The IX Inter-American Indian Congress

1986 ◽  
Vol 80 (3) ◽  
pp. 682-685 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russel Lawrence Barsh
Keyword(s):  
American Indian ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Indian Institute ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
International Convention ◽  
Scientific Investigations ◽  
American States ◽  
Pan American ◽  
American Union

Forty-five years ago, U.S. Indian Commissioner John Collier helped persuade the members of the Pan American Union (now the Organization of American States) to establish the Inter-American Indian Institute “to elucidate the problems affecting the Indian groups within their respective jurisdictions, and to cooperate with one another, on a basis of mutual respect for the inherent rights of each to exercise absolute liberty in solving the ‘Indian Problem’ in America.” Operating under an international convention concluded in November 1940 and governed by a board of 21 state representatives, the Mexico City-based Institute is charged with “scientific investigations,” technical assistance to national Indian agencies and “the training of men and women experts devoted to the problems of the Indian.” Institute policy is also guided by an Inter-American Indian Congress of governmental administrators of Indian affairs, which is convened every four years.

The Emergency Advisory Committee for Political Defense

1944 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 218-241
Author(s):  
Carl B. Spaeth ◽  
William Sanders
Keyword(s):  
Advisory Committee ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
American Experience ◽  
American States ◽  
Testing Ground ◽  
Pan American ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Right ◽  
American Union

The war and the present preoccupation with post-war plans have brought about a general awareness of the fact that the Americas have been a testing ground for the orderly organization of relations among sovereign states, especially in the development of cooperative principles and techniques. The construction of a political organization within which these principles and techniques could be consolidated has not, however, characterized the American experience. The Pan American Union, for example, is expressly denied the right to consider political or controversial questions, and proposals for the creation of a “league” or “association” of American states has met with courteous but definite coolness.

Organization of American States

1951 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 406-410
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
American Indian ◽  
Indian Institute ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
The Other ◽  
Advisory Opinion ◽  
Organization Of American States ◽  
American States ◽  
Social Council

At its meeting of December 6, 1950, the Council referred to the Inter-American Economic and Social Council studies in regard to a permanent Inter-American Committee on Social Security for an advisory opinion; and, noting that some seven members of the Inter-American Indian Institute had approved a draft agreement between it and the Council of the Organization, requested the Secretary-General of the Organization of American States to ascertain whether the other governments approved the draft.

Organization of American States

1950 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 700-702
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Special Committee ◽  
Organization Of American States ◽  
American Council ◽  
American States ◽  
Pan American ◽  
American Union

The Inter-American Council of Jurists, created pursuant to Article 57 of the Charter of the Organization of American States, held its first meeting at Rio de Janeiro from May 22 to June 15, 1950 with nineteen states represented. Convoked by the Council of the Organization of American States, in accordance with the charter, its agenda of fourteen topics was prepared by the Pan American Union in cooperation with a special committee of the OAS Council.

scholarly journals Organization of American States

1950 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-155
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
Trade Mark ◽  
American Child ◽  
Organization Of American States ◽  
American Council ◽  
American States ◽  
Draft Statute ◽  
Pan American ◽  
The City ◽  
American Trade

On October 11, 1949 the Council of the Organization of American States adopted a resolution designating the city of Bogotá as the seat of the tenth Pan American Child Congress and setting 1952 as the year in which the Congress should meet. Approval was given on November 2 to the report and second draft statute of the Inter-American Council of Jurists submitted by the Committee on the Organs of the Council and Their Statutes; the draft was put into force provisionally. The Council decided to transmit it to the governments of the American republics and to the Inter-American Juridical Committee for observation. The activities of the Inter-American Trade Mark Bureau were declared to have ceased, while the report and second draft statute of the Inter-American Cultural Council as submitted by the Committee on the Organs of the Council and Their Statutes was approved by the Council and transmitted to the governments. After this committee had received the observations of the Inter-American Cultural Council and prepared a definitive text of the statute on the basis of these comments, it was to submit the text to the Council of the Organization. Finally, at its meeting on November 2, the Council chose Mexico City as headquarters of the first meeting of the Inter-American Cultural Council and agreed in general upon the second half of 1950 as the time of meeting. The Cultural Council was requested to study the matter of the provisional creation and headquarters of the Committee for Cultural Action and submit recommendations on the provisional membership of the Committee for Cultural Action.

