• Skip to main navigation
  • Skip to content
UN unicon Welcome to the United Nations. It's your world.
  • Development
  • Department of Economic and Social Affairs
 
  •    MAIN  
  •   DATA  
    • Empirical
    • Estimates
    • Indicators
  • PUBLICATIONS
    • International Migration Report
    • Wallcharts
    • Fact Sheets
    • Technical Papers
    • Other materials
  • MEETINGS
    • Coordination meetings
    • Expert group meetings
    • General Assembly events
    • Commission on Population
      and Development
    • International Migrants Day
    • Other events
  • GENERAL ASSEMBLY
    • Sessions
    • Reports
    • Resolutions
  • STAKEHOLDERS
    • Global Migration Group
    • Special Representative of
      the Secretary-General
    • Global Forum on Migration and
      Development
  • POPULATION DIVISION HOME

 

  • Main page
  • Information materials
  • Organization of work
  • List of participants
  • Papers
  • Contributed papers
  • Other relevant information
  • Background documents
  • Report of the meeting

Fourth Coordination Meeting on International Migration
New York, 26-27 October 2005

The Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations is organizing the Fourth 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.

The meeting has two main objectives: (a) to discuss the implications of the report of the Global Commission on International Migration and Development and its recommendations for the work on international migration of the United Nations system and for the High-Level Dialogue on International Migration that the General Assembly will conduct during its sixty-first session in 2006; and (b) to share information on recent activities of participant organizations that are most relevant for the High-Level Dialogue or that should be considered in the substantive preparations of the High-Level Dialogue.

Objectives of the meeting

The Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations is organizing the Fourth 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.

The meeting has two main objectives: (a) to discuss the implications of the report of the Global Commission on International Migration and Development and its recommendations for the work on international migration of the United Nations system and for the High-Level Dialogue on International Migration that the General Assembly will conduct during its sixty-first session in 2006; and (b) to share information on recent activities of participant organizations that are most relevant for the High-Level Dialogue or that should be considered in the substantive preparations of the High-Level Dialogue.

Background documents

General Assembly Documents

  • Report of the Secretary-General for the Sixtieth Session of the General Assembly on International Migration and Development

General Assembly Resolutions

  • International Migration and Development (A/RES/59/241)
    [Arabic]  [Chinese]  [English]  [French]  [Russian]  [Spanish]
  • International Migration and Development (A/RES/58/208)
    [Arabic]  [Chinese]  [English]  [French]  [Russian]  [Spanish]

Other Documents

  • Report of the Global Commission on International Migration (GCIM)
  • Report of the Third Coordination Meeting on International Migration, New York, 27-28 October 2004

Contributed papers

  • Highly skilled migration
    (UN/POP/MIG-FCM/2005/01) - International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD)
  • ECA additional activities on international migration 2004-2005
    (UN/POP/MIG-FCM/2005/02) - United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
  • UNFPA'S policy and programme of work on international migration
    (UN/POP/MIG-FCM/2005/03) - United Nations Population Fund
  • International migration and development, key aspects for the High-Level Dialogue 2006
    (UN/POP/MIG-FCM/2005/04) - Paul de Guchteneire, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
  • Activities of the UNHCR in the area of international migration and development
    (UN/POP/MIG-FCM/2005/05) - UNHCR
  • United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR)
    (UN/POP/MIG-FCM/2005/06) - Colleen Thouez
  • Demographic transition and its implications on employment and international migration
    (UN/POP/MIG-FCM/2005/07) - Batool Shakoori, UN-ESCWA
  • International migration, human rights and development in Latin America and the Caribbean
    (UN/POP/MIG-FCM/2005/08) - Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
  • Summary of the report of the Global Commission on International Migration
    (UN/POP/MIG-FCM/2005/09) - GCIM
  • The multilateral investment fund of the Inter-American Development Bank and Remittances
    (UN/POP/MIG-FCM/2005/10) - Pedro de Vasconcelos, Inter-American Development Bank
  • Internal and international migration in economic development
    (UN/POP/MIG-FCM/2005/11) - Josh DeWind and Jennifer Holdaway, Social Science Research Counci l
  • Counting immigrants and expatriates in OECD countries: A new perspective
    (UN/POP/MIG-FCM/2005/12) - Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
  • Brain drain versus brain gain: the study of remittances in South East Asia and promoting knowledge exchange through diasporas
    (UN/POP/MIG-FCM/2005/13) - Asian Development Bank
  • Contribution by the International Labour Office
    (UN/POP/MIG-FCM/2005/14) - International Labour Office
  • Research on migration and development
    (UN/POP/MIG-FCM/2005/15) - Lindsay Lowell and Susan Martin
  • Recent IOM activities relevant to the upcoming high-level dialogue on international migration and development
    (UN/POP/MIG-FCM/2005/16) - International Organization for Migration
  • Remitances and movement of persons
    (UN/POP/MIG-FCM/2005/17) - United Nations Statistics Division
  • World Bank work programme on migration and remittances
    (UN/POP/MIG-FCM/2005/18) - Dilip Ratha, World Bank
  • Copyright |
  • Terms of Use |
  • Privacy Notice |
  • Fraud Alert |
  • Help