OAS approves changes to human rights committee functions

From left in this OAS photo at the meeting are Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza, Jose Enrique Castillo, Foreign Minister of Costa Rica and Deputy Secretary General, Albert Ramdin.

An Extraordinary General Assembly of the Organisation of American States (OAS) on Saturday approved by acclamation a resolution which “concludes the process of reflection” on the functioning of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) for the strengthening of the Inter-American System of Human Rights (ISHR).

Some of the proposed changes had been strongly opposed by some hemispheric rights organisations and regional bodies including the