right to Identity” 126 Declaration of Medellín: Youth and Democratic Values 98 International humanitarian law 97 Strengthening of human rights systems pursuant to the mandates arising from the Summits of the Americas. 99 Modernization and use of electoral technologies in the Hemisphere 7

10 Observations and recommendations on the Annual Report of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights 711 Human rights defenders 512 Civil society participation in OAS activities and in the Summits of the Americas process 513 Promotion of the International Criminal Court 518 Cooperation for combating corruption 414 American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 415 Right to freedom of thought and expression 416 Inter-American Program for the Development of International Law 417 Protocol of San Salvador 419 Older people 322 Convention against Racism and All Forms of Discrimination and Intolerance 320 Declaration of Recife 321 Education in democratic values and practices 324 Afro-descendants in the Americas 223 Rights of people under any form of detention or imprisonment 226 Right to the truth 227 Fund for Peace: Peaceful settlement of territorial disputes 225 Protecting human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism 229 Freedom of assembly and association in the Americas 228 Protection of stateless people in the Americas 230 Protection of asylum seekers and refugees in the Americas 231 REMJA 239 Justice Studies Center of the Americas 134 Support for governance and the democratic institutional system in Guatemala 132 Social Charter of the Americas 136 Continued participation in CIDI by member states that have not ratified the Protocol of Managua 137 Interregional cooperation with the African Union 146 Rights of persons with disabilities 133 Internally displaced persons 138 Strengthening partnership for development: Political dialogue, technical cooperation, structure, and mechanisms 1

40 Strengthening national human rights systems in the member states and support for the work of defenders of the people, defenders of the population, and human rights attorneys or commissioners (ombudsmen)

1

41 Strengthening the role of national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights in the Organization of American States

1

35 Civil society organizations and the protection of human rights and promotion of democracy 143 Obligation of the member states to respect the rules, principles, and essential purposes contained in the Charter of the Organization of American States and international law, in order to preserve and strengthen peace in the Hemisphere144 Observations and recommendations on the annual report of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights 145 Citizen participation and strengthening of democracy in the Americas 142 Disaster prevention, response, and humanitarian assistance among the member states 147 Consumer protection: Consolidation of the network for consumer safety 148 Meetings of Ministers of Public Security in the Americas 149 Seventh Inter-American Specialized Conference on Private International Law 150 60th Anniversary of the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man 1

207TOTAL