The European Union Qualification Directive is the first supranational instrument to seek to harmonize complementary protection (termed `subsidiary protection` in the EU). Though it has shifted complementary protection beyond the realm of ad hoc domestic practices to a codified regime, it...

This essay in the Changing Perspectives on Human Rights: Climate Change, Justice and Human Rights report discusses the evidence and available tools to address human movement linked to the adverse effects of climate change. In doing so, it offers insights into associated human rights...

In the past three years, there has been significant progress on both the conceptual and practical dimensions of displacement related to climate change and disasters. In October 2015, 109 states endorsed the Agenda for the Protection of Cross-Border Displaced Persons in the Context of Disasters...

Members of the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law at UNSW Sydney provided this submission to the Inquiry into the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for Australia’s foreign affairs, defence and trade.The Kaldor Centre is the world’s leading research centre dedicated to the study...

As the Director of the Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law at UNSW Sydney, Jane McAdam provided a short submission to the Senate Select Committee on Temporary Migration. One of the Kaldor Centre’s areas of expertise is mobility in the context of climate change and...

Further to Submission 40 - Inquiry into Strengthening Australia’s Relationships with Countries in the Pacific Region, further materials on the integration and settlement outcomes for Pacific Islanders who moved to New Zealand under the Pacific Access Cateogory and Samoan Quota are provided in...

The Policy Brief series showcases high quality, policy-relevant research on issues relating to forced migration and international refugee law. The views expressed in the Policy Brief are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for...

Jane McAdam and Guy S. Goodwin-Gill submitted on behalf of the Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law at UNSW Sydney this submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights in relation to its scrutiny of federal bills and instruments which deal substantially...

For the past twenty years, domestic courts and tribunals have been called upon periodically to consider whether the state is precluded from deporting people to places where they face risks arising from the impacts of climate change. In the popular imagination, these cases have concerned...