International
Conference on Refugees and International Law:
The
Challenge of Protection
Friday
15th & Saturday 16th December 2006
Oxford,
United Kingdom
Lecture Theatre,
Manor Road Building, Manor Road, Oxford
Refugee protection
has undergone numerous developments. The increase in the numbers of refugees and
internally displaced persons (IDPs) over past decades and the responses by
States pose new challenges to protection under international law. The Refugee
Studies Centre wishes to provide a forum to identify and address challenges to
refugee protection from the perspective of the individual as a subject of rights
in international law. This initiative aims to enhance the understanding of the
complex issues that arise from current challenges to protection and to
facilitate collective intellectual efforts in this field, contributing to the
development of creative solutions.
Further
information is available at: http://refugeelaw.qeh.ox.ac.uk/
This Conference
marks the beginning of events organised to commemorate the 25th Anniversary of the
Refugee Studies Centre. The RSC wishes to promote the debate among academics,
governments, international organisations, NGOs, practitioners, policy-makers and
others on issues of refugee protection by bringing discussions on refugee
protection within the broader framework of related areas of international law,
including international human rights law and international humanitarian
law.
Further details
and registration forms are available at: http://refugeelaw.qeh.ox.ac.uk/events
Key
speakers include:
Professor Guy
Goodwin-Gill, Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford.
Professor Walter
Kälin, Representative of the UN Secretary-General on the human rights of
internally displaced persons, and Member of the UN Human Rights
Committee.
Call for
papers:
Papers are invited
on issues of refugee protection under international law, including on
institutional arrangements for the protection of forced migrants; the refugee as
a subject of international law; interception and protection/non-refoulement in
the high seas; protection/non-refoulement in situations of armed
conflict/occupation; responsibility of States and International Organisations;
and the exercise of extraterritorial State jurisdiction.
Please send
abstracts (200 words maximum) together with your registration form by 21 August
to Dr Marķa-Teresa Gil-Bazo at: [log in to unmask]
Further details and registration forms are available at: http://refugeelaw.qeh.ox.ac.uk/events
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