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Expert Meetings
A variety of expert meetings is being organized, on topics such as statelessness, and climate change and displacement. These expert meetings are by invitation only. Relevant documents are posted below, and new ones will be added as they become available.
Expert Meeting on the Concept of Stateless Persons under International Law
27-28 May 2010, Prato, Italy
- Agenda
- Background Paper: UNHCR and De Facto Statelessness
- Summary Conclusions: The Concept of Stateless Persons under International Law
Expert Meeting on the Procedures for Determination of Statelessness
6-7 December 2010, Geneva, Switzerland
- Agenda
- Summary Conclusions: Statelessness Determination Procedures and the Status of Stateless Persons
Expert Meeting on Climate Change and Displacement
22-25 February 2011, Bellagio, Italy
- Agenda
- Concept Paper
- List of Participants
- Summary of deliberations
- Background paper: R. Zetter, Protecting Environmentally Displaced People: Developing the Capacity of Legal and Normative Frameworks, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, February 2011
- Climate Change and the Risk of Statelessness: The Situation of Low-lying Island States. Susin Park
- Climate Change Induced Displacement: Adaptation Policy in the Context of the UNFCCC Climate Negotiations. Koko Warner
- Climate Change Displacement and International Law: Complementary Protection Standards. Jane McAdam
Expert Meeting on the Complementarities Between International Refugee Law, International Criminal Law and International Human Rights Law
11-13 April 2011, Arusha, Tanzania
- Agenda
- List of Participants
- Concept Note
- Summary Conclusions
- UNHCR PPLA Series No. 21: Forced Displacement and International Crimes. Guido Acquaviva
- UNHCR PPLA Series No. 22: Exclusion at a Crossroads: The Interplay between International Criminal Law and Refugee Law in the Area of Extended Liability. Joseph Rikhof
Global Roundtable on Alternatives to Detention
11-12 May 2011, Geneva, Switzerland
UNHCR co-hosts global discussions on alternatives to the detention of asylum-seekers, refugees, migrants and the stateless.
- UNHCR urges states to avoid detaining asylum-seekers
- List of Participants: Global Roundtable on Alternatives to Detention, Geneva, 11-12 May 2011
- Agenda: Global Roundtable on Alternatives to Detention, Geneva, 11-12 May 2011
- No. 17: Back to Basics: The Right to Liberty and Security of Person and 'Alternatives to Detention' of Refugees, Asylum-Seekers, Stateless Persons and Other Migrants. Alice Edwards
- Concept Note: Global Roundtable on Alternatives to Detention, Geneva, 11-12 May 2011
- There are alternatives: A handbook for preventing unnecessary immigration detention, published by International Detention Coalition, 2011
- Summary Conclusions: Global Roundtable on Alternatives to Detention, Geneva, 11-12 May 2011
[Also available in French]
Expert Meeting on Preventing Statelessness among Children
23-24 May 2011, Dakar, Senegal
Expert Meeting on International Cooperation to Share Burden and Responsibilities
27-28 June 2011, Amman, Jordan
- Concept Note and Draft Agenda
- Discussion Paper
- Summary Conclusions
- Responses to Secondary Movements of Refugees: A Comparative Preliminary Study of State Practice in South Africa, Spain, and the USA
- Cooperative Arrangements to Share Burdens and Responsibilities in Refugee Situations short of Mass Influx
Expert Meeting on Refugees and Asylum-Seekers in Distress at Sea - How Best to Respond?
8-10 November 2011, Djibouti