Papers | Reports 11th world conference 2017
Day 1
DAY 1: WEDNESDAY, 29 NOVEMBER 2017
07:00 - 08:45 |
Conference Registration |
SESSION 1 | OPENING CEREMONIES AND WELCOME MESSAGES |
08:45 - 09:30 |
Chair: Ahmed Arbee, Chapter Head Africa Chapter |
08:45 - 09:00 |
Call to Order – Announcements |
09:00 - 09:15 |
Mr Ioannis Mouzalas, Minister of Migration Policy, Greece |
09:15 - 09:30 |
Judge Katelijne Declerck, President of the IARLJ |
SESSION 2 | KEYNOTE ADDRESSES |
09:30 - 10:10 |
'International protection and human mobility: legal principles and policy challenges' Mr Volker Türk, Assistant High Commissioner for Protection |
SESSION 3 | CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES IN THE CONTEXT OF REFUGEE AND MIGRATION LAW, A JUDICIAL PERSPECTIVE |
10:10 - 11:10 |
Chair: Kashim Zannah, High Court of Justice, Maiduguri, Nigeria and Vice-President of the IARLJ. Short bio |
10:10 - 10:30 |
Judge Lars Bay Larsen, Court of Justice of the European Union |
10:30 - 10:50 |
Judge Mogoeng Thomas Reetsang Mogoeng, Chief Justice of South Africa |
10:50 - 11:10 |
Justice Russel Zinn, Federal Court of Canada Short bio |
SESSION 4 | SECURITY ISSUES IN ASYLUM AND MIGRATION LITIGATIONS |
11:50 - 12:50 |
Chair: Johan Berg, Immigration Appeals Board, Norway |
11:50 - 12:10 |
Judge Sanji M. Monageng, Appeals Division of the International Criminal Court: paper and bio |
12:10 - 12:30 |
Judge Jacek Chlebny, Supreme Administrative Court of Poland. "Access to classified evidence in immigration cases" |
12:30 - 12:50 |
Jacob van Garderen, National Director Lawyers for Human Rights, Pretoria, South Africa |
SESSION 5 | BREAKOUT MEETINGS: SECURITY ISSUES/CLASSIFIED INFORMATION |
14:00 - 14:50 |
Chair: Judge Ani Harutyunyan, Administrative Court of Armenia |
BREAKOUT MEETING 1: Chair: Judge Judith Gleeson, Judge of the Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) United Kingdom |
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BREAKOUT MEETING 2: Chair: Colleen Zengotitabengoa, Chief Refugee and Asylum Law Division Refugee, Asylum and International Operations, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services |
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BREAKOUT MEETING 3: Chair: Judge Michael Hoppe, Judge Higher Administrative Court of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Mannheim, Germany |
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BREAKOUT MEETING 4: Chair: Jacob van Garderen, National Director Lawyers for Human Rights, Pretoria, South Africa |
SESSION 6 | REPORTS BACK FROM SESSION 5 & Q&A |
14.50 - 15:20 |
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SESSION 7 | STATELESSNESS |
15:45 - 16:35 |
Chair: Judge Catherine Koutsopoulou, Administrative Court of First Instance of Athens, 3d Independent Appeal Committee |
15:45 - 16:05 |
Mr Tamas Molnar, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) “Statelessness as an issue of international protection” |
16:05 - 16:25 |
Judge Maxim Ferschtman, First Instance Court, Netherlands "Statelessness; What Role for the national Judge?" |
16:25- 16:35 |
Q&A |
SESSION 8 | CHAPTER MEETINGS |
16:45 - 17:45 |
Africa Chapter : Chair Chapter President Ahmed Arbee |
Americas Chapter : Chair Chapter President Russel Zinn |
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Asia Pacific Chapter : Chair Chapter President Martin Treadwell |
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Europe Chapter : Chair Chapter President Hugo Storey |
Day 2
DAY 2: THURSDAY, 30 NOVEMBER 2017
SESSION 10 | HUMAN RIGHTS – CURRENT REGIONAL ISSUES |
09:10 - 10:35 |
Chair: Judge Dunstan Mlambo, President Gauteng, Division of the High Court of South Africa. |
09:10 - 09:30 |
Judge Paul Lemmens of the European Court of Human Rights: the European Convention on Human Rights - recent case law ... |
09:30 - 09:50 |
Judge Roberto de Figueiredo Caldas, President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights |
09:50 - 10:10 |
Judge Ben Kioko, Vice-President of the African Court on Human and People’s Rights "Between a rock and a hard place: Enhancing Institutional Legitimacy and Protection of Human rights- a persistent challenge of emerging human rights institutions: the case of the African Court". |
10:10 – 10:35 |
Judge Maria Josefina G. San Juan-Torres, Presiding Judge, Morong Philippines, "Asian Perspectives, realities and challenges in Asylum, surrogate protection and Human rights" |
SESSION 11 | BREAKOUT MEETINGS: |
11:00 - 12:00 |
Chair: Judge Hugo Storey, Judge of the Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) United Kingdom |
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Breakout meeting 1: Chair Judge Martin Treadwell, Immigration and Protection Tribunal, New Zealand |
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Breakout meeting 2: Chair Judge Marleen Maes, Council for Alien Law Litigations, Belgium |
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Breakout meeting 3: Chair Aubrey Ledwaba, Deputy Judge President: Gauteng High Court, South Africa |
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Breakout meeting 4: Chair: Amor Boubakri, International Consultant UNDP, Guinea |
SESSION12 |
PLENARY: REPORT BACK FROM SESSION 11 & Q&A |
12:00 – 12:30 |
SESSION 13 |
INTER WORLD CONFERENCE WORKING PARTIES BREAKOUT SESSIONS |
14:00 - 15:15 |
Human Rights Nexus Working Party papers: WP Statelessness: Asylum Procedure Working Party: |
SESSION 14 |
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15:45 - 16:30 | CHAIR: Dr James Simeon, Coordinator Inter World Conference Working Parties Coordinator |
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Plenary: Rapporteurs report back to the conference participants. Q & A |
Day 3
DAY 3: FRIDAY, 1 DECEMBER 2017
SESSION 17 |
NON-STATE ACTORS OF PERSECUTION |
09:00 - 10:00 | Chair: Judge Panagiotis Danias, Court of Appeal and Vice President of AGAJ |
09:00 - 09:20 |
Judge Kuniko Ozaki, Vice-President of the International Criminal Court |
09:20 - 09:40 |
Ross Pattee, Executive Director, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada. |
09:40 - 10:00 |
Justice Isaac Lenaola, Justice of the Supreme Court of Kenya, "Al Shabaab in Kenya" |
SESSION 18 |
BREAKOUT MEETINGS: NON-STATE ACTORS OF PERSECUTION |
10:30 - 11:30 | Chair: Judge Sebastiaan de Groot, First Instance Court The Netherlands |
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Breakout meeting 1: Chair: Louise Moor, Immigration and Protection Tribunal, New Zealand, “What's in a label: Non state actors of persecution and protection” |
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Breakout meeting 2: Chair: Ross Pattee, Executive Director, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada |
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Breakout meeting 3: Chair: Isabelle Dely, Judge, president of the 4th Section Head of the Research and Documentation Center National Court of Asylum (CNDA) |
SESSION 19 |
PLENARY: REPORT BACK FROM SESSION 18 & Q&A |
11.30 – 12.00 |
SESSION 20 |
CLOSING REMARKS |
12:15 - 12:30 | Katelijne Declerck, President of the IARLJ |