Civil Society Parallel Events and Activities on Migration, Development and Human Rights

Activities under the Civil Society Parallel Events on Migration, Development and Human Rights*

September 12, 2006

(1) Lobbying/Embassy Hopping

September 12 is dedicated to conducting lobbying work with key permanent government missions (embassies) in New York so that the civil society could raise its concerns about the UNHLD process, deliver position papers and discuss key issues on migration and development from a civil society perspective.
Venue: Queens College Worker Education Extension Center located at 25 W 43rd Street Between 5th & 6th, New York City
Time: 9:00 to 9:15 am for the FINAL BRIEFING

(2) International Migrants Rights Solidarity and Cultural Evening

To raise awareness, dialogue, and connect migrants rights struggles from around the world with the local migrant/immigrant rights struggles in New York and the US
Venue: Judson Memorial Church (55 Washington Square South, between Thompson & Sullivan Streets)
Time: 6:00 to 9:00 pm

September 13-15, 2006

Community Dialogue on Migration, Development and Human Rights

To highlight key migration issues from a community perspective, share experiences on how migrant response organizations in various countries and regions are working to achieve international recognition and enforcement of migrants’ human rights, collectively inform participants on the intended goals of the UNHLD and its policy implications for global migration, human rights and development.

Topics:
1. Global Economic Systems: Empty Promises for Developing Countries and Forced Migration
2. War and Armed Conflict and its Impact on Local and Migrant Populations
3. Shared Responsibilities and Co-Development between sending and destination countries: Creating Strategies for Compensation and Remittances
4. Strategies for Advancing the Rights of Undocumented Migrant Workers in the Global Economy
5. National Immigration Policy Regimes: The ‘Race to the Bottom’ & Challenges for the Implementation of International Migrants Human Rights Standards
6. Enforcing Borders: An International Snapshot of How Border Enforcement Violates Core Standards of Migrants Human Rights
7. The Abuse of Migrant Workers with Impunity
8. The Feminization of Migration
9. The Migration-Trafficking Nexus
10 The Global Strategy Session for Migrant Domestic Workers Rights
11. Migrant LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered) Rights

Venue: Queens College Worker Education Extension Center located at 25 W 43rd Street Between 5th & 6th, New York City
Time: 9:00 to 5:00 pm


For interviews and more information, please contact:

Joey Dimaandal, Media Officer for the MRI Civil Society Parallel Events during the United Nations High-Level Dialogue on Migration and Development in New York City
Tel: +639175267171, +639278775810
Email: j-mod@rocketmail.com
Address: West Side YMCA, 5 West 63rd Street between Broadway and Central Park West, New York City.

Arnoldo Garcia (For Spanish language media organizations), National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights www.nnirr.org
Tel +1 510 928 0685
Email: agarcia@nnirr.org

* MFA is a regional network of 260 migrant workers associations, trade unions and NGOs in Asia. The contact information of MFA:
Regional Coordinator: William Gois
Address: 59-B Malumanay Street, Teachers’ Village West, Quezon City, Philippines
Email address: mfa@pacific.net.hk Web: www.mfasia.org

** Migrant Rights International has members in Asia, Europe, North America and Latin America.