Join us for this presentation, hosted by Ms Deslie Billich, Director of Global Reconciliation, Senior Lecturer Director of Migrant and Refugee Research Cluster, Faculty of Education, Humanities and Law at Flinders University, Adelaide.
Australia is receiving a large number of ‘refugees’ from Sri Lanka. Our Guest Speaker, Ms Deslie Billich, will consider domestic legal policy on asylum seekers in a global context, using Sri Lanka as a case study. Ms Billich will consider whether there an argument for a wider definition of a ‘refugee’ so as to cater transitional period, during which a country recovers from civil war. She will also explore whether the ‘responsibility to protect’ doctrine should extend to refugee law and policy.
Ms Billich is an experienced legal and policy advisor with 30 years of experience in the field of legal public policy, legal advocacy, public sector management and private sector legal defense. She is a director of Global Reconciliation devising and implementing programmes in the field with civil society, has worked in Africa, Middle East and Afghanistan in rule of law, human rights, trafficking and criminal justice programmes, and also with public sector ministries. She has worked with various donors, such as UNODC, OECD, US Dept. of State (PAE Group), and Raoul Wallenberg Institute. She was the Director of a refugee legal community centre, lecturer in international law, ethics, evdience and criminal justice.
When
21 February 2013
5.30 pm
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6.30 pm
Where
Bond University
Case Study Room 1
Level 3
Faculty of Law
Contact Information
Mairead Courtney
Events Officer
Faculty of Law
Tel: (07) 5595 1042
