COVID-19 and 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? How are human-rights-based laws designed to protect people holding up under the pressure of a global public health crisis? Once the virus subsides, how do we ensure that regressive laws are not ‘baked in’ and that the social and economic impacts of the pandemic on the most vulnerable people are addressed? Scientia Professor Jane McAdam and Assistant Secretary-General Gillian Triggs discuss the key issues.

All in this together? The pandemic, people seeking asylum, and refugees in Australia

The everyday lives of Australians have changed dramatically in the past two months, 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.

Podcast: Sexual orientation, gender identity and asylum

Despite landmark legal changes in Australia and elsewhere recognising equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) people, many countries continue to criminalise and demonise the everyday lives of LGBTIQ people. Claiming asylum in a Western liberal democracy on the basis of sexual orientation and/or gender identity can be fraught. Listen to this special panel event offering Australian and global perspectives on refugee protection for LGBTIQ people.

Podcast: Conference 2019 - Year in Review

On 26 November 2019, the Kaldor Centre hosted its sixth annual conference, entitled ‘Good decisions: Achieving fairness in refugee law, policy and practice.' Acting Director Professor Guy Goodwin Gill opened the conference with this Year in Review presentation.

Podcast: Conference 2019 - Toward 'fair, transparent and protection-sensitive' credibility judgments

On 26 November 2019, the Kaldor Centre hosted its sixth annual conference, entitled 'Good decisions: Achieving fairness in refugee law, policy and practice'. This keynote address was presented by Dr Hilary Evans Cameron, a former litigator who represented refugee claimants for a decade. She holds a doctorate in refugee law from the University of Toronto, where she is a lecturer in the Ethics, Society and Law Program, in addition to being an Adjunct Professor at Osgood Hall Law School. It is entitled "Toward 'fair, transparent and protection-sensitive' credibility judgments."

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