Additional Opportunities
World Refugee Day, June 20th, 2017
World Refugee Day has been marked on June 20th, ever since the UN General Assembly, in December of 2000, adopted resolution 55/76 where it noted that 2001 marked the 50th anniversary of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, and that the Organization of African Unity (OAU) had agreed to have International Refugee Day coincide with Africa Refugee Day on June 20th.
In a world where violence forces hundreds of families to flee each day, the UN Refugee Agency believes now is the time to show world leaders that the global public stands with refugees, and it will launch its #WithRefugees petition on June 20th to send a message to governments that they must work together and do their fair share for refugees.
The #WithRefugees petition will be delivered to UN headquarters in New York ahead of the UN High Level Meeting on Refugees and Migrants, scheduled for the 19th September. The petition asks governments to:
Ensure every refugee child gets an education.
Ensure every refugee family has somewhere safe to live.
Ensure every refugee can work or learn new skills to make a positive contribution
to their community.
Click here to sign the petition.
UN Security Council Crisis Simulation on Protection of Civilians (late May course offering at Fairfield - open to students from any College/University)
Description
This UN Security Council simulation focuses on Protection of Civilians (“PoC”—in UN-talk), one of several thematic areas of the work of the Security Council. Grounded in international humanitarian law (“IHL”) and human rights law, PoC gained renewed urgency in the 1990s, especially in the aftermath of widespread protection failures as evidenced by the Rwandan Genocide, the wars in the former Yugoslavia, East Timor, or the Democratic Republic of the Congo. By 1999, PoC had become a separate thematic agenda item of the Security Council. UN reforms have also contributed to the normative framework and practices of PoC, including the Global Protection Cluster chaired by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and the Responsibility to Protect (“RtoP” or “R2P”).
Goals
Students will simulate the work of the Security Council on PoC on real world events, in real time. They will learn the procedures and practices of the Security Council and how to use them to negotiate a Security Council document, such as a resolution, presidential statement or press release on PoC. Representing member states of the Security Council, students will learn the possibilities and limitations for Council action, given states’ and key stakeholders’ interests (e.g. on peacekeeping, gender based violence, human rights, rights of children). For the final exam, students will draft a concept note on some specific aspect of Protection of Civilians that their member state might introduce subsequently as a follow up, write a brief analysis of that and a personal reflection of their experience in the simulation.
Register by May 17th here: https://www.fairfield.edu/academics/part-timestudies/summersession/
Internships in Humanitarianism and Social Justice
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