Join us for a Symposium on ‘International Protection for the Palestinian People’ on December 9 at 1:00 PM ET, as part of the November 29 – International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People events. The meeting will be virtual.
Speakers:
Francesca P. Albanese
UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Huan Rights in the Palestinian Territories.
Francesca P. Albanese is an international lawyer, researcher, and author of various publications and opinions on Palestinian refugees, the most protracted refugee situation since WWII. Together with Lex Takkenberg, she has recently authored a new book, Palestinian refugees in International Law (OUP, June 2020), which provides a comprehensive overview of the Palestinian refugee question from its origins to the present day through a rigorous legal and historical account. While being a new edition of Takkenberg’s seminal work The Status of Palestinian Refugees in International Law (OUP 1998), Albanese&Takkenberg’s is a new book on the foundation of the first edition, with new contents, from archival and doctrinal research, a review of recent case law and jurisprudence, and new literature on the matter. On top of a clear analysis of the status of Palestinian refugees under various branches of international law –such as IHL, IHRL, IRL, the framework to protect stateless persons– and the ‘distinctive’ regime set up for Palestinian refugees within the international refugee framework (including UNRWA and UNHCR), the book meticulously analyses the status and treatment of Palestinian refugees in about sixty countries across the world and proposes a framework to advance international protection for, and solutions to end the over seventy-year-old plight of, this refugee group.
Elizabeth G. Ferris
Director, Institute for the Study of International Migration.
Dr. Elizabeth Ferris is the Director of the Institute for the Study of International Migration in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She is also an ISIM Research Professor at Georgetown and a non-resident senior fellow in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution. She joined ISIM in Fall 2015 after serving nine years as a Senior Fellow and Co-Director of the Brookings Project on Internal Displacement and as an adjunct professor in Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service. She served as the interim director of ISIM for the 2017-2018 academic year while Dr. Katharine Donato was on sabbatical.
Prior to joining Brookings in November 2006, Elizabeth spent 20 years working in the field of international humanitarian response, most recently in Geneva, Switzerland at the World Council of Churches. She has also served as Chair of the International Council of Voluntary Agencies (ICVA), as Research Director for the Life & Peace Institute in Uppsala, Sweden, as Director of the Church World Service Immigration and Refugee Program in New York. She has been a professor at several U.S. universities and served as a Fulbright professor to the Universidad Autónoma de México in Mexico City. She has written or edited six books and many articles on humanitarian and human rights issues published in academic and policy journals. Her current research interests focus on the politics of humanitarian action and on the role of civil society in protecting displaced populations.
