The 2024 Red Cross Oration will explore the challenges faced by the 110 million forcibly displaced people worldwide and advocate for collective action and solutions.

Amidst a backdrop of global conflict, political unrest, and the escalating impacts of climate change, forced displacement remains one of the most pressing challenges of our time. At the end of June 2023, the UNHCR reported that a staggering 110 million people had been forcibly displaced from their homes due to persecution, conflict, violence, human rights violations or events seriously disturbing the public order. To put this into perspective, that’s more than four times the population of Australia.

So how should governments, communities and individuals respond to the global humanitarian need? And what part does a country like Australia, or even a remote island like Tasmania, have to play?

This talk will go behind the headlines and explore the challenges associated with forced displacement and migration. Join the director of the Red Cross’ global centre for migration research, the University’s leading expert on international refugee law, and a passionate human rights activist who has experienced displacement firsthand for this in-depth discussion, and consider possible solutions, advocacy efforts, and the pressing need for collective action.

Presenters:
Sanushka Mudaliar, Director, Red Cross Red Crescent Global Migration Lab, hosted by Australian Red Cross
Arad Nik, Human Rights Activist, Refugee and Business Owner
Hosted by Dr Tamara Wood, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Tasmania

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Uprooted And Unprotected: 110 Million Displaced Lives

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