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The Agenda PodcastRefugee CrisisSend us a textJune the 20th marked the annual World Refugee Day. And this year the statistics are more troubling than ever - 2024 marked a new record - with almost 130 million people across the world displaced, everywhere from Gaza to Myanmar, Sudan to Venezuela. Last year the UN's Refugee Agency, the UNHCR spent nearly $5bn dollars - less than half of what was needed, thanks largely to governments around the world cutting back on their aid budgets. To discuss the growing crisis, on this edition of The Agenda, Juliet Mann is joined by M...2025-06-2429 min
African DialogueCape Town Refugee CrisisFollowing a Court order to vacate the church and the central business district they have been occupying over the last four months, the foreigners then moved on to occupy a police station and the surroundings of this law enforcement facility. The government and several NGO’S have been scrambling to find a speedy solution to the crisis. Refugees now say they no longer want to remain in South Africa anymore and call for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) to repatriate them to a third country. However, the UNHCR has reiterated it will not be able to resettle th...2020-03-0535 min
African DialogueCape Town Refugee CrisisFollowing a Court order to vacate the church and the central business district they have been occupying over the last four months, the foreigners then moved on to occupy a police station and the surroundings of this law enforcement facility. The government and several NGO’S have been scrambling to find a speedy solution to the crisis. Refugees now say they no longer want to remain in South Africa anymore and call for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) to repatriate them to a third country. However, the UNHCR has reiterated it will not be able to resettle th...2020-03-0535 min
Oxford Transitional Justice Research SeminarsBook Colloquium: ‘Voting Rights of Refugees’Ruvi Ziegler (Reading) discusses his new book with Kirsten McConnachie (Warwick), Matthew Gibney (Oxford), and Liora Lazarus (Oxford) at a joint OTJR/RMLDG event. https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/events/book-colloquium-voting-rights-refugees2017-11-201h 10
Tel Aviv ReviewIndecision makers: How Israel forces asylum seekers into legal limboDr. Ruvi Ziegler, a lecturer in law at the University of Reading, discusses Israel's half-hearted treatment of tens of thousands of African asylum seekers who entered its territory over the last decade, and the mark that they left on Israel's migration law. Song: Berry Saharof This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, which promotes humanistic, democratic, and liberal values in the social discourse in Israel.2016-12-2622 min
tbs eFM PrimetimeEgypt’s Peace Initiative Between Israel and PalestinePrime Interview with Dr. Ruvi Ziegler (School of Law/ University of Reading)2016-07-1500 min
UNSW Kaldor CentreConference 2015 International ComparisonsKaldor Centre for International Refugee Law Conference
PROTECTION ELSEWHERE, BUT WHERE? National, Regional and Global Perspectives on Refugee Law
20 November 2015
Session 2: International comparisons
Chaired by Andrew Kaldor AM, Kaldor Centre Founder
Comparative regional frameworks - Professor Kate Jastram, Executive Director, Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law, Berkeley Law, University of California
Detention of asylum seekers and the Israeli High Court of Justice: The absent–present 1951 Refugee Convention - Dr Ruvi Ziegler, School of Law, University of Reading
Order out of chaos? Seeking refuge and solidarity in Europe - Emeritus Professor Guy S Goodwin-Gill, University of Oxford2015-11-301h 20
Public International Law Discussion Group (Part I) and Annual Global Justice LecturesIndependence referendums and putative citizenship - the Scottish referendum in a global perspectiveDr Ruvi Ziegler, University of Reading - 6 November 20142014-12-1140 min