Remarks by Jay Gilliam Senior LGBTQI+ Coordinator U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) November 15, 2022 Thank you, Excellency.  My name is Jay Gilliam, and I use the pronouns he/him/his. I am the Senior LGBTQI+ Coordinator in the U.S. Agency for International Development or USAID. At the outset, and on the behalf of the U.S. ... Read More»

  General Assembly Resolution Promotion of inter-American Parliamentary Engagement BEARING IN MIND Article 3 of the Inter-American Democratic Charter, which states that “essential elements of representative democracy include, inter alia, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, access to and the exercise of power in accordance with the rule of law, the holding of periodic, free, ... Read More»

STATEMENT “SITUATION IN THE BOLIVARIAN REPUBLIC OF VENEZUELA” (Read by the Permanent Representative of Canada to the OAS, Ambassador Hugh Adsett, on behalf of the delegations of Brazil, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, United States of America, Paraguay, and Uruguay, during the fourth plenary session of the fifty-second regular session of the OAS General ... Read More»

The undermentioned Member States of the Organization of American States (OAS) make the following statement at the Fifty-Second Regular Session of the General Assembly of the OAS in Lima, Peru, on October 6, 2022 (Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Panama, Paraguay, ... Read More»

RESOLUTION THE POLITICAL AND HUMAN RIGHTS CRISIS IN NICARAGUA THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES,   REAFFIRMING the Charter of the Organization of American States (OAS), which states that “representative democracy is indispensable for the stability, peace and development of the region”; RECALLING the Inter-American Democratic Charter, which states that “the promotion ... Read More»