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Find
out what being a refugee means
The
Fundació
Autònoma Solidària, foundation oriented
to promote integration and active solidarity in the university, is organising
an International War Refugees Conference in the Universitat Autònoma
de Barcelona. This conference will take place from the 9th till the
11th of April 2002. It is co-organised with the Catalan Committee of
UNHCR and the Generalitat de Catalunya (Autonomous Government
of Catalonia).
Conferences, exhibitions, seminars, round tables, workshops an
other activities will arise an academic discussion with the participation
of the main international personalities and agents concerning refugees,
members of the academic community and students. We want to raise discussions,
find possible solutions and future action about the situation of refugees
and displaced people.
Moreover, we are going to promote NGOs and other organisations which work
with refugees through workshops and seminars. The invited organisations
will have tables to display their information and to diffuse their aid
and humanitarian projects.
The
Conference will be recognize with 1,5 credits
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Conference Programme
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Tuesday 9th of April
3:30
p.m
Initial session: rights and legislation of refugees
and displaced people
- Governmental restraints to migration and their influence
in asylum requests
- Antoni Lluch, president of ACSAR (Catalan Association for
Refugees Solidarity and Help)
- Refugees' Human Rights: present situation
- Icíar Ruiz Giménez, refugee program coordination and volunteer
lawyer in Amnesty International - Spanish section
4:35
p.m
Occidental
Sahara and saharawis refugees
- Ministry of SADR and ACAPS
5:30
p.m
Coffee Break
6:00 p.m
Round
table - Humanitarian aids projects and experiences with refugees
- Raquel Ayora, MSF
- Alfons Sancho, President of Federació Catalana d'ONGs pel desenvolupament
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Wendy
Williams, Internacional Red Cross Federation
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Wednesday
10th of April
9:30
a.m
Opening act
10:00
a.m
Opening conference: Present situation of refugees and
displaced people in the world
- Carlos Boggio, UNHCR representation
11:30
a.m
Why there are refugees and displaced: causes
and prevention possibilities
- Initial intervention and debate.
Initial
intervention
Rafael Grasa, International and Intercultural Estudies Center,
UAB
Debate
with:
- Vicenç Fisas, UNESCO Chair for Human Rights and Peace (UAB)
titular and ACNUR Catalan Comitee member.
- Ignasi de Juan-Creix y Breton. Former General Coordinator and
MSF Medical Coordinator in Colombia, Asia and Central America.
- Pere Vilanova, Constitutional Law and Policy Departament director
(Universitat de Barcelona)
2:00
p.m
Lunch
time
3:30
p.m
Refugees in the Balcans' crisis
- Sonja Gole, Organization for Immigration and exmember of Slovenska
Filantropia.
- Ivana Laginja, affiliated with two NGO's dealing with developmental
issues and post-war society reconstruction. Founder and first
director of Suncokret Croatia's leading humanitarian NGO (until
1995).
4:35
p.m
Refugees and displaced women experiences
- Sahar Saba, RAWA Member
- Jadranka Milicevic, Women in Black from Belgrade
5:30
p.m
Coffee Break
6:00
p.m
Volunteering
in aid refugees projects
a)
Voluntaris per Bòsnia experience
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Jordi Arjó, Voluntaris per Bòsnia
- Denis Grcic, refugee and volunteer in programs in Eslovenia
- Josep Herreros, United Nations and UNHCR volunteer and voluntaris
per Bòsnia
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Carles Puigmartí, Voluntaris per Bòsnia
b)
b) Serbian minority in Kosovo: work experiences with refugees
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Eduard Compte, ACNUR volunteer and Voluntaris per Bòsnia
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Thursday 11th of April
9:30
a.m
Refugees in Afghanistan: before and after the 11th
September
- Jordi Raich, humanitarian emergences worker with differents
NGO's.
10:30
a.m
Balcan
refugees, an experience of solidarity in the university 10
years of UAB amb Bòsnia
11:30
a.m
Coffee break
12:00 a.m
Futur
challenges in refugee people situation
- Closing session with Francesc Vendrell, UN Secretary-General's
Personal Representative and head of Special Missions to Afghanistan
1:00
p.m
Conclussions, closing interventions and final performance
- Performance of Refugiats, by Sergi Pompermayer
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Complementary Events
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Exhibitions
Itinerant
exhibitions in the Faculties of Philosophy, Sociology, Science
and Communication
- "Without war, without peace" (Bosnia)
- "Bosnians in exile" (Voluntaris
per Bòsnia)
- "50 years of UNHCR"
- Anti-person mines from Moviment per la Pau
Permanent exhibition from 3rd till 12th April
in the faculty of Ciències de l'Educació
"Anti-person mines: the last step" with
refugee children drawings.
3th
of April 2002, campus UAB
Refugees day in the UAB
Presentation: Comité Catalán del ACNUR
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Presentation of the UNHCR Catalan Committee
- Testimony of volunteers and refugees from Tibet, Afghanistan,
Red Cross and other organisations
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HAIMA: Saharawis experiences in Tinduf
- Information
and raising public awareness
Conference
Days (9th, 10th and 11th of April 2002)
Rectorat
Exhibitions
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"Without war, without peace" (Bosnia)
- "Bosnians in exile" (Voluntaris
per Bòsnia)
- "50 years of UNHCR"
- Anti-person mines from Moviment per la Pau
Information
tables about NGOs, firms, organisations of volunteers
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