February Meetings

Hosted by the Forced Migration & Refugee Studies Program at the American University in Cairo, the 11th IASFM conference starts Sunday and continues through the 10th. The theme of the conference is "Refugees and Forced Migration at the Crossroads: Forced Migration in a Changing World."

Looking ahead, several meetings are scheduled in February:

ICVA Conference 2008: The Essential Humanitarian Reforms, 1 February, Geneva [site] [programme/registration]
- Will focus on how to make the humanitarian community more effective.

ELENA International Course on Cessation and Exclusion Clauses, National Security and Non-Refoulement, 22-24 February, Athens [flyer]
- The "course will examine the exclusion and cessation clauses in the EC Qualification Directive in light of International Refugee and Human Rights law as well as recent developments in relation to the principle of non-refoulement. ..."

Dispossession and Displacement: Forced Migration in the Middle East and Africa, 28-29 February, London [site]
- "The conference will assess research on refugees and forced migration from Afghanistan in the East to Morocco in the West as well as Sudan to the South."

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