News & Events
The ARRA team is once again in Geneva in June and July 2012 attending the 51st Standing Committee and the Annual Consultations with NGOs as part of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees annual meetings. For more information on the topics and reports from the team, please see the ARRA website at: www.arra.org.au.
- 2011 Refugee Conference
Visit the 2011 Refugee Conference website to view presentations.
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UNSW Arts and Social Sciences congratulates A/Prof Eileen Pittaway who has been recognised in this year's Queen's Birthday honours.
Eileen, Director of the Centre for Refugee Research in the School of Social Sciences, has been appointed as a…
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A UNSW project exposing widespread sexual violence in international refugee camps has resulted in a commitment to act from the UNHCR.
The project, Survivors, Defenders, Providers, led by the Centre for Refugee Research (CRR), focused on at-risk…
Posted: 16th December 2011 -
The UNSW Centre for Refugee Research, partnering with the Refugee Council of Australia and the United Nations Commissioner for Refugees regional office Canberra, is hosting a major conference (14–17 June) to mark the 60th anniversary of the 1951…
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Fourteen refugee women from around the world will travel to Geneva to present their survival stories to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees with support from UNSW’s Centre for Refugee Research.
The UNHCR selected the Centre to…
Posted: 6th May 2011 -
The UNSW Centre for Refugee Research (CRR) has recently received significant funding for two major research and dialogue projects. The global projects, conducted by Centre Director Eileen Pittaway, Deputy Director Linda Bartolomei and their team, will…
Posted: 25th November 2010 2011 marks the 60th anniversary of the 1951 Refugee Convention, a milestone in the recognition of the rights of people displaced by persecution and in the development of an international human rights framework. It is also the 50th anniversary of the…
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Two Arts and Social Sciences academics will shortly receive citations from the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) for their outstanding contributions to student learning. The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences received two out of the five…
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CRR conducts gender audits of UNHCR Standing Committee meeting and Annual Consultations, 2011.
Posted: 9th October 2009 Link: http://www.prw.unsw.edu.au/news.htm
