CORI is holding a two day conference on
10th and 11th June 2010 in London,
drawing together experts and practitioners involved in providing
objective
evidence within asylum proceedings.
Objective evidence is used to
determine whether or not a person’s fear of
persecution is well founded. The
decision making process requires analysis and
opinion from country, medical,
psychological and language experts in assessing
the validity of an applicants
claim for refugee status.
The conference will explore the key issues and
challenges of the following
professional groups, in providing or assessing
objective evidence;
-
COI Researchers
- Country experts
- Language experts
- Medical experts
- Psychological experts
- Immigration Judges
- Legal Representatives
The conference will be
an opportunity for academics, experts, legal
representatives, decision makers
and NGO's to debate;
-
Challenges in producing, assessing and applying
objective evidence
- Commonalities between the professional groups
providing objective evidence
- Best practice
- Professional
standards (as academic, as expert)
- Paradigm clashes between the
standards, assumptions and expectations of academic/professional disciplines and
the nature of evidence as required in a legal context
- Credibility,
impartiality and objectivity
- Legal requirements for objective
evidence
- Instructing experts and commissioning reports
Both days
will feature;
a) two panels made up of single professional groups
discussing the key issues and challenges in providing objective evidence
b)
two workshops exploring judges and lawyers perspectives
c) a final
multi-stakeholder panel discussing commonalities between the professional groups
and areas where professionalism can be strengthened.
Prof. Guy
Goodwin-Gill will be giving the keynote address on the 10th and Suzanne Duff,
Head of RSD at UNHCR will give the keynote on the 11th.
This event will
be of interest to all stakeholders to Refugee Status Determination; Legal
Practitioners, Decision-Makers, COI Researchers, Language, Medical,
Psychological, Country and Thematic experts, NGO's, academics, professionals and
students in the fields of Human Rights, Law, Anthropology, Medicine, Politics,
Psychology, Sociology, Linguistics, Religion and Gender.
For a full list
of speakers and to register please see the attached conference programme or
visit the events page of our website www.cori.org.uk.
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Beth
Collier
Director
Country of Origin Research and Information
(CORI)
t.0208 1444 655
m.07906 832
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