OAS/REMJA AND THE UNITED STATES TRAINING JUDGES AND MAGISTRATES OF
CENTRAL AMERICA, THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC AND MEXICO IN LEGAL COOPERATION
AGAINST CYBER-CRIME
Starting from today, the 24th of March, until the 26th, 2015,
the OAS Department of Legal Cooperation of the Secretariat for Legal
Affairs, the United States Department of Justice, through its Computer
Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS), and the Guatemalan
Judicial Branch, will hold a Regional Cyber-crime Training Workshop in
Guatemala City, Guatemala.
This workshop will provide training to Judges and Magistrates from
Guatemala, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Honduras,
Mexico and Panama, with respect to, among others, the scope and context
of international cyber-crime standards and conventions, legal resources
available, the handling of electronic evidence, procedural cybercrime
legislation, and the importance of international legal cooperation in
the prosecution and punishment of cybercrime. The workshop will also
include a mock oral-trial proceeding demonstrating the important role of
and admissibility of electronic evidence in criminal prosecutions.
This event in Guatemala is the 23rd workshop to be held under
the framework of the OAS Cyber-Crime Training Program, in fulfillment of
the recommendations adopted by the Working Group on Cyber-crime of the
REMJA process (Meetings of Ministers of Justice or Other Ministers or
Attorneys General of the Americas).
As such, it is expected that the opening of the workshop will be
attended by the Magistrates of the Supreme Court of Guatemala, the
Attorney General of Guatemala, Ambassadors to Guatemala from the
participating countries, and the Deputy Chief of the United States
Embassy in Guatemala.
In addition, this workshop is the second in a series of training
workshops provided by the OAS Cyber-Crime Training Program that are
specifically directed to Judges, Magistrates and the members of the
judicial branch in the OAS Member States, with similar events to be
carried out during 2015 for other sub-regions and Member States of the
OAS. For more information visit the Inter-American
Cooperation Portal on Cyber-Crime.
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