United States Opposition to Canadian Membership in the Pan American Union: A Canadian View

1961 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas G. Anglin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Organization Of American States ◽  
Full Membership ◽  
American States ◽  
Secretary Of State ◽  
Pan American ◽  
American Union

After years of hesitation, Canada is now seriously considering full membership in the Organization of American States (OAS). The initiative for this shift in policy has come, not from officials in die Department of External Affairs, but principally from Prime Minister John Diefenbaker and especially die Secretary of State for External Affairs, Howard Green. Both have returned within die past year from visits soudi of the Rio Grande critical of Canada's traditional neglect of its interests in Latin America.

The Pan American Union at the Sixth International Conference of American States

1928 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 764-775
Author(s):  
William Manger
Keyword(s):  
Western Hemisphere ◽  
The Political ◽  
International Conference ◽  
American States ◽  
Differences Of Opinion ◽  
Sixth International Conference ◽  
Pan American ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
American Union ◽  
Sixth International

A clearer definition of the scope and purposes of the Pan American Union and a reaffirmation of faith and confidence in the purposes of the institution and the principles which it represents, are among the outstanding accomplishments of the Sixth International Conference of American States, which met at Habana from January 16 to February 20,1928. The discussions by the committee appointed to consider the organization of the Union demonstrated anew the interest of the representatives of the twenty-one Republics in the institution and their desire to make it of the greatest possible influence in cementing the bonds of economic, social and cultural union between the nations of the Western Hemisphere. Throughout the proceedings it was clearly evident that all the delegates were animated by these motives. Differences of opinion that developed were not of a fundamental character, affecting the existence of the Union itself, but related to the extent of the powers to be granted to the institution and to matters of internal organization. At the same time the results of the deliberations definitely settled the doubts and possible misunderstandings that had previously existed with respect to the extent of the political authority that the Union might exercise.

scholarly journals OAS and Canada

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Maxwell Gill
Keyword(s):  
Regional Development ◽  
Organization Of American States ◽  
Member States ◽  
American States ◽  
History Of ◽  
Pan American ◽  
American Union ◽  
Different Levels

The history of Canadian interaction with American states both unilaterally and through the Pan-American Union and Organization of American States is reviewed. The author argues that Canada has historically and continuously supported the OAS, and its member states, at a distance. Canada demonstrates a dichotomy of involvement; in few areas, Canada is deeply involved, and in many other areas, Canada is not at all involved. Canada's pattern of involvement appears to suggest a focus on non-reciprocal regional development as opposed to reciprocating involvement. This is dispite several calls from different levels of government that a broader, more involved level of involement would serve the OAS and its member states better.

Pan American Conventions on Industrial Property

1928 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 803-821
Author(s):  
Stephen P. Ladas
Keyword(s):  
Governing Board ◽  
Industrial Property ◽  
Trade Marks ◽  
International Conference ◽  
American States ◽  
Sixth International Conference ◽  
Pan American ◽  
American Union ◽  
Sixth International

The Sixth International Conference of American States which met at Havana on January 16, 1928, adopted a resolution, proposed by the Argentine delegation, recommending to the Governing Board of the Pan American Union “ the calling of a special conference of representatives of the Union, to be held at such place and date as it may designate, for the purpose of studying in its amplest scope the problem of the Inter-American protection of trade marks.” 1 The conclusions of that conference are to be forwarded, through the medium of the Pan American Union, to the consideration of the different governments without the need of a later reference to the Seventh International Conference of American States.

Organization of American States

1954 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 410-414
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Fiscal Year ◽  
Working Capital ◽  
Organization Of American States ◽  
Finance Committee ◽  
American States ◽  
The Status ◽  
Pan American ◽  
American Union

The following summary covers the activities of the Council of the Organization of American States from its 118th meeting on December 3, 1952, through its 129th meeting on April 1, 1953.On January 7, 1953, the Council approved the report of the Finance Committee on the budget for the fiscal year 1953–1954: $2,939,030 for the expenses of the Pan American Union, $219,524 for the Inter-American Defense Board, and $1,377 for repayment of advances from the Working Capital Fund. Of this amount, members would contribute $3, 159, 941; making allowance for income from miscellaneous sources, the budget was $225, 782 higher than for the pre-ceding fiscal year. The Council also approved the scale of assessments for the coming fiscal year; contributions by members ranged from 66 percent for the United States, 8.81 percent for Brazil and 7.42 percent for Argentina to 0.24 percent each for Costa Rica, Ecuador, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua and Paraguay. The attention of member governments was drawn to a report submitted to the Council on March 4, 1953, by the Finance Committee on the status of members' contributions; the report revealed that six countries had paid in full their quotas for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1953, four countries had paid in part while eleven had as yet made no payment. Two members still owed part of their quotas for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1952 while four had made no payment on that quota. Three members still owed their quotas of the budgets of fiscal years before 1951–1952.

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