Draft Program
June 22, 2007 by globalcommunityforum
DETAILS
- Dates: 8:30 AM Tuesday, 10 July – 1 PM Wednesday 11 July 2007
- Location: Unless otherwise announced, all events are scheduled at:
The ACV-CSC (Trade Union Building)
19 rue Pletinckx
1000 Brussels, Belgium
Tel + 32/2/508.87.11; Fax 32/2/508.89.99
which is in the Brussels city center,
close to the De Brouckère metro (Line 1A)stop
and the main square (Grand Place/Grote Markt).
- Participants: NGOs and members of civil society, including but not limited
to civil society participants at the Civil Society Forum on Migration and
Development (held in Brussels on 9 July 2007.)
- Languages: We are making an effort to arrange simultaneous translation
from English-French-Spanish.
- Fee: 25 euros (please note that this fee helps
Migrant Rights International
to cover some costs of organizing the event.)
Programme (draft 15 June)
- The format of all plenary sessions and workshops will highly value strategic thinking, action-oriented participation and dialogue by NGOs and other civil society actors.
- Concrete recommendations will be actively sought and recorded throughout the forum, brought back to the plenary Wednesday morning, and used as a reference for media and political contacts throughout the two days and beyond.
- Specific next steps—in particular those that relate to action between now and the next Global Forum on Migration and Development, which will be held in the Philippines in 2008—will be recorded and shared by the organizers after the forum with the widest circle of NGOs and others in civil society concerned with migration and development.
Tuesday 10 July 2007
8:30 AM Registration and coffee.
9 -10:30 Opening Plenary: Debriefing and Dialogue.
Observations, impressions, messages that
need greater attention and next steps.
A panel-facilitated dialogue with a principal
focus on content of the Civil Society Forum on Migration and Development (held on July 9 2007)
10:30 – 11 Coffee break and networking
11 – 12:30 Second Plenary: The State of the Human Rights
of Migrants.
A presentation and open discussion
Speaker(s) to be confirmed.
12:30 – 2 Break for lunch in any of the area restaurants or squares.
2 – 3:30 First Cycle of Workshops:
1. Domestic Workers Forum I
Human Rights Watch
2. Regional Policy Developments Concerning the Rights
Of (Undocumented) Migrant Workers
PICUM and the National Employment Law Project (NELP);
Tentatively scheduled - to be confirmed.
3. Concrete Programming in Migration & Development I:
How the European Union Frames and Funds It
Representatives of the European Commission;
moderated by the International Catholic Migration Commission
4. Advocacy, Campaigning and Activities for Change:
Planning for 2007
December 18 and TIGRA (the Transnational Institute for
Grassroots Research and Action) to be confirmed
3:30 – 4 Coffee break and networking
4 – 5:30 Second Cycle of Workshops:
5. Domestic Workers Forum II
Human Rights Watch
6. International Trade and Migration Policies
National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR)
7. Concrete Programming in Migration & Development II:
How NGOs Already Do Migration and Development
An NGO panel and open conversation including representatives
of the European Commission;
moderated by the International Catholic Migration Commission
8. Detentions and Deportations
Tentatively scheduled - to be confirmed.
9. The UN Migrant Workers Convention: Campaigns for Ratification
December 18 together with the IPMWC/EPMWR.
Wednesday 11 July 2007
8:30 AM Gathering and coffee.
9- 10:30 Third Plenary: Report Back from Workshops.
A facilitated dialogue seeking to share
concrete recommendations and specific next steps
10:30 – 11.30 Coffee break and networking on conclusions and key messages
11.30 – 1 Closing Plenary: Key Global Community Dialogue
Conclusions and Messages.
A panel-facilitated dialogue with a principal
focus on clear and simple messages for media and
political contact and planning going forward.
TBA: Media contact or event
