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Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law
Through outstanding research and engagement, the Kaldor Centre is renowned as an intellectual powerhouse with global impact
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Research Centre
Challenge
More than 120 million people worldwide are displaced from their homes – the highest number since the Second World War. As world leaders grapple with this challenge, it is an important time for innovative, rigorous thinking to promote solutions. The Kaldor Centre’ s evidence-based research, analysis and engagement bring a crucial, independent dimension to the debate.
Solution
The Kaldor Centre produces world-leading research and provides a credible, principled voice on refugee issues – correcting misinformation, sharing evidence of good practice, and undertaking the deep thinking needed to advance solutions for and with people in need of protection. The centre engages meaningfully to inform public policy debates and connects and resources others in the field. It provides a crucial bridge between research, policy and practice, forging connections to share knowledge and drive real-world change.
Target customers / end-users
The Kaldor Centre actively engages audiences with a creative, strategic approach to ensure its research is accessible and relevant to:
• domestic, regional and international policymakers
• civil society
• the general public.
Progress
The Centre’ s advice reaches policymakers at the highest levels, directly informing outcomes including:
• a pathway to permanency for thousands of people on temporary protection visas
• reform of the tribunal that reviews Australia’ s migration and refugee decisions
• drafting of a world-first Pacific Regional Framework on Climate Mobility.
Multidisciplinary team
Informs courts worldwide
250 researchers
Housing & Connected Communities
The Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law produces world-leading research that supports the development of lawful, sustainable and humane solutions for people in need of protection. It engages meaningfully to inform public policy debates on refugee law and forced migration. It connects and resources others in the field to help generate rights-based solutions to displacement.
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