Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items - Pt. 1

Events & opportunities:

Call for participants: Refugee Protection in Countries That are Not Signatories to the 1951 Refugee Convention, Proposed roundtable discussion for the IASFM18, Accra, 27-30 June 2020 [info]
- No deadline indicated.

Seminar: Third World Approaches to International Law: A Retrospective with Some Implications for Refugee and Migration Law, Oxford, 4 December 2019 [info]

CFP: Special issue of the International Journal of Refugee Law to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees [info]
- Submission deadline is 30 April 2020.

Presentations/multimedia:

Assistant High Commissioner for Protection Statement to the 70th Session of the Executive Committee of the High Commissioner’s Programme, Geneva, 7-11 Oct. 2019 [text]
- See also related news story.

Forced Migration, Protection, and Border Control, CMS Annual Academic and Policy Symposium, New York, 17 Oct. 2019 [info]
- Follow link to access several presentations.

Future Challenges in Refugee Protection: Movements and Responses​, London, 17 Oct. 2019 [info]
- Panel discussion with participants from Univ. of Birmingham and UNHCR. Follow link for podcast.

Practicing Refugee Law on the Frontier: Refugee Law in Egypt, India, Malaysia and Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1 Feb. 2018 [info]
- Follow link for video.

A Well-Founded Fear of Being Persecuted...But When?, Cambridge, MA, 1 Oct. 2019 [info]
- Follow link for summary of the talk. See also related video interview.

Reports & blog posts:

2019 Compliance Update: Machine-Readable Convention Travel Documents for Refugees and Stateless Persons (UNHCR, 2019) [text]

Emergency Travel Document (ICRC, 2018) [text via Refworld]
- Note: The newly revised version began being issued as of 1 Jan. 2019.

Human Rights and International Solidarity: Note by the Secretary-General, UN Doc. No. A/74/185 (UN General Assembly, July 2019) [text]
- "In this report...the Independent Expert discusses the issues and problems raised in global refugee protection by the enjoyment, or lack thereof, of human rights-based international solidarity."

When Does Fear Become 'Well-Founded?'  (Jeffrey S. Chase Blog, Oct. 2019) [text]

Related posts:
- Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items - Pt. 1 (30 Sept. 2019)
- Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items - Pt. 2 (30 Sept. 2019)

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