Regional Focus: Americas

Events: 

Colóquio Internacional em Comemoração ao Trigésimo Aniversário da Declaração de Cartagena sobre Refugiados, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 31 October 2014 [info]
- A "Declaration by the Academia" will be presented at this event.

InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights, 23 October-7 November 2014 [info]
- Note: The full schedule is not yet available.

Publications:

"30 Años de la Declaración de Cartagena sobre Refugiados: Avances y Desafíos de la Protección de Refugiados en Latinoamérica," Agenda Internacional, Año XX, no. 31 (2013) [open access]

"African Migration to the United States: Assigned to the Back of the Bus," Chapter in Perspectives on the Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments of 1965 (Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming) [eprint via SSRN]

"Harmonizing Immigration Policy with National Foreign Policy: The Contradictions of the Material Support Bar," Albany Government Law Review, vol. 7, no. 2 (2014) [full-text]

Keeping the Door Open: NGOs & the New Refugee Claim Process in Canada (Canadian Council for Refugees, Oct. 2014) [text]

"The Refugee Convention and the Convention Against Torture: Failures of China and the United States," Global Studies Law Review, vol. 13, no. 2 (2014) [open access]

Refugees and Asylees: 2013 (U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security, Aug. 2014) [text]

"You Don’t Have Rights Here": US Border Screening and Returns of Central Americans to Risk of Serious Harm (Human Rights Watch, Oct. 2014) [text]

Multimedia:

Congolese Refugees Cry Out for Justice (Washington Post) [access]
- Follow link to access video report.

Desperate Journey: American Odysseys (IRIN) [access]
- Follow link to access documentary.

Related post:
- Regional Focus: Americas (6 Oct. 2014)

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