In May 2015, more than 5,000 Rohingya and Bangladeshis became stranded in the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea after people smugglers abandoned their boats and nearby countries refused to let them land.
With a goal that every refugee would have access to a lawyer, the global legal community committed this week to 125,000 pro bono hours for refugee legal aid, in an extraordinary collaborative pledge unveiled at the
With more than 2.6 million refugees in South Asia, Kaldor Centre experts last week joined a Roundtable of Legal Practitioners, to devise legal strategies and coordinate responses.
The Kaldor Centre is disappointed at today’s repeal of two important measures: the ‘medevac’ framework that provided an avenue for sick people to be brought to Australia from Nauru and Papua New Guinea (PNG) for urgent medical or psychiatric treatment or as
In the October-December 2019 issue of Australian Quarterly magazine, the Kaldor Centre’s Tristan Harley has published ‘Global Compact on Refugees: Opportunities for Australian reform and leadership?’.
Professor Guy S. Goodwin-Gill surveyed developments in refugee law and policy and the challenges ahead, as he welcomed guests to the Kaldor Centre Conference on 26 November 2019.
At a time when many around the world are fleeing their homes, seeking refugee protection has become a game of chance, says Dr Hilary Evans Cameron, keynote speaker at the upcoming
In an era of record forced migration, Kaldor Centre Senior Research Fellow Dr Claire Higgins has won a prestigious, highly competitive Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) to investigate policies that enable safe passage for refugees.
