Seventh Coordination Meeting on International Migration
New York, 20-21 November 2008

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INFORMATION FOR PARTICIPANTS

DOCUMENTS

• Objectives of the Meeting
• Provisional Agenda
• Provisional Organization of Work
• List of Participants
• List of Papers
• Editorial Guidelines
  
  
• Report of the Seventh Coordination Meeting on International Migration

CONTRIBUTED PAPERS

• Activities of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa on International Migration: Follow-up to the 2006 High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development
  United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
• Activities carried out by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean in the area of international migration, human rights and development
  United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
• Follow-up activities relating to the 2006 High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development
  United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
• Follow-up activities of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia related to the 2006 High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development
  United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
• Policy and programme work on international migration and development by the United Nations Children’s Fund
  United Nations Children's Fund
• Policy and program work on international migration by the United Nations Development Fund for Women
  United Nations Development Fund for Women
• Overview of work conducted by the United Nations Institute for Training and Research in the area of migration and development
  United Nations Institute for Training and Research
• Development and migration from a gender perspective
  United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women
• Policy and programme work on international migration of the United Nations Population Fund
  United Nations Population Fund
• Report on activities and programmes on migration, development and remittances
  The Inter-American Development Bank
• Contribution of the International Organization for Migration to the Seventh Coordination Meeting
  International Organization for Migration
• International migration in the Arab region
  League of Arab States
• International migration and development: A perspective from the World Trade Organization
  World Trade Organization
• Projects on migration and development and governance of international migration
  Institute for the Study of International Migration
• Work on international migration and development
  International Union for the Scientific Study of Population
• Initiative on global migration and human mobility
  The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
• Activities on international migration and development
  Migration Policy Institute
• A call for a human rights-based approach to migration and development
  NGO Committee on Migration
  
  
  

PRESENTATIONS

• Global Migration Governance Project - Alexander Betts
• Protecting and Empowering Migrants for Development - Esteban B. Conejos Jr.
• Report of the Secretary-General on International Migration and Development - Philip Guest
• Remittances: Outlook for 2008-2010 - Dilip Ratha (with Sanket Mohapatra and Zhimei Xu)
• The Global Migration Barometer - Barbara Span
• Responding to policy challenges: Estimating migration flows - Georges Lemaitre
• Keeping migration in the spotlight: training and knowledge sharing at the United Nations -
  Colleen Thouez
• Five actions on migration data to make urgent research possible - Douglas S. Massey and
  Michael Clemens

OTHER RELEVANT DOCUMENTS

• Report of the Secretary-General on International Migration and Development (A/63/265)
                 [Arabic]  [Chinese]  [English]  [French]  [Russian]  [Spanish]
• General Assembly Resolution: Global Forum on Migration and Development (A/RES/62/270)
              [Arabic]  [Chinese]  [English]  [French]  [Russian]  [Spanish]
• General Assembly Resolution: International Migration and Development (A/RES/61/208)
            [Arabic]  [Chinese]  [English]  [French]  [Russian]  [Spanish]
• Report of the first meeting of GFMD, distributed by the President of the General Assembly (A/C.2/62/2)
            [Arabic]  [Chinese]  [English]  [French]  [Russian]  [Spanish]
• Summary of the High-level Dialogue by the President of the General Assembly (A/61/515)
            [Arabic]  [Chinese]  [English]  [French]  [Russian]  [Spanish]
• Final Declaration of the Eighth Council of Europe Conference of Ministers Responsible for Migration Affairs
            [English]  [French]
• Asia-Pacific High-level Meeting on International Migration and Development - Chairman's Summary, 22-23 September 2008, Bangkok, Thailand
• Global Migration Barometer: Methodology, results and findings - Economist Intelligence Unit
• The Comparability of International Migration Statistics: Problems and Prospects - Georges Lemaitre
• Standardised statistics on immigrant inflows results, sources and methods - OECD
• Towards a ‘soft law’ framework for the protection of vulnerable migrants - Alexander Betts
  
  

OTHER RELEVANT WEBSITES

• Sixth Coordination Meeting on International Migration, New York, 26-27 November 2007
• International Migration and Development
• Second meeting of GFMD, Manila, the Philippines, 29 - 30 October 2008