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PANEL DEBATE: ‘Access to asylum in a global context of shrinking protection space: challenges and good practices’
Join us for a panel debate on the gaps and barriers for access to asylum as well as positive examples of good practices drawing on experiences from across the world, including from Latin America, North Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
The area of refugee protection has grown increasingly complex. While the Refugee Convention is still the overarching legal instrument under which refugee protection is recognized, it has been supplemented by protection statuses based in international, regional, and national human rights law.
In addition, some regions of the world favor alternative protection schemes for displaced persons focusing on shortening the duration of residence permits and limiting the access to associated rights. Other regions strategize around ‘outsourcing’ asylum processing and refugee protection all together or criminalizing refugees by imposing penalties for irregular entry or by other means deterring refugees from seeking and accessing protection.
On the backdrop of a shrinking protection space and increasing securitization of mobility, the event will highlight challenges related to access to asylum procedures and protection services at borders and along displacement routes. And it will explore good practices on addressing gaps and barriers to legal protection for displaced people and showcase positive examples of how to support protection oriented legislative change.
Time and place
The event will take place at Danish Refugee Council, Borgergade 10, 1300 Copenhagen K, on Wednesday 27 November 2024, 14:30-17:00 CET. Both in-person and online participation is possible.
Speakers
The debate will be opened by DRC Secretary General, Charlotte Slente and keynote by Prof. David Cantor, Director, Refugee Law Initiative, London University. The keynote will be followed by two thematic panels that will capture key challenges and highlight good practices from across the world, including from Latin America, North Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
The discussion will be moderated by Prof. Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, Director of MOBILE - the Danish National Research Foundation's Center of Excellence on Global Mobility Law
REGISTRATION by 20 November 2024