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Refugee Law Initiative Series

The Refugee Law Initiative (RLI) at the Human Rights Consortium is the only academic centre in the UK to concentrate specifically on international refugee law.

The Refugee Law Initiative hosts seminars, workshops, short courses and other events to promote and facilitate cutting-edge research on the protection of refugees and other displaced persons.

The majority of Refugee Law Initiative events are free and open to all.

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Wednesday 26 June 2013
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14:00 PhDs and Early Career Cultural Memory, Affect and Trauma Working Group
14:00 PhDs and Early Career Cultural Memory, Affect and Trauma Working Group
This working group is convened by the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies and is open to PhD candidates and early career researchers. Please conta...
16:00 Aspects of Law Reform: An Insider's Perspective (Hamlyn Seminar)
Author:  The Rt Hon Jack Straw, MP, Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor 2007-2010. Discussants:  The Rt Hon Dame Mary...
Friday 5 July 2013
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17:30 Launch of Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in The Commonwealth: Struggles for Decriminalisation and Change
This event marks the launch of Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in The Commonwealth: Struggles for Decriminalisation and Change...
17:30 Launch of Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in The Commonwealth: Struggles for Decriminalisation and Change
This event marks the launch of Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in The Commonwealth: Struggles for Decriminalisation and Change...
Friday 26 July 2013
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10:00 Making Freedom - A Community Conference on the 1838 Emancipation of Africans in the Caribbean
In collaboration with Queen Mary, University of London. For further information please contact: Robbie Shillia r.shilliam@qmul.ac.uk  
Thursday 12 September 2013
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11:00 'Comparative Legacies of Empire in Europe': Workshops I & II
For more information please contact Liz Buettner. [elizabeth.buettner@york.ac.uk]  
Thursday 26 September 2013
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09:30 The Commonwealth First Nations
Wednesday 9 October 2013
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17:00 Talk and Book Launch: Writing imperial histories
‘Writing imperial histories’, edited by Andrew Thompson In collaboration with Manchester University Press
Monday 28 October 2013
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16:00 Claiming Rape, Claiming Asylum: Exploring the Disclosure, Handling and Evaluation of Women’s Claims of Sexual Assault During Applications for Asylum in the UK
Although there are no official statistics available, experience and research suggest that a large proportion of women seeking asylum in the UK (claim to...
Thursday 14 November 2013
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10:00 Ghosts of CHOGMs past
Organised by the Commonwealth Oral History Project Further information please contact: Vanessa Rockel   
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