Welcome to Migrants Rights International (MRI)’s webpage for civil society preparations for the GFMD 2008!
The Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) is an annual inter-governmental forum in which issues related to migration and development are being discussed. The first GFMD took place in Brussels, Belgium in 2007.
The second GFMD is scheduled to take place in Manila, Philippines from October 27 – 30, 2008.
Civil society organizations are very concerned about the way that the GFMD has been developing. While the GFMD is an international forum to discuss migration issues that affect migrants’ rights, it has so far been resistant to taking into considering existing international law and principles on human rights and migrants’ rights. In addition, civil society participation has so far been very limited.
Migrants Rights International (MRI) along with other civil society groups is planning civil society mobilizations during, and leading up to, the GFMD in Manila, including a civil society parallel event concurrent to the GFMD.
More information will be uploaded onto this site in the weeks to come.
To ask questions, to receive email updates, to send us documents to be posted onto this site, or to join the email discussion group on civil society strategy on GFMD 2008, write MRI at migrantsrightsinternational@gmail.com.
DOCUMENTS
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Migrants Rights International News 08/1
16 April 2008
(4 pages) |
- 3 articles summarizing information from international briefing and strategy session held at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland on 19 March 2008 (more detailed information available in the “Notes from ‘The Road to Manila 2008’…”)
- Includes section on “Frequently Asked Questions about the GFMD”
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Notes from “The Road to Manila 2008: An International Briefing and Strategy Meeting for Civil Society Mobilizations and GFMD Parallel Events on Migrants’ Rights” - PART I: Briefing
(Event of 19 March 2008, Geneva Switzerland)
(7 pages) |
- Detailed notes from the briefing held on 19 March 2008 at the UN in Geneva, Switzerland
- (Summary information available in Migrants Rights International News 08/1)
- Includes information on history of GFMD, including on UN Global Commission on International Migration, UN High Level Dialogue on Migration and Development (New York 2006), and the first GFMD in Brussels, Belgium in 2007
- Includes information on civil society mobilizations at the UNHLD and GFMD Brussels
- Information on format and preparations for GFMD Manila 2008
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Notes from “The Road to Manila 2008: An International Briefing and Strategy Meeting for Civil Society Mobilizations and GFMD Parallel Events on Migrants’ Rights” - PART II: Civil Society Strategy Session
(Event of 19 March 2008 at the UN in Geneva, Swizterland)
(8 pages) |
- Detailed notes from the strategy session, held 19 March 2008 at the UN in Geneva, Swizterland
- (Summary information available in Migrants Rights International News 08/1)
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English
Español
[coming soon]
Français
[coming soon] |
Coming soon:
- MRI’s report on the UN High Level Dialogue on Migration and Development held in New York in 2006
- MRI’s report on the first Global Forum on Migration and Development, held in Brussels, Belgium in 2007
- Calendar of civil society activities planned around the world to prepare for GFMD Manila
PHOTOS
SEE ALSO:
News from the Philippines: Migrant Forum in Asia’s “Updates on GFMD”
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