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 Presentation: "Contemporary Challenges of the Americas in the Context of Refugee and Immigration Law: A Judicial Perspective"

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
	BREAKOUT MEETING 2: Chair: Colleen Zengotitabengoa, Chief Refugee and Asylum Law Division Refugee, Asylum and International Operations, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services
	BREAKOUT MEETING 3: Chair: Judge Michael Hoppe, Judge Higher Administrative Court of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Mannheim, Germany
	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

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” Bio and article
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
	Asia Pacific Chapter : Chair Chapter President Martin Treadwell
	Europe Chapter : Chair Chapter President Hugo Storey

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. Short bio
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" ASEAN Perspectives - Realities and Challenges

SESSION 11	BREAKOUT MEETINGS:
11:00 - 12:00	Chair: Judge Hugo Storey, Judge of the Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) United Kingdom
	Breakout meeting 1: Chair Judge Martin Treadwell, Immigration and Protection Tribunal, New Zealand
	Breakout meeting 2: Chair Judge Marleen Maes, Council for Alien Law Litigations, Belgium
	Breakout meeting 3: Chair Aubrey Ledwaba, Deputy Judge President: Gauteng High Court, South Africa
	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

WP Statelessness:
- Amor Boubakri Stateless Persons in West Africa

Asylum Procedure Working Party:
- Judith Gleeson's Report and bio

SESSION 14

15:45 - 16:30

CHAIR: Dr James Simeon, Coordinator Inter World Conference Working Parties Coordinator

Plenary: Rapporteurs report back to the conference participants.

Q & A

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. Short bio and his presentation: "State and Non-State Actors of Persecution in Central America"
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
	Breakout meeting 1: Chair: Louise Moor, Immigration and Protection Tribunal, New Zealand, “What's in a label: Non state actors of persecution and protection”
	Breakout meeting 2: Chair: Ross Pattee, Executive Director, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada
	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