No. MRI/GFMD2008/13                  23 September 2008                  ENGLISH

Re: GFMD 2008 Conference Documents Posted, Discussion Encouraged

Dear Friends,

We are forwarding you a message sent to us by the Ayala Foundation announcing the posting of GFMD documents onto the GFMD civil society days website. These are research papers which were prepared by "experts" and are to be discussed in the GFMD Roundtables. The papers can be accessed at:http://www.gfmd2008.org/welcome.html.

An online forum has been created to facilitate discussion about the papers. The forum can be accessed at:http://www.gfmd2008.org/component/option,com_fireboard/Itemid,58/.

Best wishes,

Migrants Rights International

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 From the Ayala Foundation:

"Civil Society Days”
2nd Global Forum on Migration and Development
27-28 October 2008

CONFERENCE DOCUMENTS AND ONLINE DISCUSSION

Conference Documents Now Posted

In preparation for the GFMD Civil Society Days, a number of resource persons were asked to prepare research papers to help start discussions at the concurrent workshops. A total of 21 research papers are being prepared and will be posted on this site for the review of delegates and other interested parties. All papers will eventually be posted. Executive Summaries of all the papers will be in English, French, and Spanish, after translations have been completed by the Fundación Santiago, which sponsored the translation of the documents.

All available documents can be found in Conference Documents.

Online Discussions Now Open

All Conference Documents will also be open to an online discussion from September 16 – October 15 in the Public Forum section of this site. Discussion will be available in English, French, and Spanish, under the sponsorship of ammado.com.

The Public Forum is open to all. Viewers may read items in this section but those wishing to enter comments or feedback must register to the site.

Our moderators for the online discussion will be Barbara Kelly (English), Florent Edel(French), and  Kelly Fumiko Weiss (Spanish)." 

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