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A Kaldor Centre Virtual Conference 2021 key panel session held on 21 October 2021. Sometimes the impacts of disasters and climate change mean that whole areas may become unsafe to live in. Communities may be faced with the prospect of relocation. But who decides – to move at all, and if so, where? Planned relocations traverse a complicated cultural, legal and land title landscape. What does a ‘successful’ planned relocation look like? Hear from Erica Bower, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law; Daniel Fitzpatrick, Faculty of Law, Monash University; Salote Soqo, Climate Justice & Crisis Response, Unitarian Universalist Service Committee; Merewalesi Yee, University of Queensland; and chaired by Elizabeth Ferris, Institute for the Study of International Migration, Georgetown University

A Kaldor Centre Virtual Conference key panel session held on 19 October 2021. When people are on the move from the impacts of disasters or climate change, how does the law help or hinder them? Is refugee law useful? Human rights law? Migration law? What about regional free movement agreements? How is individual agency enhanced or eroded by legal frameworks? What about people who move but don’t cross an international border, and what about people who can’t move at all? Our experts will reflect on how these questions are answered across different times and places. Hear from Bruce Burson, New Zealand Immigration and Protection Tribunal; Lucy Daxbacher, Head of Mission to Uganda, Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD); Walter Kälin, Envoy of the Chair, Platform on Disaster Displacement; Caroline Zickgraf, Deputy Director, The Hugo Observatory; and chaired by Tamara Wood, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law.

This event was held on 9 November 2021, to launch the fourth edition of 'The Refugee in International Law', by Guy S Goodwin-Gill and Jane McAdam(together with Emma Dunlop). In this podcast, Guy S Goodwin-Gill and Emma Dunlop discuss the practice of refugee law today, in a discussion with Arif Hussein of the Refugee Advice and Casework Service (RACS). How is refugee status determined around the world amid changing social pressures? What are the trends in protection in different jurisdictions? What legal questions arise when restrictive policies mean that access to asylum is blocked, rights are curtailed, and people cannot access fair status determination procedures?

This opening panel at the Kaldor Centre Virtual Conference 2021: 'Whose move? Addressing migration and displacement in the face of climate change', was held on Tuesday 19 October, 2021. In this panel, experts set out the key questions and principles that should guide responses to mobility in the face of climate change. Hear from Rabab Fatima, Ambassador of Bangladesh to the United Nations; Andrew Harper, Special Advisor on Climate Action to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees; Frances Namoumou, Pacific Conference of Churches; Nicole Shepardson, US Department of State and Chair Jane McAdam AO, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law in this crucial discussion.

A Kaldor Centre Conference 2021: 'Whose move? Addressing migration and displacement in the face of climate change', panel session held on 20 October 2021 AEDT. People fleeing disasters and the impacts of climate change often enter an unmapped legal landscape. Faced with legal gaps or overlaps, courts today are considering how laws may be shaped to unprecedented circumstances. Different jurisdictions are deciding differently – and some outcomes are forcing leaders to propose more creative new solutions. Hear from Robin Bronen, Alaska Institute for Justice; Ama Francis, International Refugee Assistance Project; Adam McBeth, Victorian Bar; Solomon Yeo, Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change; chaired by llona Millar, Baker McKenzie.

A vital, virtual discussion about the principles and practice of academic research, led by emerging scholars with lived experience of displacement. This panel event was hosted by the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law and the Forced Migration Research Network at UNSW, and UNHCR’s Global Academic Interdisciplinary Network, on 7 October 2021. Introduced by GAIN Chair Professor Geoff Gilbert, and moderated by the Kaldor Centre’s Dr Tamara Wood, early-career thought leaders came together to discuss ways to overcome structural barriers to education and research dissemination, and career pathways for refugees in academia.

A Kaldor Centre Virtual Conference closing panel session held on 21 October 2021. 'How can we build support for people at risk of climate and disaster displacement, at COP26 and beyond?' Speakers: Nisreen Elsaim, UN Secretary General's Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change; Alex Randall, Climate and Migration Coalition; Koko Warner, UN Climate Change (UNFCCC); and Martijn Wilder, Pollination Group; chaired by Linh Do, Head of Campaign Networks, Climate Catalyst.

This is the first of two launch events to celebrate the release of the fourth edition of 'The Refugee in International Law' by the Kaldor Centre's Guy S Goodwin-Gill and Jane McAdam (together with Emma Dunlop). On 29 September 2021, authors Guy S Goodwin-Gill and Jane McAdam AO reflected on the many issues confronting the global protection regime at this moment, in a conversation with Guardian Australia’s Ben Doherty, chaired by Kaldor Centre Advisory Committee member, Shukufa Tahiri.

The Kaldor Centre's Lauren Martin talks to co-authors and Kaldor Centre affiliates, Erica Bower and Sanjula Weerasinghe about their latest report 'Leaving Place Restoring Home: Enhancing the Evidence Base on Planned Relocation Cases in the context of Hazards, Disasters, and Climate Change'. As hazards, disasters and climate change profoundly affect people’s lives and livelihoods, communities and authorities seek opportunities to move people permanently out of harm’s way. Planned relocation is generally considered as a measure of last resort. In this context, policymakers, practitioners and communities require refined information on how planned relocation could be undertaken to minimize negative impacts, avoid pitfalls and promote human rights and human dignity.

