According to the UNHCR, at the end of 2022, almost 109 million people worldwide were forcibly displaced as a result of persecution, conflict, violence, human rights violations and events seriously disturbing public order. This represents an increase of 19 million people compared to the end of 2021.
Among them, more than 10 million were in need of international protection. Ongoing and new conflicts have driven forced displacement across the globe. The Russian Federation’s aggression against Ukraine in February 2022 created the fastest displacement crisis, and one of the largest, since the Second World War. Conflict and insecurity in other parts of the world either continued or was reignited, such as in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia and Myanmar.
The RefWar Project (www.refwar.fr), funded by the French National Agency for Research, aims to study the forms of international protection available to people fleeing armed conflict. In view of the difficulties of applying existing legal instruments, it suggests various ways of improving this protection worldwide, which this seminar will present.
Date: Wednesday, 7 February 2024
Time: 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM ACDT
Location: Café Alere & Alere Function Centre – Sturt Road Bedford Park, SA 5042
Speaker:
- Professor Dr Thibaut Fleury Graff, Paris Panthéon-Assas University (France)
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