13 November 2025

Thematic Focus: Law/Policy Items - Pt. 1

Opportunities:

Call for proposals: Brill invites proposals for refugee law research books [info]
- No deadline indicated.

Webinar series: Non-signatory States in International Refugee Law, 30 September–15 December 2025 [info]
- Three-part series exploring themes presented in the a/m newly-published open access book. The third seminar on 25 November 2025 will focus on "Laws, Courts and Research."

Webinar: UNHCR at 75: Challenges and Opportunities, 26 November 2025 [info]

Short pieces:

Keynote Address, "Building bridges: Advancing refugee protection in a divided world," 2025 Kaldor Centre Conference, 23 Oct. 2025 [text]
- See also related UNSW news release

Refugee Protection in the Lens of Age: Towards an Age-Sensitive Approach (RLI Blog, Nov. 2025) [text]

Reports & book chapters: 

Judicial Well-being and Resilience Guidelines (International Association of Refugee and Migration Judges, Nov. 2025) [text]

Practical Guide on Free Legal Counselling (EU Agency for Asylum, Oct. 2025) [access]
- Follow link for the guide and an executive summary.

"Reading Climate into the Refugee Convention: Lessons from the Unfinished Business of Gender-Based Asylum," Chapter in Climate Change, Migration, Gender, and the Law (Edward Elgar, Forthcoming) [preprint]
- "This chapter traces the incomplete evolution of international refugee law with respect to protection claims related to gender. It examines the similarities and differences between such claims and the emerging area of climate-related displacement law and draws out lessons from the ongoing struggle to see gender as central to the notion of international protection."

Safeguarding protection, ensuring efficiency: quick processing of claims unlikely to succeed, Online, 25 June 2025 (Asylum Capacity Support Group, July 2025) [access]
- Follow link for meeting documents and the outcome report.

Strategic Approach to Strengthening National Asylum Systems (UNHCR, Oct. 2025) [access]
- Available in English and French.

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