Reform of the OAS

1968 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Manger
Keyword(s):  
Buenos Aires ◽  
International Organization ◽  
Organization Of American States ◽  
American States ◽  
Regional System ◽  
Current Mood

On February 27, 1967, representatives of the member nations of the Organization of American States, meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina, signed the Protocol of Amendment to the 1948 Charter of Bogotá. It will become effective when ratified by two-thirds of the signatory states.The Protocol reflects the current mood toward the inter-American regional system, and perhaps toward international organization in general. Contrasted with the 1948 Charter, the Protocol has its elements of strength and of weakness. The spirit of internationalism today, however, is much weaker than it was in 1948, and from the standpoint of the Organization the elements of weakness within the Protocol are much greater than the elements of strength.

II. The Inter-American Regional System

1945 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 490-500
Author(s):  
Charles G. Fenwick
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Western Hemisphere ◽  
International Organization ◽  
Regional Organization ◽  
American System ◽  
American States ◽  
Regional System ◽  
The Status ◽  
Foreign Ministers

For more than half a century, the states of the Western hemisphere have coöperated for the promotion of their mutual interests by means of a loose form of organization which is unique in the categories of political science. Step by step, the organization has proclaimed its principles and strengthened the machinery of its conferences and its consultative meetings of Foreign Ministers; step by step it has enlarged its functions and developed new agencies for their administration. But at no time have the American states sought to draw up a formal charter defining the status of their collective membership as constituting a corporate international person. Rather they have preferred to coöperate along practical lines and to develop their organization progressively as the circumstances of the time appeared to demand. In consequence, while the inter-American system exists as a fact, while it functions as an association or “union” of twentyone American states, its precise juridical character as a regional organization has never been defined. Whether the establishment of the new international organization contemplated by the Dumbarton Oaks Proposals will call for such a definition, in order to establish more accurately the relations between the two systems, is a question for speculation, now that the Conference at Mexico City is in progress.

scholarly journals Organization of American States

1948 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 546-549
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Organization Of American States ◽  
United Nations Economic Commission ◽  
American States ◽  
Social Council ◽  
Economic Commission ◽  
Activity Recommendations

In addition to the Charter of the Organization of American States, the American Treaty of Pacific Settlement (the Pact of Bogotá), the Economic Agreement of Bogotá, the Inter-American Convention on the Granting of Civil Rights to Women, and the Inter-American Convention on the Granting of Political Rights to Women, the conference approved several resolutions and recommendations. Among these were included a resolution which established the Inter-American Juridical Committee as the Permanent Committee of the Inter-American Council of Jurists; one which provided for a survey of inter-American specialized organizations in order to determine which ones should be discontinued and which ones maintained; an agreement to convoke an Economic Conference of the Organization of American States in Buenos Aires in late 1948 or early 1949; and a resolution calling for a meeting of representatives of the Inter-American Economic and Social Council and the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America to draft a formula for the functioning of the two organizations Mid to outline their respective fields of activity. Recommendations were made concerning working conditions, improvement of social services, and the achievement of social justice in the American republics; an Inter-American Charter of Social Guarantees to protect workers was adopted by the conference, as well as the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man. The conference also approved the statute of the Inter-American Commission of Women; Two further resolutions were passed, one condemning international communism, or any other totalitarian doctrine, and a second creating an American Committee on Dependent Territories.

New Wine and Old Bottles: The Changing Inter-American System

1968 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 477-493 ◽  
Author(s):  
John C. Dreier
Keyword(s):  
Buenos Aires ◽  
The Other ◽  
Organization Of American States ◽  
Summit Meeting ◽  
American System ◽  
The Third ◽  
Major Significance ◽  
American States ◽  
The One

The year 1967 saw two inter-American conferences of major significance for the changing course of the inter-American system. One, the Third Special Inter-American Conference, held in Buenos Aires in February 1967, had as its purpose the revision of the 1948 Charter of the Organization of American States (OAS). The first conference to take such action, it culminated several years of debate over shortcomings in the OAS and ways and means of correcting them. The other principal assemblage of the year was the Meeting of American Chiefs of State at Punta del Este, Uruguay, in April. Although a regional “summit” meeting had been held in 1956, the one at Punta del Este was the first to give serious substantive consideration to major issues.

Charter of the Organisation of American States, Signed at Bogotá, April 29, 1948

1948 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 586-603 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
International Organization ◽  
Organization Of American States ◽  
Territorial Integrity ◽  
American States ◽  
Peace And Justice ◽  
The United Nations

The American States establish by this Charter the international organization that they have developed to achieve an order of peace and justice, to promote their solidarity, to strengthen their collaboration, and to defend their sovereignty, their territorial integrity and their independence. Within the United Nations, the Organization of American States is a regional agency.

The Revised OAS Charter and the Protection of Human Rights

1975 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
pp. 828-839 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Buergenthal
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Organization Of American States ◽  
American States ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights

The “Protocol of Buenos Aires,” which revised the Charter of the Organization of American States, entered into force in 1970. It changed the legal status of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in a number of important respects and strengthened the normative character of the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man. These are most significant developments, and yet they have gone largely unnoticed in the literature.

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