2006

The first-ever plenary session of the UN General Assembly on migration issues opens 14 September at the United Nations in New York, with a focus on ways to maximize the development benefits of migration and to reduce difficulties.

“We are only beginning to learn how to make migration work more consistently for development,” Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in a report prepared in anticipation of the meeting. “Each of us holds a piece of the migration puzzle, but none has the whole picture. It is time to start putting it together.”

Overview

The Symposium is organized by the Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations in collaboration with Fondazione Rosselli, with the support of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Regione Piemonte, Provincia di Torino, Comune di Torino, and Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Torino.

Overview

The Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs organized an expert group meeting on challenges and opportunities of international migration for development in the Arab region. The meeting was held at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) in Beirut, Lebanon from 15 to 17 May 2006.

Overview

Overview     

The Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations is organizing the Fifth Coordination Meeting on International Migration in response to General Assembly Resolution 58/208 of 13 February 2004 on International Migration and Development, which requests the Secretary-General to continue convening meetings to coordinate activities regarding international migration

International migration and development

Bureau members

• Mr. Crispin Grey-Johnson (Gambia) - African Group (Chair)
• Mr. Majdi Ramadan (Lebanon) - Asia-Pacific Group (Vice-Chair)
• Mr. Ewa Frątczak (Poland) - Eastern-European Group (Vice-Chair)
• Mr. Albert Graf (Germany) - Western European and Others Group (WEOG) (Vice-Chair)
• Ms. Elena Zuñiga/Mr. Pablo Enrique Torres Salmerón (Mexico) - Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC) (Vice-Chair)