Australia’s multi-billion-dollar offshore processing system has demonstrably failed to stop boats, save lives or break the business model of people smugglers, according to a new policy brief from UNSW’s Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law. Released at a pivotal moment when the policy is drawing political interest elsewhere as an ‘Australian model’, ‘Cruel, costly and ineffective: the failure of offshore processing in Australia’ marks nine years since Australia resumed its bipartisan policy of intercepting asylum seekers at sea and forcibly transferring them to the Pacific nations of Nauru and Papua New Guinea. For the first time, Kaldor Centre researchers Madeline Gleeson and Natasha Yacoub break down the common perception of offshore processing as a single policy, explaining how instead it has unfolded in four distinct phases since August 2012. Critically, they note that Australia has been caught up in the fourth and final phase – in which the government stopped transferring people offshore and has

Think through the big issues in global displacement in the decade ahead with our panel of experts. A virtual panel session held on 17 November 2020 at the Kaldor Centre Conference 2020. Louise Aubin (UNHCR) Rez Gardi (Harvard Satter Human Rights Fellow) Cecilia Jimenez-Damary (UN Special Rapporteur, Human Rights of IDPs)Kathleen Newland (Migration Policy Institute) Chair: Jane McAdam (Kaldor Centre)

Australian lawyers reflect from the frontlines on the effectiveness and potential of strategic refugee litigation in this virtual panel session held at the Kaldor Centre Conference 2020 on 19 November 2020. Hear from our expert panel: Matthew Albert (Dever's List, Castan Chambers) Scott Cosgriff (Human Rights Law Centre) Arif Hussein (Refugee Advice and Casework Service) Sanmati Verma (Clothier Anderson Immigration Lawyers) Chair: Sangeetha Pillai (Kaldor Centre)

How do racism and displacement intersect, and is the protection regime part of the problem or the solution? Hear E Tendayi Achiume (UN Special Rapporteur on Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia & Related Intolerance)and Nyadol Nyuon(Lawyer, community advocate and writer)in conversation at the closing session of the Kaldor Centre Conference 2020, held on 20 November 2020. Hosted by Jane McAdam, Scientia Professor and Kaldor Centre Director.

Join experts from around the globe to discuss emerging and future regional challenges to refugee protection. This panel session was recorded on 18 November at the Kaldor Centre Virtual Conference 2020. Panel featuring: Maria Bances del Rey (UNHCR Americas Bureau), Cathryn Costello (Hertie School), Oroub El-Abed (Centre for Lebanese Studies), Ottilia Anna Maunganidze (Institute for Security Studies), Vitit Muntarbhorn (Chulalongkorn University), Chair: Madeline Gleeson (Kaldor Centre)

Go beyond the buzzwords to explore the promise and pitfalls of technology for refugee protection. This panel discussion was recorded on 18 November at the Kaldor Centre Virtual Conference 2020. Panel featuring: Tey El-Rjula (Author and tech entrepreneur, Fleur Johns (UNSW Sydney, Law & Justice), Petra Molnar (Refugee Law Laboratory)and Roya Pakzad (Taraaz)and chaired by Daniel Howden (Lighthouse Reports).

Hosted by the Refugee Studies Centre (University of Oxford); Centre for Fundamental Rights (Hertie School, Berlin); Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness (University of Melbourne), and the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law (UNSW Sydney), The Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law is a groundbreaking new book which critiques the status quo in international refugee law and sets the agenda for future research. Professor Hilary Charlesworth launched the book on 25 May 2021 and engaged in a lively discussion with the three editors, Professors Cathryn Costello, Michelle Foster and Jane McAdam. The event was chaired by refugee advocate and lawyer Nyadol Nyuon. We invite you to join us to find out what the Handbook tells us about the situation for refugees today, and how international protection is – or isn’t – working at a time when mobility is curtailed for so many. A 65-chapter reference work involving 78 authors, including 48 women, the Handbook is global in scope, with 10 chapters focusing in

The pandemic put us all in limbo. For the first time, many Australians understood what it means to be stranded, unable to cross borders, separated from the people you love. When our government said we were ‘all in this together’ – what happened to the refugees in 'Temporary'? And what’s ahead for them? Sisonke Msimang interviews Sarah Dale, Director of RACS (Refugee Advice & Casework Service) to find out, in our final episode.

This panel problematises and critiques the notion of ‘displacement’ in the context of disasters and climate change. While the threat posed by climate change is real, its manifestations are not as straightforward as we might think. For instance, the idea that rising sea levels will displace millions of people and create ‘climate refugees’ is a popular trope, but it has little evidential grounding. Within the Pacific, multiple and diverse types of mobility, as well as immobility, have been used as coping strategies over centuries. This panel explores how a more nuanced understanding of displacement in the context of disasters and climate change, and its relationship to international protection, can open up possibilities for different kinds of durable solutions. The Kaldor Centre hosted the Asia-Pacific component of a global conference held on 21 January 2021 to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Statute of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The conference was a partne

Kaldor Centre Senior Research Associate Dr Sangeetha Pillai speaks with ABC Radio Darwin presenter Liz Trevaskis about the refugees that have spent a year in hotel detention in Darwin while awaiting medical treatment. Originally aired 3 February 2021: https://www.abc.net.au/radio/darwin/programs/drive/drive/13097212

In part 7 of Temporary, we meet Hani. Back in 2013, with Operation Sovereign Borders, the Australian government launched an outright war on asylum seekers, condemning 30,000 people seeking safety to mandatory detention and temporary protection, leaving thousands of people like Hani, a young poet from Somalia, caught in the middle. Years after the harsh deterrence policies were implemented, we ask: have they actually worked? Produced with UNSW Centre for Ideas and Guardian Australia, hosted by Sisonke Msimang. Visit the full 'Temporary' project at temporary.kaldorcentre.net/