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OAS Secretary General Names New IACHR Executive Secretary

  July 19, 2012

Pursuant to the powers vested in him by Article 40 of the American Convention on Human Rights and Article 21 paragraph 3 of the Statute of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, has named Mr. Emilio Alvarez Icaza as Executive Secretary of the Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).

For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.

Reference: E-261/12