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Achilles Skordas gives a paper in Beirut on international refugee law

11 March 2016

Professor Achilles Skordas will give a paper at a conference on the status and rights of refugees under domestic and international law, which will take place in Beirut, Lebanon (21-23. March).

Achilles will talk with the topic ‘The Obligations of States towards Refugees in International Law.’ The conference is organized by the UNESCO, the Norwegian Refugee Council,  and the Middle East Bureau of the Agence universitaire de la Francophonie, in the framework of the Doctoral School of the Law of the Middle East (École doctorale de Droit de Moyen Orient – EDDMO).

The conference participants will discuss in particular the situation in Lebanon, a country with a population of six million people that hosts two million Syrian and Palestinian refugees.

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