📣BREAKING: The Government has announced today that the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme now allows for family reunification for those separated during the 2021 Kabul evacuation. This is great news and will be life-changing for all those who have been separated. 1/2

My own contribution to the collection, 'Scurrying to The Hague'.

📣 Interested in applying to funded Master’s at Oxford & other universities? Join Graduate Horizons! 🎓📚 🌐 RLRH will support 80+ students affected by displacement - based anywhere in the world - as they apply for degrees. ‼️ Please share! Details here: rsc.ox.ac.uk/news/rlrh-laun…

The International Journal of Refugee Law is excited to announce that we have just published a thematic double issue on gender! academic.oup.com/ijrl/issue/36/…

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📢 (1/7) New thematic issue of the International Journal of Refugee Law on #Gender 💡 Edited by WiRL member Kate Jastram & Catherine Dauvergne 🌐 Read the editorial: bit.ly/3SDNwzh #womeninrefugeelaw #genderandrefugeelaw

An amazing organisation working to protect women and girls from violence: refugeewomen.co.uk/statement-riot…

A privilege to contribute to this IJRL Special Issue on Gender, a collection that provides "inspiration and analysis". Thank you to all involved, including Prof Catherine Dauvergne & Prof Kate Jastram. academic.oup.com/ijrl/article/3…

‘A Conservative government made right-wing populism a central part of its platform. The damage done on this front by the Johnson-Truss-Sunak government needs to be recognised.’ Daniel Trilling (Daniel Trilling) on the riots in the UK, from the blog: lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/augu…

'We stand together in opposition to violence, racism and Islamophobia.' VC Prof Irene Tracey has written a joint message with leaders from Oxford Health NHS FT, Oxford City Council, Oxfordshire County Council & Oxford Brookes University following scenes of violent disorder across the UK. Read the full letter ⬇️

'This week we’ve again seen Oxford at its best, and it’s all the more important because the violence people feared was over here, not over there.' Our latest blog 👇 asylum-welcome.org/unity/

Things are terrible right now in the world, but the arrival of the book baby has made things feel a little better today. Available now online and in bookshops ODID RefugeeStudiesCentre Brasenose News Christ Church

Migration: economics, policy and public opinion. "New arrivals contributed “much more” to the health services and social care than they consumed" Good roundup of the evidence by Peter Foster ft.com/content/5a00c1…

BREAKING!!!: UK Government suspends weapons exports to Israel following threat of new legal action by GLAN and Al-Haq الحق This afternoon, we learnt that the Government has suspended 30 export licenses for arms sales to Israel. This news comes immediately after GLAN & Al-Haq

🚨BREAKING Our new report #CoercionAndControl shows that women who have fled gender-based violence: ❌Are subjected to coercion & control in hotel accommodation ❌akin to patterns they have experienced in previous abusive relationships & situations refugeewomen.co.uk/coercion-and-c… 1/🧵

We would like to thank all the women who generously gave up their time to participate in this research. We are so grateful. We hope the report results in the change that is so desperately needed. Real the full report, #CoercionAndControl, here: refugeewomen.co.uk/coercion-and-c… 14/14

Thrilled to be in Vilnius this week for #ESIL2024! Grateful for the chance to present my research on the legal, practical & ethical challenges of using genetic tracing & DNA testing in the repatriation of Ukrainian children forcibly transferred to Russia UCL Risk and Disaster Reduction

Call for papers: Recognizing Refugees. Join me and Cathryn Costello at University College Dublin on April 11 2025 for a workshop on Refugee Admission, Relocation and Recognition Practices in Comparative and Transnational Social Sciences. Details attached! dropbox.com/scl/fi/lihczkl…

Delighted to spread this news. Professor Dapo Akande is an exceptional international lawyer and member of the prestigious International Law Commission. We will be doing all we can to support his ICJ candidacy.

Lawyers from our team along with Matrix are on Diego Garcia for a highly significant 3-day hearing, where twelve of our clients, including four children, have been held for almost three years in dire conditions they argue amount to as unlawful detention. More below: