5th Annual National Conference on Protection of Refugees in India(Feb28-Mar 1); Last date of registration 16th Jan,2015

NUJS Legal Aid Society is organizing its 5th Annual National Conference on the theme “Protection of Refugees in India: An End to Lawless Persecution” from 27th February to 1st March 2015. Students and academics interested in presenting papers on the theme of the conference are requested to submit their articles to [email protected] by the 16th of January 2015.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Pursuant to our goal of sparking off an academic quest for a Nation Refugee Protection Law; the LAS is inviting papers for presentation at the conference. The following is an indicative list of themes for presenting papers:
 Refugees and Stateless Persons
 Legal Aid for Refugees: Institutional Infrastructure
 Possibility of Partnerships in Protection of Refugee rights –
 Migration Trends – International Best Practices –
 Role of Non-state entities in Refugee Protection
 Operational Challenges in Refugee Protection: Administrative and Policy Perspective
 Risk relating to resettlement and rehabilitation of refugees
 Forced Returns Policy and its viability in the Indian context.
 Climactic migration  India’s passive refusal to grant refugee status to Rohingya and Afghan immigrants.
The guidelines for the paper presentation are as follows:
1. Co-authorship is allowed for up-to 2 authors per submission.
2. The papers sent should be original and unpublished.
3. Any uniform style of footnoting can be adhered to.
4. The prescribed upper word limit is 3000 (exclusive of footnotes).
5. The submission must contain a cover page, including the names of the author, the name of the institution and the title of the paper.
6. A separate abstract of approximately 300 words must be provided for the article. 7. All submissions should be made to [email protected].
Accommodation and local hospitality will be provided to authors whose papers are selected for presentation at the conference.
DETAILS & DEADLINES
Venue:
The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences,
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Bhawan,
12, LB Block, Sector III, Salt Lake City,
Kolkata- 700098.
Deadline for submission of Articles: 16 January 2015
Date of publication of list of Selected Candidates: 23rd January 2015
Date of Conference: 27th February to 1st March 2015
CONTACTS
For further details or clarifications, please feel free to contact us.
PROMIT CHATTERJEE MANSI JHAVERI
+91- 9836320798 +91- 801742061
(Convener, Legal Aid Society) (Co-Convener, Legal Aid Society)
Email ID: [email protected]
 
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