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SIMON RUSSELL - CURRICULUM VITAE

 

 

RELEVANT RECENT CAREER:

 

 

2000-present:          Refugee Policy Advisor, International Council of Voluntary Agencies. Responsible for: international advocacy on refugee issues, especially the Global Consultations on International Protection and UNHCR EXCOM meetings; relations with UNHCR generally; policy analysis; monitoring and reporting on policy developments; revitalising the PARinAC process; following up the work of the Reach Out for protection; monitoring the CISCONF follow-up and facilitating NGO contributions; carrying out a campaign on a new supervisory mechanism for the Refugee Convention; website maintenance and fund-raising.

 

 

 

1999- 2000:               Policy Officer, European Council on Refugees & Exiles Responsible for: policy analysis, especially of EU initiatives; policy development; relations with UN agencies, OSCE and Council of Europe; research; reporting relevant developments; management of project on learning lessons from Kosovo.

 

1997- 1999:               Refugee Officer, Amnesty International UK. Responsible for: policy analysis, particularly of UK Government and EU initiatives; advocacy, campaigning and lobbying on refugee and human rights issues in the UK and Europe; research into treatment of refugee children; development of and reporting to AI membership; representation of AI at meetings; management of refugee case-load; management of information enquiries.

 

1992- 1997:               Caseworker, Refugee Legal Centre. Responsible for: training and supervising all new staff from 1996; legal representation of a large case-load of refugees to the Home Office and Appellate Authority; policy development in relation to women and children.

 

PUBLICATIONS:

 

2000                                          ECRE Position on Article 1 of the Refugee Convention.

ECRE Position on Complementary Forms of Protection.

 

1999                           Unaccompanied Refugee Children in the United Kingdom.

International Journal of Refugee Law, OUP.

 

1999                           UK Foreign and Asylum Policy: Human Rights Audit 1999.

(section on asylum) Amnesty International UK.

 

1999                           Most Vulnerable of All.

Amnesty International UK.

 

1999                           War and Children. s Rights.

(section on refugee children) Amnesty International UK.

 

1998                           The meaning of . membership of a particular social group. in UK law

in Current Issues of UK Asylum Law and Policy. Ashgate.

 

 

1998                           The UK: signing up for human rights.

(section on refugees and the ECHR) Amnesty International UK.

 

 

 

EDUCATION & TRAINING

 

On-going:                 Extensive training from 1992 onwards in refugee law and human rights and humanitarian law and principles at the Universities of Oxford and Essex, the International Institute of Human Rights (Strasbourg), the Refugee Legal Centre and Amnesty International. Computer training. Attended OSCE pre-deployment training with Parachute Regiment/FCO.

 

1993-94:                     University of Westminster. Diploma in East-West Trade Studies. Certificate in Russian.

 

1985-1989:                University College of Wales. Graduated 2:1 BA (Hons) in Politics          and Russian Studies. Diploma in Russian.

 

1988:                           Comenius University, Bratislava. Diploma in Slovak.

 

1988:                           Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages, Kiev. Diploma in Russian.