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The Old Age Security (OAS, French: Sécurité de la vieillesse) program is a universal retirement pension available to most residents and citizens of Canada who have reached 65 years old. This pension is supplemented by the Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS), which is added to the monthly OAS payment for seniors with lower incomes.
33 out of 35 sovereign states of the Americas are member states of the Organization of American States (OAS); Cuba and Nicaragua are the only exceptions, although they are both former member states. [1]
A clickable Euler diagram showing the relationships between various multinational organizations in the Americas v • d • e. The Organization of American States (OAS or OEA; Spanish: Organización de los Estados Americanos; Portuguese: Organização dos Estados Americanos; French: Organisation des États américains) is an international organization founded on 30 April 1948 to promote ...
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 Ninth International Conference of American States of 30 April 1948, held in Bogotá , Colombia .
XXXVIII Regular Meeting – Medellín, 2008.. The General Assembly is the supreme decision-making body of the Organization of American States (OAS).. The General Assembly came into being as a part of the restructuring of the OAS that took place following adoption of the Protocol of Buenos Aires (signed 27 February 1967; in force as of 12 March 1970), which contained extensive amendments to the ...
The mission of the Secretariat for Multidimensional Security (SMS) is to promote and coordinate cooperation among the OAS Member States and between them and the Inter-American system and other bodies in the international system, in order to assess, prevent, confront, and respond effectively to threats to security, with a view to being the leading point of reference in the Hemisphere for ...
No. Image Name Country Term of Office 1: William Manger United States 1948–1958 2: William Sanders United States 1958–1968 3: M. Rafael Urquía El Salvador 1968–1975 4: Jorge Luis Zelaya Coronado
In 2018, the government of Justin Trudeau introduced a new mandatory criteria for eligible employers and projects of the Canada Summer Jobs program, for which "the core mandate of the organization must respect individual human rights in Canada, including the values underlying the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (Charter) as well as ...