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SUMMARY:Call for Papers - International conference: Protecting persons forcibly displaced in Africa
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:\n\n\nThe Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria and the Universit
 y of Botswana, Gaborone are pleased to announce a one-day conference on pro
 tecting persons forcibly displaced in Africa and hereby invite proposals fo
 r papers.  The conference will be held as part of the 28th African Hum
 an Rights Moot Court Competition.\n\n\n5 July 2019\nUniversity of Botswana,
  Gaborone, Botswana\n\n\nDownload Call for Papers  |  Téléch
 arger l'appel à communications  | Download da chamada para docume
 ntos\nBackground and aim of the Conference\n\nThe African Union designated 
 2019 as the “Year of Refugees, Returnees and IDPs: Towards Durable Solution
 s to Forced Displacement in Africa.” The year 2019 also marks 50 years sinc
 e the adoption of the 1969 Organization of African Unity Convention on Refu
 gees, and 10 years since the adoption of the 2009 AU Convention on the Assi
 stance to and Protection of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa (IDP or 
 Kampala Convention).\n\n\nMore than a third of the world’s forcibly displac
 ed people are in Africa, including an estimated million refugees and asylum
 -seekers and 14.5 million IDPs. Forced displacement remains a major issue c
 onfronting the African continent.\n\n\nA pertinent issue related to forced 
 displacement is that of statelessness. While statistics on the actual popul
 ation of stateless persons in Africa is sparse, records of statelessness in
  some countries across the continent indicate that it is a problem affectin
 g more than one million people on the continent. While recent initiatives a
 re being undertaken at the regional level through the study on the right to
  nationality and the development of the protocol on statelessness, it is im
 perative to examine the various conditions, significantly at the national l
 evel, that affect the adequacy of protection of stateless persons.\n\n\nChi
 ldren continue to bear the brunt of forced displacement. Millions of childr
 en are forced to flee their places of residence due to conflict, violence a
 nd natural disasters. Displacement, whether as refugees or IDPs, gravely af
 fect children’s ability to survive, to stay healthy and to benefit from edu
 cation. Their situation is exacerbated when they experience additional hard
 ships, such as detention in immigration facilities, or exploitation and abu
 se.\nTo critically reflect on these issues, this Conference seeks pape
 rs that address the issue of forcible displacement, including issues pertai
 ning to children, conflicts and displacement; refugees; returnees; IDPs and
  statelessness. In each respect, the main question is the (in)adequacy
  of state and other responses.\nSubmission Guidelines\n - The organisers in
 vite abstracts by anyone interested in presenting a paper at the Conference
 .\n - Abstracts should be between a minimum of 250 and a maximum of 350 wor
 ds, and should:\n - Have a clear and descriptive title;\n - Indicate the ma
 in question(s) to be addressed;\n - Identify the proposed methodology; and\
 n - Set out the anticipated findings (and their implications).\n\nIn additi
 on, the name, educational and professional qualifications of the author(s) 
 should be stated in a sentence or two (in the same document; not included i
 n the word count).\n\n\nAbstracts must be submitted, on or before 30 April 
 2019, to\n\n - Dr Romola Adeola romola.adeola@up.ac.za and\n - Prof Bonolo 
 Dinokopila bonolo.dinokopila@mopipi.ub.bwImportant dates\n - Abstracts shou
 ld reach the organisers by 30 April 2019.\n - The most suitable abstracts w
 ill be selected for full development and presentation. The aim is to eventu
 ally (in 2020) publish the papers (in 2020), reworked after their presentat
 ion, in a collection of essays.\n - Abstracts selected for development of a
  full paper and presentation will be made known by 5 May 2019.\n - Fully de
 veloped papers should be submitted, for distribution among Conference parti
 cipants, by 30 June 2019
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