About Africas Chapter
The association's core function is to provide training in refugee law decision making to judges through workshops, chapter conferences and a bi-annual world conference. The Africa chapter of the IARMJ will seek to further the objectives of the association, through the co-operation and the exchange of information and expertise on asylum and refugee law, procedures and decision-making among states in Africa.
Chairperson
Ahmed Arbee
Former Member of Parliament (SA), Former Member of the Immigration Selection Board and the National Transport Commission. (South Africa)
In 1998, Ahmed was appointed by the then Minister of Home Affairs as the first Chairperson of the Refugee Appeal Board (RAB) mandated to establish the appeal board.In 1999, at the invitation of the UNHCR, I participated in a judicial conference hosted by the Supreme Court Bar Association of India in Delhi. During this conference I met then President of the IARMJ , Geoffrey Care and Erika Feller UNHCR. Since that meeting, I became actively involved in the IARLJ and addressed numerous Regional and World conferences.
A highlight of this engagement was the relaunch of the Africa Chapter in Pretoria in September 2006. The Africa Chapter has since grown phenominally with Ahmed consistently demonstrating a passion to promote the activities of both the IARLJ and the Africa Chapter.
CONTACT IARMJ
The Secretariat
International Association of Refugee and Migration Judges
P.O. Box 1621
2003 BR Haarlem
The Netherlands
+31 88 361 45 21
+31 6 481 38 606
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