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Join leading researchers on climate mobility in Africa as they discuss they launch of the new Climate Mobility Africa Insights publication series. Developed and published by the Climate Mobility Africa Research Network (CMARN), with the generous support of Robert Bosch Stiftung and the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, Insights aims to advance evidence-based law and policy responses to...

In June 2023, as the last refugee in Nauru was flown back to Australia, the United Kingdom's attempts to introduce an Australian-style offshore processing policy were dealt a blow in the UK courts. The UK had tried to transfer asylum seekers to Rwanda to have their claims for protection processed there. The British policy reflects that which Australia has operated since 2012, sending people who ca...

Forced to flee Bhutan as a refugee, Om Dhungel is today an award-winning community leader in Western Sydney and a debut author, whose new book is described by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese as simply ‘a great Australian story’. This special panel event was held on 18 May 2023, with Om Dhungel and CEO of Settlement Services International (SSI) Violet Roumeliotis AM, in conversation exploring what...

Scientia Professor Jane McAdam AO talks to Julia Morris about her new book, 'Asylum and Extraction in the Republic of Nauru' on 23 February 2023. This book provides an extraordinary glimpse into Nauru’s offshore processing arrangement and its impact on islanders, workforces, and migrant populations. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Nauru, Australia, and Geneva, as well as the archives of the Brit...

UNSW’s Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law and Refugee Advice and Casework Service (RACS) co-hosted a discussion held on 9 February 2023 with Behrouz Boochani, as he concluded his first visit to Australia. The discussion explored Behrouz’s complicated path to freedom, and the role of courage, collaboration and creativity in challenging a dehumanising asylum system. The first part of the pa...

A panel event recording from the 2022 Kaldor Centre Conference, 'Turning points: New directions in refugee protection' held on 17 November 2022. As asylum processes are shifted offshore, how can governments be held accountable for the treatment of refugees and asylum seekers beyond their borders? Join Behrouz Boochani (Author and journalist); Itamar Mann (University of Haifa); Anna Talbot (Kaldor...

A panel event recording from the 2022 Kaldor Centre Conference, 'Turning points: New directions in refugee protection' held on 17 November 2022. How can we create a more constructive public conversation about refugees? Join Barat Ali Batoor (Photojournalist); Tom Hashemi (Cast from Clay); Amanda Ripley (Journalist and author); and Chair: Lauren Martin (Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law)

A panel event recording from the 2022 Kaldor Centre Conference, 'Turning points: New directions in refugee protection' held on 16 November 2022. Does the Global North’s response to people fleeing Ukraine signal a renewed commitment to international protection, or a turn towards more geographically proximate and time-bound responses? Join Arif Hussein (Refugee Advice and Casework Service); Yulia Io...

A panel event recording from the 2022 Kaldor Centre Conference, 'Turning points: New directions in refugee protection' held on 16 November 2022. What practical actions can advance the meaningful participation of refugees in representative decision-making? Join Mustafa Alio (R-SEAT); Sana Ali Mustafa (Asylum Access); Najeeba Wazefadost (Asia Pacific Network of Refugees); Fiona Whiteridge (Refugee a...

Recording from the opening panel event at the 2022 Kaldor Centre Conference, 'Turning points: New directions in refugee protection' held on 15 November 2022. How has COVID-19 transformed access to protection, assistance and the lives of those already living in precarious situations – for better and for worse? Join Adrian Edwards (UNHCR Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific); Roshni Shanker (Migra...

Kaldor Centre Director, Scientia Professor Jane McAdam AO, delivers the opening keynote address entitled, 'Turning points in international protection: onwards and upwards, or u-turns and roundabouts?' at the 2022 Kaldor Centre Conference held on 15 November 2022 and reflects on the major disruptive events we have faced in recent times, and their implications for the future of refugee protection.

Students who have experienced displacement share their experience of university life and tips on how others can show support and solidarity. This free Diversity Fest 2022 event at UNSW Sydney was hosted by the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law on 27 October 2022.

Refugee Advice and Casework Service (RACS) Centre Director, Sarah Dale, and Kaldor Centre Deputy Director, Daniel Ghezelbash, in a conversation about the issues currently facing refugees in Australia. This is a recording of a seminar held on World Refugee Day 20 June 2022.

