Included in the Co-operation Programme in the Legal Field between the European Union and Macao and starting tomorrow, November 14, at 6:30 pm, in the Legal and Judicial Training Centre (Luso-International Bank Building, 18th floor), is a Seminar on Refugee Law.

The training course will have as speakers Guy S. Goodwin-Gill, Professor of International Law at the University of Oxford and Senior Research Fellow at the All Souls College, and Sharon Rusu, Independent Humanitarian Affairs Consultant in Ferney-Voltaire, France.

The seminar will take place daily, between 6:30 and 8:30 pm, until Friday, November 18. Throughout the five days the approached subjects will be “International Law, International Organisation and the Refugee”, “ Who are Refugees?”, “Asylum and Non-Refoulement”, “Understanding the causes of Refugee Displacement”, “Research and the Use of Country of Origin Information in Applying the Refugee Definition” and “International Organisations and the Challenges of Displacement”.

The seminar is organised by the Legal and Judicial Training Centre, will be conducted in English and addresses to law degree holders.

The Co-operation Programme in the Legal Field between the European Union and Macao, in which this seminar is integrated, has as its main objective the “Consolidation of the Macao Legal System”. Currently in its fourth year of execution, the Co-operation Programme will proceed until February 2007. The total budget for the programme is of 1.980.000 euros, shared in equal parts by the European Union and Macao.

The co-ordination of the Co-operation Programme is at the responsibility of the International Law Office, being the organisation of the pertaining activities ensured by several other entities of the MSAR’s Government, namely the Legal and Judicial Training Centre, the Legal Affairs Bureau, the Economic Services and the Institute of European Studies, other than the International Law Office itself.