ELENA Introductory Course, The International Protection of Refugees
18, 19 & 20 November 2011
Lisbon, Portugal

The annual ELENA Introductory Course, the International Protection of Refugees, is taking place on 18th - 20th November in the San Malhoa Hotel in Lisbon, Portugal.

The course fee is 485 Euros per person for lawyers and NGO staff; and 585 Euros for government participants. There is an additional discount of 40 Euros for ECRE members and ELENA co-ordinators.

Speakers include Elspeth Guild, Kees Wouters and Gabor Gyulai and the course will cover the definition of a refugee, exclusion from refugee status, cessation of refugee status, non-refoulement and statelessness.

ECRE is also pleased to announce an additional speaker, Rodger Haines QC. He is Chairperson of the New Zealand Human Rights Review Tribunal and Adjunct Lecturer in Law at the Faculty of Law, Auckland University. In the period 1991 to 2010 he was Deputy Chair of the NZ Refugee Status Appeals Authority and wrote many of its principal decisions. He has also co-taught papers in Comparative Asylum Law with Professor James C. Hathaway at the University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor.

Interested participants should register by 21 October 2011 to be sure of a place.

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