Malta Conference April 2014
Inclusion or Exclusion: Responding Ethically to Disaster Refugees
University of Malta, Valetta Campus, 24-25 April 2014
Thursday, April 24th 2014
08:45-09:15 | Registration | |||
09:15-09:45 | Welcome and Opening Remarks Professor Pierre Mallia, University of Malta Dr. Jeffrey Pullicino Orland, Chair, Malta Council of Science and Technology Dr. Dónal O’Mathúna, Dublin City University, Ireland; Chair of COST Action IS1201 |
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09:45-11:00 | Human Rights in Crisis: Ethical Responses to Disaster Displacement Lindsey Kingston, Assistant Professor and Director, Institute for Human Rights & Humanitarian Studies, Webster University, Missouri, USA Chair: Professor Janet Mifsud, Malta COST CSO CNC & University of Malta |
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11:00-11:30 | Coffee Break | |||
11:30-13:00 | Working group 1 meeting Healthcare ethics | Working group 2 meeting Bioethics, culture, & moral theory | Working group 3 meeting Research ethics | Working group 4 meeting Ethics & governance |
13:00-14:00 | Lunch | |||
14:00-16:00 | Working group 1 meeting: Healthcare ethics | Working group 2 meeting: Bioethics, culture, & moral theory | Working group 3 meeting: Research ethics | Working group 4 meeting: Ethics & governance |
16:00-16:30 | Coffee Break | |||
16:30-17:00 | Refugee Camps around Palestine Jehad Yatim and Wafa Qumseya, Bioethics Committee, Caritas Baby Hospital, Bethlehem, State of Palestine |
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17:00-17:30 | WG 1 | Why welcome the stranger? Foundations for ethics & refugees Dónal O’Mathúna, Dublin City University, Ireland |
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17:30-18:00 | WG 2&4 | Reducing the risk of natural disasters: is there a role for human rights to play? Karen da Costa, Irish Centre for Human Rights, Ireland and Paulina Pospieszna, University of Poznan, Poland |
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18:00-18:30 | WG 3 | Ethical considerations using off-label and untried medical treatments, medications, technologies and devices in disasters Shlomit Zuckerman, Academic College of Tel Aviv Yaffo, Israel |
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19:00 | Conference Dinner |
Friday, April 25th 2014
08:00-09:00 | Steering Group Meeting | |||
09:15-10:30 | The Plight of African ‘Disaster Refugees’: Ethical Responses to the Root Causes Deogratias Mutayoba Rwezaura, PhD, Regional Director, Jesuit Refugee Service Eastern Africa, Nairobi, Kenya Chair: Johan von Schreeb, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden |
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10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break | |||
11:00-13:00 | Working group 1 meeting Healthcare ethics |
Working group 2 meeting Bioethics, culture, & moral theory |
Working group 3 meeting |
Working group 4 meeting Ethics & governance |
13:00-14:00 | Lunch | |||
14:00-15:00 | Legal Issues for Asylum Seekers Dr. Katrine Camilleri, Director, Jesuit Refugee Service Malta Chair: Professor Pierre Mallia, University of Malta |
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15:00-16:30 | Open Action Discussion Short reports from each WG on their work and plans, and report from the Action Chair on future events. |