A livestream panel event held on 24 May 2022 in the wake of the Australian federal election. Author and journalist David Marr leads a discussion about Australia’s refugee policy, with Kaldor Centre Director Jane McAdam AO, author Abbas Nazari, and Guardian Australia journalist Ben Doherty. Abbas Nazari's memoir, 'After the Tampa: From Afghanistan to New Zealand' is published by Allen & Unwin and a...

As war rages in Ukraine, Europe and other countries are taking unusually quick action to support the millions of civilians fleeing their now-threatened homes. UNSW Kaldor Centre Honorary Professor Guy S Goodwin-Gill has been a leading voice on refugee issues since the first edition of his book, 'The Refugee in International Law', now in its Fourth Edition, co-authored by Jane McAdam with Emma Dunl...

A Kaldor Centre Virtual Conference 2021 key panel session held on 20 October 2021. What do we know, how do we know it, and what more do we need to know to inform policies on climate change, disasters and mobility? When the issues are as contested as climate and migration, a key challenge is simply agreeing on transparent, credible, actionable data. Hear from Vicente Anzellini, Internal Displacemen...

A Kaldor Centre Virtual Conference 2021 key panel session held on 21 October 2021. Sometimes the impacts of disasters and climate change mean that whole areas may become unsafe to live in. Communities may be faced with the prospect of relocation. But who decides – to move at all, and if so, where? Planned relocations traverse a complicated cultural, legal and land title landscape. What does a ‘suc...

A Kaldor Centre Virtual Conference key panel session held on 19 October 2021. When people are on the move from the impacts of disasters or climate change, how does the law help or hinder them? Is refugee law useful? Human rights law? Migration law? What about regional free movement agreements? How is individual agency enhanced or eroded by legal frameworks? What about people who move but don’t cro...

This event was held on 9 November 2021, to launch the fourth edition of 'The Refugee in International Law', by Guy S Goodwin-Gill and Jane McAdam(together with Emma Dunlop). In this podcast, Guy S Goodwin-Gill and Emma Dunlop discuss the practice of refugee law today, in a discussion with Arif Hussein of the Refugee Advice and Casework Service (RACS). How is refugee status determined around the wo...

This opening panel at the Kaldor Centre Virtual Conference 2021: 'Whose move? Addressing migration and displacement in the face of climate change', was held on Tuesday 19 October, 2021. In this panel, experts set out the key questions and principles that should guide responses to mobility in the face of climate change. Hear from Rabab Fatima, Ambassador of Bangladesh to the United Nations; Andrew...

A Kaldor Centre Conference 2021: 'Whose move? Addressing migration and displacement in the face of climate change', panel session held on 20 October 2021 AEDT. People fleeing disasters and the impacts of climate change often enter an unmapped legal landscape. Faced with legal gaps or overlaps, courts today are considering how laws may be shaped to unprecedented circumstances. Different jurisdictio...

A vital, virtual discussion about the principles and practice of academic research, led by emerging scholars with lived experience of displacement. This panel event was hosted by the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law and the Forced Migration Research Network at UNSW, and UNHCR’s Global Academic Interdisciplinary Network, on 7 October 2021. Introduced by GAIN Chair Professor Geoff Gilbert...

A Kaldor Centre Virtual Conference closing panel session held on 21 October 2021. 'How can we build support for people at risk of climate and disaster displacement, at COP26 and beyond?' Speakers: Nisreen Elsaim, UN Secretary General's Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change; Alex Randall, Climate and Migration Coalition; Koko Warner, UN Climate Change (UNFCCC); and Martijn Wilder, Pollination Grou...

This is the first of two launch events to celebrate the release of the fourth edition of 'The Refugee in International Law' by the Kaldor Centre's Guy S Goodwin-Gill and Jane McAdam (together with Emma Dunlop). On 29 September 2021, authors Guy S Goodwin-Gill and Jane McAdam AO reflected on the many issues confronting the global protection regime at this moment, in a conversation with Guardian Aus...

The Kaldor Centre's Lauren Martin talks to co-authors and Kaldor Centre affiliates, Erica Bower and Sanjula Weerasinghe about their latest report 'Leaving Place Restoring Home: Enhancing the Evidence Base on Planned Relocation Cases in the context of Hazards, Disasters, and Climate Change'. As hazards, disasters and climate change profoundly affect people’s lives and livelihoods, communities and a...