Border deaths and migration policies: state and non-state approaches
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 14-15 June 2018
organized by Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
(convenors: Thomas Spijkerboer and Paolo Cuttitta)
in collaboration with
International Organization for Migration (IOM), Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions
Venue: Faculty of Law, Initium Building, de Boelelaan 1077 – 1081 HV Amsterdam
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Thursday 14 June: Welcome
| 10.00-11.00 | Registration & Coffee |
Thursday 14 June (Morning): Opening Plenary – Chair: Maarten den Heijer (UvA)
Room: IN-0B60
| 11.00-11.25 | Opening:
– Abdullah |
| 11.25-11.40 | Opening:
– Agnes Callamard (UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions) |
| 11.40-12.40 | – Thomas Spijkerboer (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
– Leanne Weber (Monash University Melbourne) |
| 12.40-13.00 | Responses:
– Mussie Zerai (Agenzia Habeshia) – Frank Laczko (IOM-GMDAC) |
| 13.00-14.00 | Lunch break |
Thursday 14 June (Afternoon): Opening Plenary – Chair: Maarten den Heijer (UvA)
Room: IN-0B60
| 14.00-15.00 | – Keane Shum (UNHCR Regional Office for South-East Asia)
– Liza Medrano (Director General for the Protection of the Honduran Migrant – Government of the Republic of Honduras) |
| 15.00-15.20 | Responses:
– Vicki Squire (University of Warwick) – Hassiba Hadj-Sahraoui (MSF Operational Centre Amsterdam) |
| 15.20-15.40 | Coffee break |
| 15.40-16.40 | – Edda Pando (Milano Senza Frontiere)
– Kouceila Zerguine (Collectif des familles des harragas) – Kate Morgan-Olsen (No More Deaths) – Luis Osuna (Armadillos Búsqueda y Rescate) |
| 16.40-17.00 | Responses:
– Simon Robins (University of York) – Matteo Tondini (Defence General Staff – Office of Legal Affairs – Italy) |
| 17.00-18.00 | discussion |
| 18.00-19.30 | Drinks |
Friday 15 June (Morning): Parallel Workshops
Room numbers will be announced on site
| 8.30-9.00 | Coffee & tea |
| 9.00-10.30 | Parallel workshops – Part 1 |
| 10.30-11.00 | Coffee break |
| 11.00-12.30 | Parallel workshops – Part 2 |
| 12.30-13.30 | Lunch break |
| Workshop | Chair | Rapporteur |
| W-1 Mourning | Pamela Prickett (UvA) | Victor Toom (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a.M.) |
| W-2 Enforced Disappearances | Emilio Distretti (SOAS) | Robin Reineke (Colibri Center) |
| W-3 Mortality | Craig Spencer (MSF – Columbia University) | Tamara Last (VU) |
| W-4 Dead Bodies | Julia Black (IOM) | Amade M’Charek (UvA) |
| W-5 Representations | Renske Vos (VU) | Giulia Sinatti (VU) |
| W-6 Various Actors | Harald Glöde (Borderline Europe) | Polly Pallister-Wilkins (UvA) |
| W-7 Causes and Effects | Orçun Ulusoy (VU) | Marie-Laure Basilien-Gainche (Université Lyon 3) |
| W-8 Moving Forward | Huub Dijstelbloem (UvA) | Carolyn Horn (Special Advisor to UN SR on ESAE) |
Friday 15 June (Afternoon): Closing Plenary – Chair: Thomas Spijkerboer (VU)
Room: IN-0B60
| 13.30-15.00 | workshop restitution |
| 15.00-15.15 | Coffee break |
| 15.15-16.15 | general workshop discussion |
| 16.15-16.30 | Coffee break |
| 16.30-17.00 | Paolo Cuttitta (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) |
| 17.00-17.30 | Tineke Strik (Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe; Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen) |
| 17.30-18.00 | wrap-up |
This conference has been organised as part of the research project “Border Policies and Sovereignty. Human rights and the right to life of irregular migrants”, funded by NWO (the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research), grant no. 453-12-004. It has been financially supported by the Faculty of Law of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the Ministry of Justice and Security of the Netherlands.
