On Friday, July 15, the 1st hybrid refresher course on Inter-American Juridical System for the Diplomatic Institute “Dr. Jose Gustavo Guerrero” of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of El Salvador was completed. This course was organized by the Department of International Law of the Secretariat for Legal Affairs of the Organization of American States (OAS), with the sponsorship of the Diplomatic Institute of that country and lasted five days (July 11 -15, 2022).

Part of the Inter-American Program for the Development of International Law adopted by the OAS General Assembly in 1996 and updated in 2011, these activities also fulfill an OAS mandate to promote training and knowledge exchange with the region’s foreign affairs ministries.

The sessions of this course analyzed the following topics: i) background and evolution of the Inter-American system; ii) private international law and access to justice; iii) binding and non-binding agreements; iv) international commercial contracts; v) access to credit: simplified corporations, secure transactions and electronic warehouse receipts for agricultural products; vi) human rights conventions on racism, discrimination and intolerance; vii) American declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples; viii) neuroscience, neuro-technologies and human rights; and ix) food security.


The closing session of the Course was attended by Ambassador Agustín Vásquez, Permanent Representative of El Salvador to the OAS and Dr. Dante Negro, Director of the Department of International Law of the OAS.

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