June/July Events

June and July promise to be busy months with summer courses, conferences, and other international events. Here's a partial listing.

The Centre for Refugee Studies' annual Summer Course on Refugee Issues is scheduled for 10-18 June 2006. Topics and more information are provided here.

The Canadian Council for Refugees' International Refugee Rights Conference will be held 17-19 June 2006 in Toronto, somewhat overlapping with IASFM10. The aim is for NGOs to examine the state of refugee protection and to "agree on strategies to ensure that NGOs work together more effectively across borders to protect the rights of refugees." More information is available at the conference web site.

Hosted by the Centre for Refugee Studies (CRS), the 10th biennial conference of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM) will take place in 18-22 June 2006 in Toronto. A preliminary schedule for the conference has just been posted. Some speakers are yet to be confirmed, but the opening plenary session will focus on "the state of forced migration studies" and will be delivered by James Hathaway (Refugee and Asylum Law Program, University of Michigan) and Zachary Lomo (Refugee Law Project, Makerere University). Plenary sessions for subsequent days will address IDPs, North-South dialogues on forced migration, Canadian issues, and migration-asylum dialogues.

World Refugee Day is June 20th. This year's theme is "Keeping the Flame of Hope Alive." To learn about commemorative events in your country, visit UNHCR's information page.

The American University in Cairo's Forced Migration & Refugee Studies Program is offering several short courses in June and July. Descriptions are provided online.
- 18-22 June 2006: Responding to Refugee Women at Risk - From the Camp to the United Nations
- 26 June-July 1, 2006: Meeting the Psychosocial Needs of Refugees
- 2-8 July 2006: International Refugee and Human Rights Law

The Odysseus Network hosts its 2006 Summer School on European Union Law and Policy on Immigration and Asylum from 3-14 July 2006 at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Check the programme for more information.

The Refugee Studies Centre (RSC) offers its International Summer School in Forced Migration from 3-21 July 2006 in Oxford. For a description of the programme and its objectives, go to the RSC home page, hover over "Teaching" in the left-hand navigation menu, and select "Summer School."

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