Law and Society

Excerpt from Professor Lynn Stout interview

Professor Jane McAdam, Faculty of Law, UNSW will be in conversation with Dr Jeff Crisp, Head, Policy Development and Evaluation Services UNHCR Geneva who will discuss International Refugee Protection: Reflections on the role of UNHCR in the context of the 60th Anniversary of the Refugee Convention.

From the 2011 Refugee Conference at UNSW.

Personal Stories from Six Decades of Refugee Protection

Six refugees who arrived in Australia over the six decades since the ratification of the Refugee Convention tell stories of their journeys to safety in Australia, bringing personal perspectives on refugee movements from Eastern Europe, Latin America, South-East and South-West Asia and Africa. 

This event was organised by the Refugee Council of Australia in memory of Kenneth Deakin Rivett (1923-2004), a founding member of the Refugee Council and the Australian Refugee Foundation, a committed advocate for immigration reform and an Associate Professor in economics at the UNSW.

Dr Melika Yassin Sheikh-Eldin, AMES, addresses the 2011 Refugee Conference at UNSW

Closing address of the 2011 UNSW Refugee Conference - "Looking to the Future, Learning from the Past".

Speakers:

•    Cheery Zahua
•    Paul Power, CEO Refugee Council of Australia
•    Dr Jeff Crisp, Head, Policy Development and Evaluation Services UNHCR

Session 2 of the 2011 Refugee Conference at UNSW

Civil society/refugee responses to camp situations in Thailand.

Civil society engagement with urban refugees in Malaysia.

A refugee perspective on the difficulty of not having refugee status, gaining protection and accessing UNHCR.

Speakers: Sally Thompson and Renuka Balasubraminiam

Four refugees of very different backgrounds - from Burma, Iraq, Sudan and Liberia -- tell of what brought them to Australia and the lives they now lead. Filmed as part of the international 2011 Refugee Conference hosted by UNSW.

United States Ambassador Jeffrey Bleich gives the Australian Human Rights Centre Annual Public Lecture; his topic: The United States and Australia's Commitment to Human Rights in the Asia-Pacific.

Jeffrey Bleich became the United States Ambassador to Australia in 2009.

On any night in Australia there will be 100,000 homeless people. Marion Downey speaks with Dr Lucy Burns from the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre about the medical needs of this marginalised section of society, particularly those with a dependency on drugs and/or alcohol.

In a month-long program, indigenous students get to road test life in the legal profession.