Newsletter -February 2011
International Protection of Human Rights
 For
the second consecutive year, the Department of
International Law participated in the prestigious
Master’s Degree Program in International Protection
of Human Rights, organized by the Universidad of
Alcalá, Spain, under the leadership of the renown
internationalist of said higher institution of
learning, Professor Carlos Jiménez Piernas and
others. The lectures for which the Department was
responsible were given November 8-12, 2010, at the
old and distinguished university in whose auditorium
the prestigious Cervantes Prize is awarded each
year.
This year, the Department gave five lectures in
connection with a course entitled “Human Rights and
Vulnerable Groups: Political Processes within the
framework of the Organization of American States.”
The course addressed issues such as the OAS and the
inter-American system; the Draft Inter-American
Convention against Racism and All Forms of
Discrimination and Intolerance; the Inter-American
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities and
the Program of Action for the Decade of the Americas
for the Rights and Dignity of Persons with
Disabilities; the role of the OAS with respect to
refugees, internally displaced populations, and
stateless persons; and finally, the issues of human
rights, sexual orientation, and gender identity, as
well as the international standards for the
protection of people of African descent within the
inter-American system.
The master’s degree program was designed to train
government officials, attorneys, and other
professionals working in the human rights area, with
special emphasis on international legal practice.
Among those taking part in the course were several
Latin American and European students, as well as
students from other regions. Many were government
officials in their respective countries, hailing
from institutions such as the ombudsman’s office, or
other human-rights-based entities, while others were
members of NGOs working in the human rights field.
(More information about the Master's:
http://dip.uah.es/inicio-en.htm).
Through its participation in this program, the
Department of International Law has sought to
disseminate information on the work of the
Organization in the human rights field and on the
issues of different vulnerable groups. All of these
efforts are in keeping with the mandate established
within the framework of the Inter-American Program
for the Development of International Law that the
DIL is tasked with implementing. (More information:
http://www.oas.org/dil/courses_seminars.htm).
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