DAY 1 – FRAMEWORKS AND CHALLENGES (Thursday 29 November)

One Billion Strong – Presentation of the Doha Shafallah Statement
Minister The Hon Jenny Macklin MP (video statement)
Yanghee Lee – Creating New Futures for All: The promise of International Human Rights Law

Plenary Session 2

CHAIR: Professor Kim Rubenstein

Ron McCallum AO The CRPD, the Millennium Development Goals and Asia's "Make the Right Deal" Campaign
Kelly Ryan Gaps and challenges in the US system for Unaccompanied Refugee Children and Youth
Mary Crock – ‘Of Putative Children and Relative rights: Re-thinking the critical framework for the protection of refugee children and youth’

Breakout Session 1

1. Asylum

• CHAIR: Dr Salim Farrar (Sydney University)
• Ben Schokman and Rachel Ball (Human Rights Legal Centre) - Effective follow-up and implementation of UN recommendations (regarding upcoming reviews of Australia’s compliance to the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities’.
• Mary Anne Kenny (Curtin University) – ‘Age determination of unaccompanied minors seeking asylum in Australia’
• Lenni Benson (New York Law School) and Claire R. Thomas (African Services Committee ) – ‘Children Caught in the Web of Bureaucratic Borders’

2. Children and Citizenship

• CHAIR: Sandy Gifford  (Swinburne)
• Kim Rubenstein (ANU) – ‘Citizenship and children’s rights: An examination of Australian citizenship in light of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child’
• Jacqueline Field (ANU) – ‘Considering children as individuals: Achieving Adequate Protection of Children’s Best Interests in Australian immigration and citizenship law’
• Alexis Wallace (University of Sydney, Migration Review Tribunal): ‘Setting the Record Straight: misrepresented identity and the consequences of correcting a child’s name or date of birth’

3. Displacement, Development and Vulnerability

• CHAIR: Laura Smith-Khan (Sydney University)
• Narumon (Pan) Changboonmee (Monash) – ‘Thailand and the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child: Is it effective for migrant children?’
• Allison deFranco and Kelly Bunch (One Billion Strong)  - ‘Inclusive Education in the Context of Displacement’
• Irene Connie Tumwebaze (UNHCR Uganda - via Skype) – ‘Inclusion of refugee children and young people, including those with disabilities, in policy and program development’

Plenary Session 3

• CHAIR: Associate Professor Judy Cashmore (Sydney University)
• Anne Graham (Southern Cross University) – Participation in research with children
• John Tobin (Melbourne University) – Participation in research with refugee children
• Rosemary Kayess (for Michael Stein)
• Dr Angela Coco, Bradley Shipway, Robert Lingard (Southern Cross University) – ‘Regions of refuge: establishing egalitarian research relationships with refugees and their supporters in a regional area.’

Drinks and Canapes

Announcement of winners of Art Competition

CONFERENCE DINNER

Speaker: The Hon Safak Pavey, Turkish Parliament, UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

DAY 2: TOWARDS BEST PRACTICE (Friday 30 November)

Plenary Session 4

CHAIR: The Honorable Justice Margaret Beazley AO(NSW Court of Appeals)

Her Excellence Professor Marie Bashir AC, Governor of NSW and Chancellor of the University of Sydney

Panel discussion
Moderator: The Hon Safak Pavey (Turkish Parliament, UN Committee on the rights of Persons with Disabilities
Panellist: Rick Towle (UNHCR Representative for Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific)
Panellist: Kate Pope PSM (Department of Immigration and Citizenship)
Panellist: Yanghee Lee (Vice Chair, Committee on the Rights of the Child)
Panellist: Norman Gillespie (Chief Executive for Australian Committee for UNICEF Limited)

Plenary Session 5

CHAIR: Margaret Piper (Sydney University)

Louise Newman AM (Monash University) - Mental health of young refugees: better approaches to identification of those at risk and interventions

Carmel Guerra (Centre for Multicultural Youth) – Best practice in settlement.

Ben Saul (University of Sydney) – ‘Finding Paths out of Darkness or Secret Justice? The way forward for ASIO’s Security Assessments’

Breakout Session 2

1. Settlement

• CHAIR: Graham Thom (Amnesty International)
• Margaret Piper AM (University of Sydney)- I might be OK but don’t leave me alone: How young people from refugee backgrounds view settlement
• Donna Carroll (Multicultural Development Association) – Young people and settlement.
• Jennifer Burn (UTS) - Forced marriages in refugee/migrant communities in Australia.

2. Identifying vulnerability

• CHAIR: Mary Anne Kenny (Curtin University)
• Mary Crock, Laura Smith-Khan, Katariina Sario (University of Sydney) – Promote, Protect and Ensure: Overcoming obstacles to the indentification of disability in refugee populations
• Kate Temby (Australian Human Rights Commission) – An age of uncertainty: Assessing the age of Indonesian crew suspected of people smuggling offences in Australia
• Anna Copeland (Murdoch University) – Children’s rights and migration Law; are they mutually exclusive

3. Refugees and Disability

• CHAIR: Ron McCallum AO (Sydney University)
• Mansha Mirza (Northwestern University - via Skype) – Access to Health and Rehabilitation Care for Children and Youth with Disabilities in Displacement Camps
• Emma Pearce (Women’s Refugee Commission) – ‘“Who will take care of them like me?”: Children and youth with disabilities in urban and camp based refugee contexts’

• Louisa Willoughy (Monash University) – Deaf children and youth from refugee backgrounds: pressing issues and possible solutions’

Report back from Breakout: Principles of Good Practice