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Date: 25-27 September 2009 (27 September – optional day)
Deadline
for the applications: 31 August 2009 till
23:59 PM
Venue:
Uzhgorod, Uzhgorod National University Law
Faculty.
Working
language: English,
Ukrainian, Russian.
Number of participants
(students from other countries): 20 persons.
AIM: to promote the idea of Human
Rights among law students and young lawyers and to involve law students and young lawyer in the
discussion of actual problems concerning with rights and freedoms of refugees and to analyze the problems of legal regulation of
refugees status and the practical solutions
of this problems.
Means:
- To increase the legal culture, legal knowledges and skills of law students and young lawyers.
- To facilitate the studying the legislation on refugees by law students and young lawyers.
- To analyse and define failings and gaps in Ukrainian and legislations of other countries.
- To define and understand international refugee and human rights law standards.
- To discuss this topic with specialists, experts, people which work in this sphere, refugees.
Short exposition of
project:
Our
Conference stipulates active involvement of the participants in the discussion of actual
problems in legal regulation of refugee status including comparative law
analysis of Refugee law in all European countries.
International society try to resolve
refugee problems for a long period of time but the refugee rights are often
breaking, new categories of necessitated migrators appear and other problems
arise, that’s why involvement of law students and young lawyers is very
important to help them to be internationally minded and professionally
skilled and to encourage them to act for the good of society.
The participants
in the conference will be experts of the leading universities of Ukraine,
representatives of the local branch of the National Institute for Strategic
Studies in Uzhgorod, representatives of the State Committee on Nationalities
and Religions in the Transcarpathian region and representative of the UN High
Commissioner for Refugees, legal consultant of the Federal Asylum
Office, Ministry of the Interior Republic of Austria.
Participants submit their application
forms together with the presentations / theses to the
Organizing Committee till 31 August 2009.
These theses will be
printed and given to the participants and experts
during the conference. At the time of the event a trip
to the refugee asylum in Mukachevo is planned.
The result
of this scientific conference will be the preparation of the recommendations
and written proposals on the legal regulation of refugee
status and submitting them to the Verkhovna Rada
(Ukrainian legislative body).
The conference
will be held with the division into two
sections:
Section I - General
theoretical issues will be considered;
Section II – It is
devoted to the legal problems of definition of refugee status and protection of
refugee’s rights.
Recommended
topics for
reports:
Section
I:
- The global crisis in the world and its linkage to the refugees (the costs of refugee’s maintenance, the problem of their work, etc.);
- Ukraine – the tunnel into Europe;
- General legal
standards of refugee’s rights;
Section ІІ:
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The implications of EU enlargement of the migration processes for Ukraine;
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The rights and freedoms of
refugees in the
legislations of EU countries: commons and differences.
Participants can choose their
own theme for the conference.
Requirements for thesis design:
- text - Microsoft Word for Windows; *doc;
- amount – not more than 3 pages А4;
- margin: top 15, bottom 15, left 20, right
- type – Times New Roman 14;
- line spacing − 1,5;
- name of a file should contain the surname of it’s author transliterated into English;
There will be a
competition on the “best speech” within the conference. The winner will
be granted with diploma and valuable prizes.
The report of the winner will be published in a
professional legal magazine!
All
participants will get
certificates and collections of theses of all lectures and reports.
Expected results:
1.
The attraction of the attention of law students and young lawyers to the
magnitude and actuality of the refugee’s problems in Ukraine and in the whole world.
2.
Professional knowledges of law students and young lawyers on the problems of legal regulation of refugee status and international standards of refugee’s rights.
3.
The preparation of the recommendations
and proposals for improvement the legal regulation of refugee’s status and submitting them to the Supreme Council of Ukraine.
