# Event Details

- **Event Name**: ActionNow: Forming Ireland's Response to the refugee and migration crisis
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 09 Jun, 2016 at 09:00 am
- **Event Description**: A CALL TO ACTION AND UNITY:
FORMING IRELAND's RESPONSE TO THE REFUGEE AND MIGRATION CRISIS

Date: 9 & 10 June 2016
Venue: Emmet Theatre, Trinity Conference Centre, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2
#ActionNow

Opening address by President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins

Globally, migration is at a crossroads. With 50 million people experiencing displacement, and other forms of migration increasing, the question of how individual states and bodies such as the European Union react to a new migration reality has never been more pressing. In a context where people fleeing war, terrorism, human rights abuses, climate change and poverty will take whatever means are available to them to travel, however dangerous, many believe that the expansion and strengthening of legal migration channels, coupled with an increased investment in integration and close cooperation between state and non-state actors, is the future. What is required is a sustainable response which informs a vision of future global migration and respects human rights and dignity.

This conference will consider the current refugee and migration crisis and seek to inform a humanitarian response, both nationally and at an EU level.  The aim of the dialogue is to share information and expertise and to develop legal and policy strategies which place human rights at the forefront of Ireland’s and the EU’s response.  An overarching theme of the conference will be the need for innovative responses to the current crisis which involve close cooperation and collaboration between state actors, non-governmental agencies and communities. 

Key Speakers include:
•	Demetrios G. Papademetriou
Distinguished Senior Fellow, Co-Founder and President Emeritus of the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), and President of MPI Europe
•	UNHCR Ireland
•	Médicins Sans Frontières Ireland
•	Safe Passage UK
•	Italian Red Cross
•	Amnesty International Ireland
•	Irish Refugee Council
•	Nasc, the Irish Immigrant Support Centre

Discussions will include:

•	A high-level panel of speakers will provide an overview on the governance challenges posed 
•	Consideration of the experiences of NGOs working on the frontline in various countries; exploration of the strategies and responses that are being developed
•	A response from national stakeholders to the crisis
•	‘Promising practices’ in countries throughout the EU
•	National and international legal perspectives on such issues as the EU-Turkey deal and the sustainability or otherwise of the current European approach
•	An exploration and consideration of the responses at EU level and the policy/legislative impact of the crisis
•	Following the conference the Immigrant Council of Ireland will draft recommendations to form a Call to Action and Unity in Ireland and the EU

Please RSVP to events@Immigrantcouncil.ie before Friday, 3 June 2016
Conference will run from 9.20am to 5pm on Thursday, 9 June and 9.30am to 1.30pm on Friday, 10 June
Registration from 8.45am on Thursday, 9 June, all conference delegates must be registered and seated by 9.20am
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/dublin/actionnow-forming-irelands-response-to-the-refugee-and-migration-crisis/846373325474459
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 0

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Dublin
- **state**: DN
- **country**: Ireland
- **location**: Trinity College Dublin (TCD)
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- **long**: -6.2570668626744
- **full address**: Trinity College Dublin (TCD), Dublin, Ireland

## Event gallery

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is ActionNow: Forming Ireland's Response to the refugee and migration crisis being held?
  - **A:** ActionNow: Forming Ireland's Response to the refugee and migration crisis takes place on Thu, 09 Jun, 2016 at 09:00 am to Thu, 09 Jun, 2016 at 09:00 am at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), Dublin, Ireland.

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