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To date, the international community’s globalization efforts have been focused on facilitating the movement of capital, goods and services, rather than people. Barriers to human mobility have been identified as a continuing and considerable impediment to economic gains that are expected to outstrip gains from further liberalization in other sectors and that would benefit developing and developed economies alike. Yet the international community has been slow to liberalize the movement of people, not least because, as States seek to regulate and facilitate legitimate entry, they are acutely aware of the need to maintain social cohesion, prevent and reduce irregular migration, and protect themselves from the threats of international terrorism and criminality.

Despite the barriers that exist to the movement of people, human mobility has been and continues to be unavoidably stimulated by the economic and social integration processes of globalization. It remains the sovereign right of each State to determine which non-nationals enter and remain on its territory, for what purpose, and under what conditions. Thus, States need to be able to manage migration effectively in order to maximize the potential benefits flowing from exchanges of skills and talents in a globally interconnected economy. This is equally so for temporary and permanent migration, for low, middle and highly skilled migrants, and at the national, bilateral, regional and global levels. More often than not, migration management involves cooperation with other States and non-State stakeholders for optimal effectiveness. 

Agenda

Tuesday, 27 November 2007 

11:30 - 13:00

International Dialogue on Migration - Migration Management in the Evolving Global Economy

Special Panel: Launching of the World Migration Report 2008: "Managing Labour Mobility in the Evolving Global Economy"

  • Gervais Appave and Ryszard Cholewinski, co-editors World Migration Report 2008, IOM (Presentation | Notes)
15:00 - 18:00

Migration Management in the Evolving Global Economy - High-level plenary presentations and discussion on managing increasing cross-border movements of people as an integral part of globalization

Moderator: Ikram Seghal, Chairman, Pathfinder Group and Member of the Director General's Business Advisory Board

Panellists:

  • Ali Abdullah Al-Ka'abi, Minister for Labour, United Arab Emirates
  • Arturo Cabrera, Subsecretario de Política Migratoria Internacional de la Secretaría Nacional del Migrante, Ecuador (Bio)
  • Maxime Tandonnet, Advisor on Immigration and Integration, Cabinet of the President of the Republic of France (Presentation)
  • Moremi Soyinka-Onijala, Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President, Migration and Humanitarian Affairs, Nigeria (tbc)

Wednesday, 28 November 2007

10:00 - 13:00

International Dialogue on Migration (continued)

Migration Highlights - High-level plenary presentations and discussion of selected recent and forthcoming migration developments

Panellists:

  • Vladimir Naumov, Minister of Internal Affairs, Republic of Belarus, on the opening of the International Training Center on Migration and Combating Trafficking in Human Beings in Minsk (Bio)
  • Mohammed Ameur, Delegate Minister to the Prime Minister, in charge of the Moroccan Community Resident Abroad, Kingdom of Morocco, on the forthcoming launch of the Mediterranean edition of the "Handbook on Establishing Effective Labour Migration Policies" in Rabat (Bio)
  • José Magalhães, Portugal's Deputy Minister of Interior will present the migration priorities of the Portuguese European Union Presidency (Bio | Presentation)
  • Erlinda F. Basilio, Permanent Representative of the Philippines to the United Nations Office and Other International Organizations in Geneva, on the preparations for the next Global Forum on Migration and Development, Manila (Presentation)
15:00 - 17:45

Migration and the Environment - High-level plenary presentations and discussion

  • Presentation by the Administration (Presentation)
  • High-level presentations and discussion

Moderator: Janos J. Bogardi, Director, Institute for Environment and Human Security, United Nations University (Bio)

Panellists:

  • Qiao Zonghuai, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, People's Republic of China
  • Abdul Bari Khan, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Food and Disaster Management, People's Republic of Bangladesh
  • Theodoros Skylakakis, Secretary General for International Economic Relations and Development Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Greece (Bio | Presentation)
  • Nguele Dieudonné Tolo, Director General, National Forestry Development Agency (NFDA), the Republic of Cameroon
  • Jaifa Mezher, Director, Programa Colombia Nos Une, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Colombia (Bio | Presentation)

Discussant: Christophe Bouvier, Director, Regional Office for Europe, United Nations Environment Programme (Bio)

17:45 - 18:00 Wrap-up of the International Dialogue on Migration
Event documents

 

Regions
Office type
Afghanistan
Albania
Algeria
Angola
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina
Armenia
Aruba
Asia and the Pacific
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bahamas (The)
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus
Belgium
Belize
Benin
Bhutan
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana
Brazil
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cabo Verde
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
Central African Republic (the)
Chad
Chile
China
Colombia
Comoros (the)
Congo (the)
Costa Rica
Côte d'Ivoire
Croatia
Cuba
Cyprus
Czechia
Democratic Republic of the Congo (the)
Denmark
Djibouti
Dominica
Dominican Republic (the)
East and Horn of Africa
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Eritrea
Estonia
Eswatini
Ethiopia
Europe and Central Asia
Fiji
Finland
France
Gabon
Gambia (the)
Georgia
Germany
Ghana
Global Office in Brussels
Global Office in Washington
Greece
Guatemala
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
IOM Office at the United Nations
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Iraq
Ireland
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Lao People's Democratic Republic (the)
Latin America and the Caribbean
Latvia
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Mali
Malta
Manila Administrative Centre
Marshall Islands (the)
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mexico
Micronesia (Federated States of)
Middle East and North Africa
Mongolia
Montenegro
Morocco
Mozambique
Myanmar
Namibia
Nepal
Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger (the)
Nigeria
North Macedonia
Norway
Pakistan
Palau
Panama
Panama Administrative Centre
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines (the)
Poland
Portugal
Qatar
Republic of Korea
Republic of Moldova (the)
Romania
Russian Federation (the)
Rwanda
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa
Sao Tome and Principe
Senegal
Serbia
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Slovakia
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
Somalia
South Africa
South Sudan
Spain
Sri Lanka
Subregional Office in Brussels
Subregional Office in Pretoria
Sudan (the)
Sweden
Switzerland
Syrian Arab Republic (the)
Tajikistan
Thailand
Timor-Leste
Togo
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Türkiye
Turkmenistan
Tuvalu
Uganda
Ukraine
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)
United Republic of Tanzania (the)
UNSC Resolution 1244-Administered Kosovo
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
Viet Nam
West and Central Africa
Yemen
Zambia
Zimbabwe