IBA Annual Conference Mexico City 2024
15 Sep - 20 Sep 2024
PALACIO DE CANAL 6, LEVEL E1
Session information
Immigration detention: challenges, policy and the future
Tuesday 17 September (1430 - 1545)
PALACIO DE CANAL 6, LEVEL E1
Committee(s)
Human Rights Law Committee
(Lead)
Description
Over the course of the two decades of this century, we have seen the rise of the corporate player in immigration detention centres across various jurisdictions. This session will explore the challenges and governance of immigration detention centres, concepts of arbitrary detention and its violations arising worldwide, rights of detainees and potential solutions.
Session / Workshop Chair(s)
| Wajiha Ahmed | Buttar Caldwell and Co Solicitors, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Co-Chair, Human Rights Law Committee |
Speakers
| Sunday Agwu | Public and Private Development Centre (PPDC), Abuja, Nigeria; African Regional Forum Liaison Officer, Human Rights Law Committee |
| Professor Markus Beham | European University Viadrina, Frankfurt, Germany; Co-Vice Chair , Human Rights Law Committee |
| Santiago Corcuera Cabezut | Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle, Mexico City, Mexico |
| Elizabeth Jimenez Mora | Global Rights Advocacy , Grenoble, France |
| Anne O'Donoghue | Immigration Solutions Lawyers, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Vice Chair for Diversity and Inclusion - Global Employment Institute (GEI) |
| Marissa Weber | Marissa Kardon Weber, Washington, District of Columbia, USA; Secretary, Human Rights Law Committee |