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This paper presents one example of how ‘the human face of climate change’ has been brought to an international policy arena – the UNFCCC climate negotiations – in a relatively short period of time by a coordinated effort of research and operational organizations. It describes a process that culminated in the Cancun Adaptation Framework, agreed to recently at COP16 (Dec. 2010). It further assesses the current and future complementary roles for research and operational expertise in identifying policy alternatives to address migration and displacement in the context of climate change. The final section of this paper draws conclusions and reflects on policy implications for research and practice.

This study articulates the current state of international law governing detention and its alternatives, and provides a critical overview of existing and possible alternatives to detention (A2Ds) options drawn from empirical research. This study contributes to the body of work of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) against the detention of refugees, asylum-seekers and stateless persons, and forms one of the background papers for the global roundtable on the same subject.

On the practice and justification of Italy's "push-back" operations, i.e. interception or interdiction at sea; the extra-territorial scope of the principle of non-refoulement; the situation of asylum-seekers and refugees in Libya, including reception and detention conditions and risk of refoulement

On the interaction between the 1951 Convention and the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction; scope and the content of the principle of non-refoulement and the prohibition of expulsion.

Member States' responsibility not to transfer an asylum applicant where the receiving State cannot guarantee the fundamental rights of the asylum-seeker.