Newsletter - April 2010

Publications - New releases

1. “Introductory Course on International Humanitarian Law”

The Department of International Law (DIL) recently published the book “Introductory Course on International Humanitarian Law.” This is an English translation—done with the assistance of the ICRC—of a previously published book, and includes presentations made at the First Introductory Course on International Humanitarian Law, held on January 31, 2007.

The volume also contains a compilation of the principal instruments in the field of international humanitarian law, thereby offering in a single book a summary of the introduction to the doctrine and basic legal sources of this branch of international law.

With this publication, the Department of International Law and the International Committee of the Red Cross have made this material available to English-speaking readers, contributing to broader dissemination of the subject.

2. Reprint of the OAS Charter

The DIL is currently working on a new printing of 500 copies of the OAS Charter in a bilingual Spanish/English edition. This pocket-sized edition helps disseminate the Organization’s basic document more widely, and is distributed free of charge.

3. Upcoming publications

Following the practice of prior years, the publication of the XXXVI Course on International Law, held in August 2009, will be edited and distributed during 2010.

With respect to the publication of the Workshops on International Law, this year there will be a combined publication covering the workshops held in Campo Grande, Brazil, in November 2008, and those held in San José, Costa Rica, in February 2010.

4. Virtual bookstore

The DIL catalog of publications contains about 26 available titles of works published in previous years. That information is available on our website: http://www.oas.org/dil/publications_catalogue.htm.

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