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This is a recording of a webinar held on 4 June 2020, co-hosted by the International Law Association (Australia) and the Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law. What is changing in the so-called ‘new normal’, and what does it mean for the legal landscape facing refugees, people seeking asylum and other forced migrants? Find out when two preeminent legal minds discuss the key i...

The everyday lives of Australians have changed dramatically, as we try to protect each other from coronavirus. But while the message is that we are ‘all in this together’, the policy responses to this pandemic are playing out with specific, and often severe, consequences for the tens of thousands of people here on precarious visas. This is a recording of a Kaldor Centre webinar held on 14 May 2020...

Podcast- Sexual orientation, gender Identity and asylum by UNSW Kaldor Centre

For more information on the Kaldor Centre Conference 2019 ‘Good decisions: Achieving fairness in refugee law, policy and practice’: https://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/node/2039

For more information on the Kaldor Centre Conference 2019 ‘Good decisions: Achieving fairness in refugee law, policy and practice’: https://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/node/2039

For more information on the Kaldor Centre Conference 2019 ‘Good decisions: Achieving fairness in refugee law, policy and practice’: https://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/node/2039

For more information on the Kaldor Centre Conference 2019 ‘Good decisions: Achieving fairness in refugee law, policy and practice’: https://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/node/2039

Senior Research Fellow Dr Claire Higgins from UNSW’s Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law takes and an in-depth look at one form of complementary pathways: protected entry. In this podcast, Dr Higgins examines the evidence of how, when and why protected-entry procedures work, drawing lessons from around the world.

Refugee Rights and Policy Wrongs Book Launch 2 July 2019 by UNSW Kaldor Centre

UNSW Chancellor, David Gonski AC, launches the Kaldor Centre Principles for Australian Refugee Policy - a new, evidence-based framework for a principled and pragmatic refugee policy, presented by Professor Jane McAdam.

Recorded 13 February 2019 Saudi teen Rahaf al Qunun captured world attention when she barricaded herself in a Bangkok hotel room and claimed asylum. Within days, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) had determined she was a refugee and Canada rapidly offered to resettle her. Between 2015 and 2017, Australia resettled a ‘special intake’ of 12,000 Syrian and Iraqi refugees. This was a different, but no les...

For more on the Kaldor Centre Conference 2018 'Refugee Diplomacy: Negotiating protection in a changing world': www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/node/1779

For more on the Kaldor Centre Conference 2018 'Refugee Diplomacy: Negotiating protection in a changing world': www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/node/1779

For more on the Kaldor Centre Conference 2018 'Refugee Diplomacy: Negotiating protection in a changing world': www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/node/1779

For more on the Kaldor Centre Conference 2018 'Refugee Diplomacy: Negotiating protection in a changing world': https://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/node/1779

For more on the Kaldor Centre Conference 2018 'Refugee Diplomacy: Negotiating protection in a changing world': https://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/node/1779

He came to Canada at 16, a Somali seeking asylum, and now Ahmed Hussen is the country’s Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship. On 31 August 2018, this lawyer, refugee and national leader spoke at UNSW’s Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, sharing his singular insights into Canada’s efforts to successfully integrate new citizens.

Evidence matters. Yet even before “fake news” became a political weapon, it’s been notoriously difficult to get evidence into the policymaking process. How can we keep good evidence from being overwhelmed by bad politics? In this conversation, moderated by ABC Radio National journalist Eleanor Hall, three world-renowned experts talk about their experience from the front lines of research and polic...

Ordinary citizens around the world are coming together to sponsor refugees, an experience that can transform individual lives and strengthen communities. As Australia is now shaping its own refugee private sponsorship initiative, it’s a critical time to learn from international best practice. Dr Russell Rook, a leading international expert, shares his experience in developing the UK’s community-le...

Compassion and strong borders are not mutually exclusive, Scientia PhD scholar and Kaldor Centre affiliate Regina Jefferies told FBi Radio’s Backchat program on Saturday, 23 June. Listen to the interview, which canvasses the logic of deterrence policies and the facts around refugee policies in both the United States and Australia.

Ai Weiwei’s Law of the Journey, 2017, an imposing installation featuring a 60-metre-long boat crowded with hundreds of anonymous refugee figures, provokes this frank discussion of Australia’s response to asylum seekers arriving by boat – and today’s approach to refugees globally. What is the relevance of the 1951 Refugee Convention when more people have been forced to flee their homes now than at...

“If you were still a legal adviser to a country … would you recommend your government sign the Global Compact for Refugees as currently is drafted?” asks Alex Aleinikoff, Director of the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility, of the Kaldor Centre’s Professor Guy S Goodwin-Gill. Hear the answer in this discussion about the historical promise of the refugee protection system, where it has fall...

Is Australia responsible for asylum seekers sent to Nauru and Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island? Questions of liability – civil, criminal and political – are at the heart of this podcast conversation between the Kaldor Centre’s acting Director, Professor Guy S. Goodwin-Gill, and Alex Aleinikoff, the Director of The New School’s Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility in New York.

Policy Brief 6: Making the Global Compacts Work: What future for refugees and migrants? by UNSW Kaldor Centre

On the 17 April 2018, UNSW’s Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law co-hosted with Macquarie University Law School and the Australian Institute for International Affairs NSW the event entitled 'Refugee Deterrence and Diplomacy: How states influence each other's asylum policies'. As global displacement reaches its highest recorded levels, many governments around the world are seeking not to we...