Newsletter - January 2010

Editorial

Welcome to the first issue of the newsletter of the Department of International Law of the Organization of American States (OAS). We want to begin the year by launching this new initiative, given the great interest shown both within and outside the Organization regarding the recent work of our Department. We intend the newsletter to serve as a tool for disseminating both recent activities and those to take place in the near future, and it will be distributed on a quarterly basis.

Beginning last year, our Department added to its traditional line of activities (providing legal counsel to the various organs and bodies of the Organization and promoting international law – both public and private-), the execution of various projects to strengthen civil society in response to specific needs.

In this issue you will find information on our work in such diverse areas as access to public information, indigenous peoples, access to justice, family law, people of African descent, International Criminal Court, international humanitarian law, refugees, as well as activities that have become traditional for us: the Course on International Law and the Workshops on International Law.

We trust that this newsletter will help us strengthen even further our relations with each of you and that each of you will help us, with your suggestions, to convert this newsletter into another means to disseminate international law and the Inter-American System.

On behalf of all of us in the Department, we wish you a happy 2010 and hope that you enjoy our publication.

Dante M. Negro
Director
Department of International Law - OAS

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