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 .