Organisme international de santé publique avec pour mission d’améliorer la santé et le niveau de vie des populations des Amériques, l’Organisation panaméricaine de la Santé (OPS) se veut un lieu de travail où toutes les personnes faisant partie de l’Organisation sont traitées avec dignité et respect et en mesure de mener à bien les tâches qui leur sont confiées dans un environnement où n’existe aucune forme quelle qu’elle soit de harcèlement.

El Estatuto del Personal enuncia las condiciones fundamentales de servicio y los derechos, deberes y obligaciones del personal de la Oficina Sanitaria Panamericana. Este Estatuto fija los principios que en materia de política relativa al personal deben servir de pauta al Director en la contratación de personal para la Oficina y en la administración de ésta. En su calidad de más alto funcionario administrativo de la Oficina Sanitaria Panamericana, el Director puede dictar y hacer que se cumplan las disposiciones del Reglamento del Personal, compatible con estos principios, que considere necesarias. En esta versión del Estatuto y Reglamento del Personal (julio de 2015), se han incorporado todas las modificaciones realizadas al Reglamento del Personal por la Directora. El Comité Ejecutivo, en su 156.a sesión, confirmó dichas modificaciones y la 54.a Consejo Directivo tomó nota de ellas. Finalmente, en esta versión del Estatuto y Reglamento del Personal se incorpora modificaciones al Reglamento del Personal hecha por la Directora y confirmada por el Comité Ejecutivo en su 157.a sesión, vigente a partir del 3 de octubre de 2015.

For the past half century the international civil service has been guided by the Standards of Conduct in the International Civil Service prepared in 1954 by the International Civil Service Advisory Board. Although these standards have stood the test of time, an earlier era resonates in some of the content and tone. The onset of a new millennium provided the impetus for the revision of these standards to take into account global changes and to reflect, in more modern, gender-neutral language, developments and concepts that either did not exist or were of lesser importance in 1954. A renewed interest in the subject on the part of national civil services and the private sector in responding to new ethical challenges was a further stimulus to a new text.

For more than a half-century the international civil service has been guided and inspired
by the Standards of Conduct in the International Civil Service drafted by the International Civil
Service Advisory Board in 1954. Though some of the tone and content of the 1954 edition
evokes an earlier era, the underlying raison d'être for the Standards, and indeed the principles
themselves, have largely stood the test of time. However, as the world has changed over the
decades, so has the nature of services provided by United Nations common system organizations
with the ascendancy and pervasiveness of technology and the shifts in the relationships and
interactions taking place both internally and externally in the organizations. A periodic
reexamination and updating of the Standards was required to reflect this world in transition. The title, Standards of Conduct for the International Civil Service, remains as selfexplanatory
now as it was in 1954. Like the versions before them, these revised Standards are
intended as a behavioral and ethical guide. They exist to inform, but also to inspire us and, when
needed, to provide explanations. They reflect the philosophical underpinnings of the
international civil service and inform its conscience. We trust that like the previous version, the
present Standards become an indispensable part of the culture and heritage of the organizations
and are of similarly enduring quality. (July 2013 - from the Foreword)

Statement of Assessed Contributions

The Pan American Sanitary Code was signed ad referendum by 18 countries of the Americas in the assembly hall of the former Academy of Medical, Physical, and Natural Sciences (now the Dr. Carlos J. Finlay Museum of Science History) on 14 November 1924 in Havana, Cuba, during the Seventh Pan American Sanitary Conference. The Code, which was eventually ratified by all the republics of the Americas and remains in force today, represents the greatest achievement in health policy-making in the American hemisphere and the cul-mination of decades of international initiatives aimed at prolonging people’s lives and ensuring their happiness.

Since epidemiological week (EW) 44 of 2016, no additional countries or territories of the Americas have confirmed autochthonous, vector-borne transmission of Zika virus disease