Ilankai Tamil Sangam
Association of Tamils of Sri Lanka in the USA
Launch of World Refugee Survey 2005
The International Refugee Rights Initiative (IRRI) is pleased to invite you to a briefing by the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) for the international human rights advocacy community in New York on its soon-to-be-released World Refugee Survey 2005-Warehousing, Inventory of Refugee Rights, graciously hosted by the International Rescue Committee.
Last year, USCRI made headlines with World Refugee Survey 2004-Warehousing Issue and the international campaign it launched to vindicate the long-ignored rights of refugees to earn livelihoods and freedom of movement. This year, USCRI deepens and focuses its analysis and advocacy on warehousing, featuring articles on the relevance of development aid in leveraging refugee rights and the particular situations of refugee rights in Tanzania and Thailand and reporting on anti-warehousing campaign activities around the world.
WRS 2005 will also introduce a new format for its country updates that breaks down the policies and practices of more than 40 countries (hosting more than 90 percent of the world's refugees) and rates them with reference to the standards of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees.
USCRI will also brief participants on the upcoming North-South Civil Society Conference on Refugee Warehousing in Geneva, September 25-26, immediately before the Annual NGO Consultations with the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
Please
join
us
for
what
promises
to
be
a
lively
discussion!
Who:
From
USCRI:
Lavinia
Limón,
President
and
CEO;
Gregory
Chen,
Director
of
Policy
Analysis
and
Research;
Merrill
Smith,
Editor.
IRRI
Co-Director
Deirdre
Clancy
will
respond
and
facilitate
discussion.
Where:
International
Rescue
Committee,
122
E
42nd
Street,
12th
Floor,
New
York
City
(SW
corner
of
42nd
and
Lexington
Avenue.
Subway
4/5/6/7
to
Grand
Central.
Please
have
an
ID
ready
to
show
the
security
desk
in
the
lobby)
When: Thursday, June 16, 10 a.m.
As
space
will
be
limited,
please
RSVP
by
June
6
to
Olivia
Bueno,
IRRI
at
olivia.bueno@refugee-rights.org
212-377-2700
ext.
416
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Posted June 1, 2005