{"id":4601,"date":"2011-02-17T18:18:45","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T18:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cejil.z.actotal.net\/2011\/02\/17\/the-oas-general-assembly-will-elect-four-members-of-the-commission-in-june\/"},"modified":"2021-02-15T12:35:34","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T12:35:34","slug":"the-oas-general-assembly-will-elect-four-members-of-the-commission-in-june","status":"publish","type":"comunicado-de-prensa","link":"https:\/\/cejil.org\/en\/press-releases\/the-oas-general-assembly-will-elect-four-members-of-the-commission-in-june\/","title":{"rendered":"The OAS General Assembly will elect four members of the Commission in June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington D.C., February 16, 2011. The Organization of American States (OAS) will hold its annual General Assembly in San Salvador (El Salvador) from 5 to 7 June this year. In this context, the member States of the Assembly will elect four of seven members of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (CIDH), an independent body of the OAS which promotes and protects human rights. The selection of \/ the Commissioners \/ as a key inter-American system, which calls for justice in cases of violations of human rights in the Americas process.<\/p>\n<p>The mandate of the \/ the Commissioners \/ as is four years, renewable once. Four of these mandates expire this year: Felipe Gonz\u00e1lez (Chile), current president of the IACHR, Luz Patricia Mej\u00eda (Venezuela), Mar\u00eda Silvia Guill\u00e9n (El Salvador) and Paulo Sergio Pinheiro (Brazil). The first three can be nominated for a second term but Pinheiro&#8217;s second term expires this year. To date have been submitted the following nominations: the two women, Rosa Mar\u00eda Ortiz (Paraguay) and Tracy Robinson (Jamaica) and three sons, Paulo de Tarso Vannuchi (Brazil), Guillermo A. Cochez (Panama) and Victor Garcia Toma (Peru).<\/p>\n<p>According to Article 3 of the Statute of the IACHR each government may propose up to three candidates, whether nationals of the state proposing them or any other member of the Organization.<\/p>\n<p>The choice of the Commissioners will be by a majority vote of the Member States of the OAS. The deadline for registration of candidates \/ ace expires next March 7. The mandate of the \/ the three Commissioners \/ remaining as: Dinah Shelton (USA), Rodrigo Escobar Gil (Colombia) and Jos\u00e9 de Jes\u00fas Orozco Henr\u00edquez (Mexico) expires in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Articles 73 and 75 of the rules of procedure of the General Assembly have more information on this process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3603,"template":"","categories":[],"class_list":["post-4601","comunicado-de-prensa","type-comunicado-de-prensa","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cejil.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comunicado-de-prensa\/4601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cejil.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comunicado-de-prensa"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cejil.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/comunicado-de-prensa"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cejil.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cejil.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cejil.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}