The IFHV in cooperation with Medizinische Flüchtlingshilfe Bochum and medico international has taken the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Geneva Refugee Convention to dedicate an entire digital lecture series to the complexity and multi-layered nature of the human challenge of flight and migration. Carried out over the winter term 2021/2022 in a total of eight events, we ask “70 years of Geneva Convention – a reason to celebrate?” and try to shed light on central aspects of the global refugee regime.

 

Within this lecture series, a critical perspective is of importance, which should be inherent to science anyway, but in the case of refugee research has a very special character. After all, 80% of the world's refugees are in the Global South, but 80% of the research published on refugee issues comes from scholars in institutions in the Global North. We intend to therefore pay special attention to the "decolonization debate" and counter this imbalance by including voices from the Global South and the female researchers there. We have been in close contact with LERRN, the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network, to support our endeavor Carleton.

 

Our fifth session is titled “Quo Vadis Refugee Protection in the EU – legal obligations and their shortcomings” and will take place on Thursday, December 16th 2021 from 4.30 to 6.00 PM CET.

 

Together with our distinguished guests Ms. Marie von Manteuffel (Médicins Sans Frontières), Dr. Dr. Maximilian Pichl (University Frankfurt/Main), Mr. Julian Pahlke (Member of the German Parliament), Ms. Isabel Schayani (Journalist), and Ms. Shirin Tinnesand (Human Rights Activist) will discuss EU refugee policy, the legal obligations towards refugees in the EU and their shortcomings, and ways to legally challenge member states’ violations of the 1951 Refugee Convention.

 

We cordially invite you to join us for this first event. Please register here -> https://bit.ly/31ll51B