Foreign Policy Centre e-Newsletter - March 2014: Upcoming Shelter from the Storm event, Renegotiation, Reform and Referendum publication and other research

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Foreign Policy Centre e-Newsletter - March 2014

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Upcoming FPC events
All FPC events are free and open to all. If you would like to attend, please email events@fpc.org.uk stating the name of the event(s)
 

Shelter from the storm?

Date: Tuesday 29th April 2014

Time: 6.00pm-7.30pm

Venue: Committee Room 9, House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA

 

Speakers:

• Chris Bryant MP, Shadow Minister and Vice-Chair Russia APPG
• Dr David Lewis, Senior Lecturer, University of Exeter
• Maisy Weicherding, Researcher-Eurasia, Amnesty International
• Jago Russell, Chief Executive, Fair Trials International
• Further speaker to be confirmed

 

Chair: Baroness Stern CBE

 

This Westminster Seminar event will launch a new Foreign Policy Centre publication, kindly supported by the Open Society Foundations, entitled Shelter from the storm? The asylum, refuge and extradition situation facing activists from the former Soviet Union in the CIS and Europe. The event will look at some of the key issues around asylum, extradition, rendition and the provision of refuge for human rights defenders, political and religious activists and other controversial figures from the former Soviet Union once they have fled their country of origin. The seminar will examine to what extent Russia and other CIS countries abide by their own laws and obligations under European and international law, when facing extradition requests from fellow signatories to the Minsk Convention. It will also explore UK and European asylum and immigration policies, their extradition arrangements with former Soviet Union countries and options for the provision of temporary refuge.

 

The Shelter from the Storm event is free and open to all. Please RSVP to events@fpc.org.uk

 

New FPC Publications: 

Renegotiation, Reform and Referendum: Does Britain have an EU future?

The Foreign Policy Centre is delighted to announce the launch of a new publication entitled Renegotiation, Reform and Referendum: Does Britain have an EU future? It examines some of the key issues in the current UK debate over the future of its membership of the European Union. The publication looks at the UK government's attempts to renegotiate Britain's relationship with the EU, the current debate about ideas for possible reform and the implications of the proposed 2017 membership referendum. It looks at how the UK's renegotiation proposals and the wider British debate are regarded in other member states.

 

The publication contains contributions from a diverse range of experts with different viewpoints including: Prof Tim Congdon (University of Buckingham), Dr Richard Corbett, Dr Charles Danreuther (University of Leeds), Sir Stuart Etherington (NCVO), Katja Hall (CBI), Malcolm Harbour MEP, Dr Richard Hayton (University of Leeds),  Adam Hug (ed. Foreign Policy Centre),  Andrea Leadsom MP, Axelle Lemaire (French National Assembly), Prof James Mitchell (University of Edinburgh), Owen Tudor (TUC) and Jan Marinus Wiersma and Adriaan Schout (Clingendael). Please visit http://fpc.org.uk/publications/rrr to download a free copy of Renegotiation, Reform and Referendum. See also a recent Huffington Post article by editor Adam Hug on the findings of the publication.

Iran Human Rights Review: Violence
The Foreign Policy Centre is delighted to announce the launch of the new edition of the Iran Human Rights Review. This edition addresses the critical issue of violence in Iran and how it is used at all levels of society, from the actions of the national government to domestic life, to reinforce the values of the Islamic Republic and prevent challenges to the status quo. The Iran Human Rights Review: Violence tackles a number of important issues from the role of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and the volunteer paramilitary Baseej, the use of the death penalty in spreading fear, the treatment of prisoners and systemic discrimination against women and ethnic and religious minorities in Iran.
 
Edited by Tahirih Danesh (Senior Research Associate, Foreign Policy Centre) and Shadi Sadr (Founder, Justice for Iran), the Iran Human Rights Review: Violence features a range of expert contributions from: Nasrin Afzali, Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam and Tabassom Fanaian (Iran Human Rights), Maedeh Ghaderi, Musa Barzin Khalifeloo, Mahnaz Parakand, Hossein Raeesi and Rouhi Shafii (International Coalition against Violence in Iran-ICAVI). Leading international human rights lawyer Professor Payam Akhavan provides a foreword to the collection. This edition also marks the launch of the new dedicated online home for the Iran Human Rights Review (www.ihrr.org), with the website displaying the new publication in both English and Farsi, and providing access to past issues and other key resources on human rights in Iran.  
 
Recent FPC Articles and Briefings

• FPC Briefing: Carpe Diem- India's 2014 General Elections and the BJP-led NDA by Dr Chris Ogden
• An Association Agreement with a state that may soon cease to exist? by Richard Howitt MEP
• Balancing Ukraine by Dr Kevork Oskanian
• FPC Briefing: Constructing sectarianisms and conflict in the Middle East by Dr Simon Mabon

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