No. MRI/GFMD2008/12 12 September 2008 ENGLISH
RE: Spanish and French PGA Registration Forms, Information About the PGA
Dear friends,
We are sending you information about the Peoples' Global Action on Migration, Development and Human Rights. The attached documents are the Spanish and French forms to register for the event as well as to submit an application to organise an activity.
The same information is available in English at http://www.mfasia.org/peoplesglobalaction/index.html.
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What is the PGA?
The Peoples' Global Action on Migration, Development and Human Rights is a parallel civil society event in relation to the Global Forum on Migration and Development(GFMD). It is independent from the official GFMD process organized by the friends of the Forum and the Philippine Government. The Parallel event will bring together migrants and people's movements to discuss models of migration policy that respects migrants' and all people's human rights, which will require exploration of the full range of issues involved in migration, including the underlying problems of development, poverty, joblessness, and how we can collectively address these.
While there is official civil society days programmed into the GFMD, we understand that these have limited opportunities for mass participation and already highly structured according to the desires and goals of the host government and governments responsible for the GFMD.
This underscores the need for active civil society participation in the upcoming GFMD. As such, we consider it critical that a parallel event be organized that actively engages civil society as broadly as possible, with activities that relate to and directly respond to current conditions for migrant communities worldwide.
The Peoples Global Action will be held on 22-30 October 2008 at Rajah Solayman Park in Manila, Philippines. It will include workshops, panel discussions, mobilizations, time for internal meetings of organizations, space for self-organized workshops, cultural performances, and other activities.
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Thematic Workshops
- Migration and Trade/Labour Union, and Human Rights
(Topics related to labour rights, human rights, undocumented workers, trafficking, smuggling, refugees, living and working conditions of migrant workers)
- Trade, finance, remittances, debt and migration
(GATS MODE 4, WTO, FTAs and EPA, "development" policies, IFIs, use of remittances, impact of debt on development and migration, economic and development alternatives)
3. Governance and Migration
(To include Ethical Recruitment, migration policies and regimes, border control and securitization of migration, Bilaterals /Multilaterals/ Responsibilities of Sending and Receiving Countries)
Emerging themes
(Migration and climate change, children and migration, multiple identities and migration, 'borderless world')
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Schedule of Activities
OCTOBER
22nd- 25th - Self-Organized Activities (Free Activities)
22nd - Soft Opening
25th - Global Plenary Opening
26th - Thematic Workshops
27th - Mobilization activities organized by global unions
28th - Mobilization activities organized by women groups
29th - Mobilization activities organized by development groups
30th - Mobilization activities organized by migrants' organizations
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For more information, please see the website at
http://www.mfasia.org/peoplesglobalaction/index.html.
Sincerely,
Migrants Rights International
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