Documentation for 2010 High Commissioner's Dialogue on Protection Challenges

Protection Gaps and Responses

General

• Annotated Agenda, 2 December 2010 (also available in French)
• List of Participants, 17 December 2010 (English/French)
• Concept Paper: Protection Gaps and Responses, September 2010 (also available in Arabic, French, Russian and Spanish)
• Background Paper: Protection Gaps and Responses, November 2010 (also available in Arabic, French, Russian and Spanish)

Break-out Session 1: Gaps in International Protection Framework

• Note on International Protection, A/AC.96/1085, 30 June 2010 (also available in Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish)
• Agenda for Protection, Third edition, October 2003 (also available in Arabic, French, Russian and Spanish)
• Climate Change, Migration and Displacement: Who Will be Affected?, Inter-Agency Standing Committee, 31 October 2008
• Climate Change and Statelessness: An Overview, 15 May 2009 (also available in Spanish)

Break-out Session 2: Burden-Sharing and Comprehensive Approaches

Burden-Sharing

• International Cooperation and Burden and Responsibility Sharing in Mass Influx Situations, ExCom Conclusion No. 100 (LV), 8 October 2004 (also available in French and Spanish)
• International Solidarity and Refugee Protection, ExCom Conclusion No. 52 (XXXIX), 10 October 1988 (also available in French and Spanish)
• Protection of Asylum-Seekers in Situations of Large-Scale Influx, ExCom Conclusion No. 22 (XXXII), 21 October 1981 (also available in French and Spanish)

Comprehensive Approaches

• Making Comprehensive Approaches to Resolving Refugee Problems More Systematic, FORUM/2004/7, 16 September 2004 (also available in French)
• Comprehensive and Regional Approaches within a Protection Framework, ExCom Conclusion No. 80 (XLVII), 11 October 1996 (also available in French and Spanish)
• Note on International Protection, ExCom Conclusion No. 62 (XLI), 5 October 1990 (also available in French and Spanish)

Break-out Session 3: Statelessness

• Protecting the Rights of Stateless Persons: The 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons, September 2010 (also available in Spanish)
• Preventing and Reducing Statelessness: The 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, September 2010 (also available in Spanish)
• UNHCR Action to Address Statelessness - A Strategy Note, March 2010
• Human rights and arbitrary deprivation of nationality, United Nations Human Rights Council resolution A/HRC/RES/13/2, 14 April 2010 (also available in Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish)
• Statelessness: An Analytical Framework for Prevention, Reduction and Protection, 1 February 2009 (also available in French, Russian and Spanish)
• Nationality and Statelessness: A Handbook for Parliamentarians, October 2005 (updated August 2008) (also available in Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish)

Side-Event: Climate Change and Displacement

• Protecting Environmentally Displaced People: Developing the capacity of legal and normative frameworks, Presentation by Professor Roger Zetter, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, 8 December 2010
• Climate Change Displacement and International Law, Presentation by Jane McAdam, Associate Professor, University of New South Wales, 8 December 2010