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International Conference on Refugees and International Law: The Challenge of Protection Friday 15th & Saturday 16th December 2006 Lecture Theatre, Manor Road Building Manor Road, Oxford, OX1 3UQ Friday 15 December 9:00 – 9:15 Registration & Coffee 9:15 – 10:00 Opening session Prof Barbara Harris-White, QEH Director Prof Roger Zetter, RSC Director Dr María-Teresa Gil-Bazo, University Research Lecturer in International Refugee and Human Rights Law, RSC 10:00 – 11:00 Keynote Speech: Extra-Territorial Processing of Asylum Claims from a General International Law Perspective Professor Guy Goodwin-Gill, All Souls College, Oxford 11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break 11:30 – 13:00 Plenary: Transnational policies and legal implications Joint Interception of Asylum Seekers in the Mediterranean Sea: Responsibility Issues at Stake Gregor Noll, Professor of Public International Law, University of Lund, Sweden Human rights without borders? Extraterritorial state actions and the applicability of human rights law Dr Ralph Wilde, Reader in Public International Law, UCL, London, UK 13:00 – 14:30 Lunch 14:30 – 16:00 Concurrent Panels • Panel 1: State obligations in transnational cooperation The Use of Diplomatic Assurances and the Prevention of Prohibited Treatment Nina Larsaeus, Legal Counsellor, The Migration Court, Stockholm, Sweden [the views expressed are those of the author and they do not necessarily reflect those of the organisation] Whose Responsibility?: Refugees, Migrants and the Prevention of Torture and Ill-Treatment Loveday Hodson, Lecturer in Law, University of Leicester • Panel 2: Cooperation between States: Refugee Protection in the European Union The cultural divide in refugee law: a comparison of the French and British judiciary, Hélène Lambert, Lecturer, Brunel University The Dublin Regulation vs the European Convention of Human Rights – A Non-Issue or a Precarious Legal Balancing Act? Christian Filzwieser, Independent Federal Asylum Senate, Austria Temporary Protection Directive: is the high level of rights and benefits for persons enjoying temporary protection reflected in national transposition measures: the Netherlands and Germany as an example, Karina Franssen, Centre for Migration Law, Faculty of Law, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands New Approaches to Transcontinental Cooperation on Migration: What Consequences for Refugee Rights?, Luis Peral, Coordinador, Programa de Prevención y Resolución de Conflictos, Centro Internacional de Toledo para la Paz (CITpax), Spain 16:00 – 16:30 Tea Break 16:30 – 18:00 • Panel 1: Refugee Protection and International Criminal Law Forced Displacement in International Criminal Law Annabel Mwangi and Aimée Comrie Trafficking and Smuggling of Refugees from a Human Rights Perspective Tom Obokata, Queen’s University Belfast • Panel 2: Protection in situations of armed conflict and occupation Challenges of protection: children, the future, and unchartered IHL Amelia Bookstein (and Ada Williams), Head of Humanitarian Policy, Save the Children UK The principle of non-refoulement of refugees in situations of armed conflict or occupation Professor Pablo Antonio Fernández Sánchez, Universidad de Huelva, Spain The Status of Palestinian Refugees in International Law: Ongoing Displacement and the Lack of Protection, Lena El-Malak, PhD Candidate in International Law, SOAS, University of London 20:00 Conference Dinner Saturday 16 December 9:30 – 11:00 Keynote Speech: The Emerging Global State and the Global Refugee Problem: Normative Models, Refugee Studies and Institutions Professor Bhupinder S. Chimni, Vice-Chancellor, The WB National University of Juridical Sciences, Calcutta, 11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break 11:30 – 13:00 Keynote Speech: UNHCR’s Responses to Protection Georges Okoth-Obbo, Director of UNHCR Division of International Protection 13:00 – 14:30 Lunch 14:30 – 16:00 Concurrent Panels • Panel 1: Institutional responses to the protection of IDPs Extending Rights Within Borders: IDP Protection and the International Society, Maria Beatriz B. Nogueira, Research Assistant, Law Department, London School of Economics The role of National Human Rights Institutions in the protection of Internally Displaced Persons following humanitarian disasters: the response of the National Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka in the aftermath of the December 2004 tsunami, Naresh Perinpanayagam, Human Rights Officer, OHCHR, Geneva Human rights-based approach to humanitarian assistance – a tool to empower internally displaced women? Päivi Koskinen, Institute for Human Rights, Åbo Akademi University, Finland • Panel 2: Global Governance Displacement, Institutional Development and the Normative Environment: The Case of the League of Nations and United Nations, Phil Orchard, University of British Columbia, Canada A Nested Regime: the Global Refugee Regime as Embedded in Other Issue-Areas of Global Governance Alexander Betts Return in dignity: A neglected protection challenge Megan Bradley, D.Phil student, Dept. of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford/International Development Research Centre (IDRC) 16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break 16:30 – 17:00 Closing session ============================================================ Scientific Committee: Dr María-Teresa Gil-Bazo, Dr Matthew Gibney Administration: Ms Narola Das Assistance: Ms Maria Beatriz Bonna Nogueira, Mr Maher Bitar E-mail: [log in to unmask] Further information: http://refugeelaw.qeh.ox.ac.uk/ REGISTRATION: If you wish to attend this Conference and haven’t registered yet, you may do so by submitting a completed registration form by 1 December 2006 to [log in to unmask] Registration forms are available at: http://refugeelaw.qeh.ox.ac.uk/pdfs/registration-form-june-2006.doc Payment should be made by the same date (1 December 2006) at the following address: http://www.oxforduniversityshops.co.uk/store/shop/products.asp?func=prodvar&compid=9&deptid=36&prodtypeid=17&prodID=57 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Note: The material contained in this communication comes to you from the Forced Migration Discussion List which is moderated by the Refugee Studies Centre (RSC), University of Oxford. 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