Topics Webinar | Migration and Human Rights in the Age of the Global Compacts
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Dear Colleagues,
MDPI would like to invite you to the Forum, “Migration and Human Rights in the Age of the Global Compacts.” This forum will highlight the developments in the fields of migration and human rights since the adoption of the two Global Compacts on Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration and on Refugees. The forum will be held via a Webinar on Wednesday, October 18th, 3:00 pm, BST | 10:00 am EDT | 4:00 pm CEST | 10:00 pm CST Asia.
We have invited four outstanding presenters who will be discussing different aspects of our Topic. With the permission of our presenters, we will record the session and post it on our MDPI Topic webpage. We hope that our Topic will be of interest to you and that you will be able to join us at our Webinar.
We look forward to your participation at our MDPI Topic Webinar and for further information see our “Migration and Human Rights in the Age of the Global Compacts” webpage.
Meet the Event Chairs
Meet Our Speakers
Prof. Dr. Diego Acosta Arcarazo
European and Migration Law, University of Bristol Law School, UK.;
Diego Acosta is a European and Migration Law Professor at the University of Bristol. He is the leading expert on migration and citizenship law in Latin America. His new project, funded by an award from the Open Society Foundations, maps and compares bilateral and multilateral free movement of people regimes globally.
Mr. Jacopo Gorgi
Head of the Asylum and Migration Unit, UNHCR;
Jacopo Giorgi heads the Asylum and Migration Unit at the Division of International Protection of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Prior to his current assignment, he coordinated courses in protection in mixed movement situations and protection of internally displaced persons at the Global Learning and Development Center of UNHCR.
Jacopo Giorgi has worked both in the NGO sector and with International Organisations, focusing on asylum procedures, IDP responses as well as protection of civilians in armed conflict, both at the HQ level and in field operations, including in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Philippines, Italy, Sudan and, more recently, Iran.
He holds a Master Degree in Human Rights and a Diploma in European Legal Studies obtained at the University of Essex and at the University of Lancaster, respectively.
Mr. Vassiliy Yuzhanin
International Organization for Migration, IOM;
Vassiliy Yuzhanin is the Head of the International Migration Law Unit. He has over 22 years of experience in migration, specializing on the International Migration Law, with a particular focus on human rights law, international labour law and migrants’ rights, transnational criminal law, business and migrants’ rights, immigration law, border and other areas. Vassiliy has been working nationally and regionally providing expert support and implementing projects on the above-mentioned thematic areas on several positions in IOM in Central Asia, Azerbaijan, Regional Office for South-East, Eastern Europe and Central Asia and IOM Headquarters. He took part in, led or contributed to many initiatives supporting governments in migration policy and legislation development.
Vassiliy holds a degree in pedagogics and two law degrees, one on commercial law from the Higher Law School “Adilet” in Kazakhstan and LLM on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law from Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK.
Dr. Younous Arbaoui
Faculty of Law, Migration Law, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands;
Younous Arbaoui is Assistant Professor at the Amsterdam Centre for Migration and Refugee Law (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam). His current research project addresses the impact of global migration law on migration policies in North Africa and the European Union. He is editor in chief of the journal Revue Hijra, Chairman of Clinique Juridique Hijra Maroc and Coordinator of the Migration law Clinic Amsterdam.
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