Refugee Conference 2011

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Refugee Conference 2011 episodes

May 02, 2019 Confronting Refugee Myths
With a Federal election looming, Associate Professor Jane McAdam from the Faculty of Law's International Refugee and Migration Law Project dispels some common misconceptions about asylum seekers.
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May 01, 2019 2011 Refugee Conference - Senator Kate Lundy
Senator Kate Lundy, Parliamentary Secretary for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, addresses the 2011 Refugee Conference at UNSW.
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March 04, 2015 UNSWTVCOLLECTIONSREFUGEE.pdf
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April 18, 2014 Eileen Pittaway: Innocent victims, Illegal migrants or political pawns?
Refugees escape from persecution, conflict, death threats and
torture. The majority of refugee women and girls survive rape and sexual
abuse in transit and in camps. Boys and girls are taken as child
soldiers. Refugee camps are dangerous and services are inadequate to
fulfil basic needs. Despite this, refugees fight to maintain their
dignity, their families, their communities and their culture. They do
this in the face of often insurmountable problems. Refugees bring an
enormous and diverse range of skills and capacities to camps and on
resettlement, but the structure of service provision often ‘de
capacitates’ rather than recognise this. The rhetoric of self
sustainability is empty when refugees are denied the right to work, and
the most fundamental civil rights.
Little of the refugee experience is known in the developed world. The
discourse of “border protection” silences their voices. Instead of
compassion, and the recognition of their rights they are treated as
pariahs, as illegal immigrants. We will examine the implication of this
for countries such as Australia. We will suggest how this can be
reversed so that refugee rights and dignity can be upheld and host
countries can benefit from the skills and capacities which refugees
bring with them. We will discuss how the work of the UNSW Centre for
Refugee research is contributing to this change.
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April 17, 2014 Bolivia: Leaving the land
Climate induced migration is not just happening to low-lying islands.
The catastrophic drought means thousands of Bolivians are simply
walking away from their homes and land for cities already suffering from
water shortages.

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July 27, 2011 2011 Refugee Conference - Conference Opening
Opening of the 2011 UNSW Refugee Conference - "Looking to the Future, Learning from the Past".
Host: Dr Eileen Pittaway, Centre for Refugee Research, UNSW
Welcome to Country: Dennis Golding, Nura Gili, UNSW
Welcome to UNSW: Professor James Donald,
Dean Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Welcome to UNHCR Commemorations: Richard Towle, Regional Representative UNHCR Regional Office for Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific
Welcome to the Refugee Conference 2011: John Gibson, President of the Board,
Refugee Council of Australia

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July 08, 2011 2011 Refugee Conference - Prof Jane McAdam in conversation with Dr Jeff Crisp.
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.

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July 06, 2011 2011 Refugee Conference - Personal Stories

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.

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July 02, 2011 2011 Refugee Conference - Dr Melika Yassin Sheikh-Eldin
Dr Melika Yassin Sheikh-Eldin, AMES, addresses the 2011 Refugee Conference at UNSW
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July 01, 2011 2011 Refugee Conference - Closing Address
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

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