Newsletter - February 2011
Editorial
The OAS Department of International Law (DIL)
welcomes you to the
fourth issue of its newsletter. This issue
covers the Department's activities over the last
five months of 2010, and January 2011. Obviously,
this period has witnessed significant opportunities
for the Department to continue its work
disseminating and promoting concepts...
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Indigenous Peoples
Within the framework of the Department's "Program
of Action to Strengthen the Participation of
Indigenous Peoples in the Inter-American System",
launched in 2009 with financial support from the
German Technical Cooperation Agency (GIZ), the
Department has organized training activities for
representatives of indigenous communities, as well
as for NGOs and government officials working with
indigenous populations in Central and South America
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Afro-descendants
The Department of International Law has continued to
pursue its work on the Afro-descendant question.
Firstly, the department participated in the ninth
session of the Working Group of Experts on People of
African Descent, which took place in Geneva,
Switzerland, April 12-16, 2010.
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Access to Public Information
The General Assembly of the OAS, through resolutions
AG/RES. 2548 (XL-O/10) and AG/RES. 2607 (XL-O/10),
requested the Permanent Council, in collaboration
with the Department of International Law, conduct a
special session of the Committee on Juridical and
Political Affairs to address the topic of access
to public information...
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Family Law
On November 9-10, 2010, the Department of
International Law organized the First Technical
Meeting of the Network for Legal Cooperation in the
Area of Family and Child Law (the Network). This
meeting was convened by the Permanent Council of the
OAS in response to the recommendations of the
Ministers of Justice and other Attorneys General of
the Americas meeting in the framework of REMJA-VIII.
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Course on International Law
The thirty-seventh annual Course on International
Law was held in Rio of Janeiro, Brazil, from
August 2-20, 2010. The course was organized by the
Department of International Law, under the
Secretariat for Legal Affairs, in conjunction with
the Inter-American Juridical Committee.
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Refugees
With a view to increasing awareness of international
refugee law and its application, the Office of the
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
organized the "Eighth Regional Latin American
Course on International Refugee Law" in Panama
City, September 7-9, 2010...
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National Transparency Week
The Department of International Law participated in
the seventh annual National Transparency Week,
organized by the Federal Institute of Access to
Public Information (IFAI) of Mexico, which took
place August 25-27, 2010. .
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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..
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Georgetown University Conference Series on
Inter-American Relations
The Department of International Law, participated in
Georgetown University's on-going lecture series on
Latin American Relations, to present an overview
of the system for conflict resolution in the
hemisphere. The lecture is part of a program that
counts with the participation of recognized scholars
and luminaries on Inter-American relations...
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Thirty-third Seminar on Private International and
Comparative Law
The Department of International Law participated in
the Thirty-third Seminar on Private International
and Comparative Law, which was held in Colima,
Mexico, on October 12-15, 2010.
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Secured Transactions
The Department of International Law participated in
two important events at the International Finance
Corporation and the World Bank Group to promote
access to credit and capital investment in
developing countries.
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Seventeenth Congress of the International Academy
of Comparative Law
The Department of International Law participated in
the development of a joint study with the
International Institute for the Unification of
Private Law (UNIDROT), with a view to unifying
criteria for financial leasing and its relationship
to mobile guarantees, including the related
international instruments adopted by the OAS.
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Meeting of U.S. State Department Advisory
Committee
From July 19 to 22, the Department of International
Law took part in the
Seminar on Treaty Law in Nassau, Bahamas,
organized by the Secretariat of the Caribbean
Community and the Office of the General Counsel, in
cooperation with the European Union.
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