Statements from the Geneva Migration Group (GMG)

• Mr. Juan Somavia, Director General, International Labour Office

• Ruud Lubbers, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
• Rubens Ricupero, Secretary General, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

• Bertrand Ramcharan, Acting United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

Migration in a Globalized World

• Opening Presentation - IOM Administration

Presentation
Presentation Handout

• High-level Presentations and Discussion 
  • Jan O. Karlsson, Co-Chair of the Global Commission on International Migration

• • Ousmane Ngom, Ministre Conseiller à la Présidence de la République en charge des Relations Internationales du Sénégal
  • Milton Ray Guevara, Secretario de Estado de Trabajo, República Dominicana

• • Michel Dorais, Deputy Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Canada

• Commentator
  • Nitin Desai, former Under Secretary General of the United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs

Regional and Thematic Updates: brief reports on selected developments

• Labour Migration Ministerial Consultations for Countries of Origin in Asia
  • Patricia Santo Tomas, Secretary, Department of Labour and Employment, Philippines

• Dialogue on Migration in the Western Mediterranean (“5 plus 5”)
  • Nouzha Chekrouni, Ministre déléguée auprès des Affaires Etrangères et de la Coopération chargée des Marocains résidant à l'étranger, Maroc

• Italian National Association of Municipalities (ANCI)
  • Antonio Ragonesi, Chief, Department for Social Policies and Immigration, ANCI, Italy

• The Berne Initiative
  • Jean Daniel Gerber, Director of the Federal Office for Refugees, Switzerland

• Regional Conference on Public Health and Trafficking in Human Beings in Central, Eastern and Southeast Europe
  • Zsuzanna Jakab, Secretary of State, Ministry of Health, Social and Family Affairs, Hungary

• Bali Ministerial Conference on People Smuggling, Trafficking in Persons and Related Transnational Crime
  • Makmur Widodo, Director General of Multilateral for Political, Social and Security Affairs, Department of Foreign Affairs, Indonesia

• Economic Community of West African States
  • Yaya Sow, Head of Office, ECOWAS, Brussels

• South American Conference on Migration
  • Luis Sica, Director for Consular Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Uruguay

• Puebla Process
  • Magdalena Carral Cuevas, Comisionada del Instituto Nacional de Migración, México