Newsletter - April 2010
Editorial
 Welcome
to the second issue of the newsletter of the OAS
Department of International Law. We want to begin by
thanking all those who sent their congratulations
for the launching of the newsletter in January 2010.
This encourages us to keep working to improve this
communication tool of the Department for all those
with an interest in our work. We intend to keep it
coming to you regularly and continue upgrading it in
response to your kind suggestions.
During this first quarter of the year the Department
has been working on a model law regarding access to
public information, which will be submitted to the
policy organs in the upcoming weeks. It also
provided strong support for special sessions of the
Permanent Council’s Committee on Juridical and
Political Affairs on the International Criminal
Court and International Humanitarian Law. In that
context, the Department organized courses on
international humanitarian law and on refugees for
personnel of the permanent missions, the General
Secretariat, and the general public. The Department
of International Law also participated in the Eighth
REMJA, in Brasilia, by doing a presentation on the
work underway to establish a network on family and
child law and a workshop on the participation and
presence of Afro-descendents in the OAS, held in
Lima, Peru. Regarding the latter topic, it also
organized a workshop of experts on Afro-descendents
at OAS headquarters.
Two events of great importance for our Department
were the tenth version of the Workshops on
International Law, a meeting of international law
professors in San José, Costa Rica, and the 76th
regular session of the Inter-American Juridical
Committee, for which the Department of International
Law is the technical secretariat, and which took
place in Lima, Peru.
Finally, the Department presented its annual report
to the Committee on Juridical and Political Affairs
on the implementation of the Inter-American Program
for the Development of International Law adopted by
the General Assembly in 1997, and continued to
provide legal advisory services to various organs of
the Organization and served as depository for
inter-American treaties and bilateral cooperation
agreements.
It has therefore been a busy quarter, the many
activities described below. We hope you continue to
find the newsletter and its contents useful.
Dante M. Negro
Director
Department of International Law - OAS
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