The Challenge of Protection 2006
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Refugee protection has undergone numerous developments. The increase in the numbers of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) over past decades and the responses by States pose new challenges to protection under international law.
The Refugee Studies Centre wished to provide a forum to identify and address challenges to refugee protection from the perspective of the individual as a subject of rights in international law. This initiative enhanced the understanding of the complex issues that arise from current challenges to protection and to facilitate collective intellectual efforts in this field, contributing to the development of creative solutions.
Within this framework, this Conference marked the beginning of events organised to commemorate the 25th Anniversary of the Refugee Studies Centre. The RSC promoted the debate among academics, governments, international organisations, NGOs, practitioners, policy-makers and others on issues of refugee protection by brining discussions on refugee protection within the broader framework of related areas of international law, including international human rights law and international humanitarian law. You can download the full Programme (PDF file) or see the "Papers" section of this webpage for the Conference papers.
Key speakers included:
Professor Guy Goodwin-Gill, Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford
Professor Bhupinder S. Chimni, Professor of International Law, Jawaharlal University, New Delhi
Georges Okoth-Obbo, Director of UNHCR Division of International Protection
Papers
FMO hosts thousands of documents and other resources related to refugee and human rights law, and other forced migration issues. More specifically these include:
Back runs (in full text) to view, print or download of the five key journals in the field, including International Journal of Refugee Law.
FMO also hosts a digital library containing over 200,000 pages of documents in full text. These can be browsed or searched. In addition FMO contains a searchable database of organizations.
Papers submitted to Refugees and International Law Forum
This section gathers papers that have been shared by contributors to the debate generated by this project.
If you would like to participate, please send us a paper to: fmo@qeh.ox.ac.uk
Conference Papers: Refugees and International Law, 15-16 December 2006
Conference Papers - Abstracts
Alexander Betts, Rose Research Fellow in International Relations, Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford
'Conceptualising the Role of Interconnections between Issue-Areas of Global Governance: The Case of Refugee Protection'
December 2006
Megan Bradley, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford/International Development Research Centre (IDRC) 'Return in dignity: A neglected protection challenge' January 2007
Christian Filzwieser, Independent Federal Asylum Senate, Austria
'The Dublin Regulation vs the European Convention of Human Rights – A Non-Issue or a Precarious Legal Balancing Act?'
December 2006
Pablo Antonio Fernández Sánchez, Universidad de Huelva, Spain
'The principle of non-refoulement of refugees in situations of armed conflict or occupation'
December 2006
Päivi Koskinen, Institute for Human Rights, Åbo Akademi University, Finland
'Human rights-based approach to humanitarian assistance – a tool to empower internally displaced women?'
December 2006
Phil Orchard, University of British Columbia, Canada
'Displacement, Institutional Development and the Normative Environment: The Case of the League of Nations and United Nations'
December 2006
Tom Obokata, Queen’s University Belfast
'Trafficking and Smuggling of Refugees from a Human Rights Perspective'
December 2006
Nina Larsaeus, The Migration Court, Stockholm, Sweden
'The Use of Diplomatic Assurances and the Prevention of Prohibited Treatment'
October 2006
Ralph Wilde
‘Legal "Black Hole"? Extraterritorial State Action and International Treaty Law on Civil and Political Rights’
(2005) 26 Michigan Journal of International Law 739-806.
Other relevant papers
Amnesty International, EU Office
'EU Regional Protection Programs: Enhancing Protection in the Region or Barring Access to the EU Territory?'
September 2005
Susan Kneebone, 'The Legal and Ethical Implications of Extra-territorial Processing of Asylum Seekers: the Safe Third Country Concept', Paper presented to the 'Moving On: Forced Migration and Human Rights' Conference, Sydney, 22 November 2005.
Papers available in full text elsewhere online:
ECRE
‘Guarding Refugee Protection Standards in Regions of Origin’, The Way
Forward Europe’s Role in the Global Refugee Protection System, 2005
ECRE
'Towards Fair and Efficient Asylum Systems in Europe', The Way Forward
Europe’s Role in the Global Refugee Protection System, 2005.
Presentation by Erika Feller, Director of International Protection, UNHCR;
At the ‘Moving On: Forced Migration and Human Rights’ conference, NSW Parliament House,
Sydney, Australia, 22 November 2005.
María-Teresa Gil-Bazo
'Refugee status, subsidiary protection, and the right to be granted asylum under EC law', New Issues in Refugee Research, Research Paper No. 136, UNHCR, November 2006.
María-Teresa Gil-Bazo
'The Practice of Mediterranean States in the context of the European Union’s Justice and Home Affairs External Dimension. The Safe Third Country Concept Revisited' (2006) 18 International Journal of Refugee Law (571-600).
Ruma Mandal
‘Protection Mechanisms Outside of the 1951 Convention (“Complementary Protection”)’
UNHCR-DIP, June 2005
Jane McAdam
‘Humane Rights: The Refugee Convention as a Blueprint for Complementary Protection Status’
Paper presented at ‘Moving On: Forced Migration and Human Rights’ Conference (NSW Parliament House, 22 November 2005)
Gregor Noll
‘Diplomatic Assurances and the Silence of Human Rights Law’
(2006) forthcoming in 7 Melbourne Journal of International Law
Luis Peral,
‘EU Protection Scheme for Refugees in the Region of Origin: Problems of Conditionality and Coherence’
Paper presented at the European Society of International Law Research Forum 2005
Other relevant published papers
Cecilia Bailliet
'Assessing Jus Ad Bellum and Jus In Bello within the Refugee Status
Determination Process: Contemplations on Conscientious Objectors Seeking
Asylum' (2206) 20 Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 337-384
Cecilia Bailliet
'The Tampa Case and its Impact on Burden Sharing at Sea' (2003) 25 Human Rights Quarterly 741-774
Helene Lambert
‘The EU Asylum Qualification Directive, its Impact on the Jurisprudence of the United Kingdom and International Law’
(2005) 55 International and Comparative Law Quarterly 161–-192.
Gregor Noll
’Visions of the Exceptional: Legal and Theoretical Issues Raised by Transit
Processing Centres and Protection Zones’
(200 (2003) 5 European Journal of Migration and Law 303-342.
