| The Organization of American States (OAS) is an international organization, headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States. Its members are the 35 independent nations of the Americas.
Official site http://www.oas.org/ OAS headquarters building in Washington, D.C. The Ninth International Conference of American States was held in Bogotá between March and May 1948 and led by U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall, a meeting which led to a pledge by members to fight communism in the Americas. This was the event that saw the birth of the OAS as it stands today, with the signature by 21 American countries of the Charter of the Organization of American States on 30 April 1948 (in effect since December 1951). The meeting also adopted the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man, the world's first general human rights instrument. In the words of Article 1 of the Charter, the goal of the member nations in creating the OAS was "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." |
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| The Charter of the Organization of the American States (otherwise known the Charter of the OAS) is a Pan-American treaty that sets out the creation of the Organization of American States. It was signed at the 9th International American Conference of 30 April 1948, held in Bogotá, Colombia. The treaty came into effect on 13 December 1951.
It has been amended by the: Protocol of Buenos Aires (27 February 1967) Argentina (1948) |
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