Conference on Internal Displacement in Asia - List of Participants

Bangkok, Thailand, February 22-24, 2000

I. REPRESENTATIVES OF NGOs, ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS, HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSIONS AND MEDIA IN ASIAN COUNTRIES

Afghanistan Marcus J. Dolder, Head of ICRC Delegation, Kabul Ahmad Fahim Hakim, Cooperation for Peace and Unity (CPAU)

Bangladesh C.R. Abrar, Coordinator, Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit (RMMRU) and Professor, Department of International Relations, University of Dhaka Jamil H. Chowdhury, General Manager, Programme for Research on Poverty Alleviation, Grameen Trust, Grameen Bank

Cambodia Latt Ky, Head of Monitoring, ADHOC, Phnom Penh Shaun Williams, Coordinator, Land Study Project, OXFAM, Phnom Penh

China Dai Qing, author, Beijing

East Timor Father Barreto, Caritas Dili

India Subir Bhaumik, Eastern India Correspondent, BBC, Calcutta Mrinal Kanti Chakma, General Secretary, Chittagong Hill Tracts Displaced Peoples' Organisation, Calcutta Omprakash Mishra, Coordinator, Center for Refugee Studies, Jadavpur University, Calcutta

Indonesia Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Koesparmono Irsan, Rector, Bhayangkara University and Member National Commission on Human Rights, Jakarta Pusat Agung Ayu, Volunteer Team for Humanity, Jakarta

Laos Keedaeng Thammalangsy, Secretary-General, Lao Red Cross

Malaysia Hisham Harun Hashim, Chairman, IHL and Legal Affairs Committee, Malaysian Red Crescent Society, Kula Lumpur, Malaysia

Myanmar (Burma) Jack Dunford, Director, Burmese Border Consortium, Bangkok, Thailand Aung Htoo, Secretary-General, Burma Lawyers Council, Bangkok, Thailand Azeen Salimi, Assistant Country Manager, Medecins Sans Frontieres - Holland, Yangon

Nepal Dev Ratna Dhakwa, Secretary-General, Nepalese Red Cross Society (NRCS), Kathmandu

Korea, Republic of (South) Erica Kang, Co-ordinator of International Affairs, Good Friends: Center for Peace, Human Rights and Refugees, North Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Pakistan Syed Sikander Mehdi, Chairman, Department of International Relations, University of Karachi, Karachi I.A. Rehman, Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, Lahore

Philippines Lourdes F. Go-Zurbano, Executive Director, Ecumenical Commission for Displaced Families and Communities, Quezon City Mercedes V. Contreras-Danenberg, Commission on Human Rights, Quezon City

Sri Lanka Arjuna Aluwihare, Commissioner, Sri Lankan Human Rights Commission - see Regional Organizations, Asia-Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions Mario Gomez, Lecturer in Public Law and Feminist Legal Studies, University of Colombo, Colombo Jeevan Thiagarajah, Executive Director, Consortium of Humanitarian Agencies, Colombo

Thailand Supang Chantavanich, Director of Institute of Asian Studies, the Asian Research Center for Migration, University of Chulalongkorn, Bangkok Alternate: Shakti Paul, Project Director Alternate: Andreas Germerhausen, Asian Research Center for Migration, University of Chulalongkorn, Bangkok Somchai Homla-Or, Secretary-General, Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM ASIA), Bangkok Alternate: Evelyn Balais Serrano, Consultant, Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM ASIA), Bangkok Boonthan T. Verawangse, Coordinator, Peace and Human Rights Program, Asian Cultural Forum on Development (ACFOD) and Secretary, Asia Pacific NGO Facilitating Team, Bangkok Alternate: Bantorn Ondam, ACFOD, Bangkok

II. REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS IN ASIA

South Asia Forum for Human Rights (SAFHR) Tapan K. Bose, Secretary-General, Kathmandu, Nepal

Asia-Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions Arjuna Aluwihare, Commissioner, Sri Lankan Human Rights Commission, Wariyapola Sri Sumangala Mawatha, Kandy

III. INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Janvier de Riedmatten, Deputy Regional Representative, Bangkok, Thailand Alternate: Indrika Ratwatte, Senior Regional Protection and Liason Officer, Bangkok, Thailand Irene Khan, Deputy Director, Division of International Protection, Geneva, Switzerland Wei Ming Lim-Kabaa, Senior Regional Legal Adviser, Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific, UNHCR Headquarters Gottfried Koefner, Head of Liaison Office, Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Bo Schack, Senior Protection Officer, Sri Lanka, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Representative of U.N Secretary-General on Internally Displaced Persons Francis M. Deng, Co-Director, Project on Internal Displacement, The Brookings Institution Sivanka Dhanapala, NY Representative of mandate, United Nations, New York, New York

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Francis Amar, Head of International Organizations Division, Geneva, Switzerland Marcus J. Dolder, Head of Delegation, Kabul, Afghanistan

International Organization for Migration (IOM) Regina Boucault, Chief of Mission, Bangkok, Thailand

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Erin Mooney, Office of the Representative of the Secretary-General on Internally Displaced Persons, Geneva, Switzerland

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Andrea Lee Esser, Gender Specialist, East Asia and Pacific Regional Office, Bangkok, Thailand

World Food Programme (WFP) Michael Sackett, Representative and Country Director, Afghanistan

IV. INTERNATIONAL NGOS

CARITAS - see East Timor

Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) Mona Laczo, Policy and Information Officer, Asia Pacific Regional Office, Bangkok, Thailand

Human Rights Watch/Asia Gary Risser, Washington, D.C.

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) - see Myanmar (Burma)

Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) Steinar Sorlie, Secretary-General, Oslo, Norway Marc Vincent, Coordinator, Global IDP Project, Geneva, Switzerland

OXFAM - see Cambodia

U.S. Committee for Refugees (USCR) Hiram Ruiz, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C.

Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children Judy Benjamin, New York, New York

V. INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS

The Brookings Institution Roberta Cohen, Co-Director, Project on Internal Displacement, Washington, D.C. Francis M. Deng, Co-Director, Project on Internal Displacement, Washington, D.C.

Burmese Ethnic Research Group Steven Lanjouw, Chiangmai University, Chiangmai, Thailand

Center for Refugee and Disaster Studies, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health Court Robinson, Baltimore, Maryland

University of Bern Faculty of Law Walter Kalin, Seminar fur Offentliches Recht, Bern, Switzerland

VI. SEMINAR SECRETARIAT Chalida Tajaroensuk, Forum Asia Anna Wang Heed, UNHCR Bangkok Amara Lohvithee, UNHCR Bangkok Gimena Sanchez-Garzoli, The Brookings Institution

VII. RAPPORTEURS Wei Ming Lim Kabaa, principal rapporteur Sivanka Dhanapala and Steven Lanjouw, co-rapporteurs