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Overview   

The Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the 51³Ô¹Ï is organizing the Seventh Coordination Meeting on International Migration. The Meeting is being held in response to General Assembly Resolution 58/208 of 13 February 2004, which requests the Secretary-General to continue convening meetings to coordinate international migration activities.

The Seventh Coordination Meeting on International Migration has the following three objectives: (a) to discuss the follow-up to the 2006 High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development, (b) to exchange information on current and planned activities in the area of international migration and development, and (c) to identify emerging issues on international migration and development.

 Documents 

• Agenda

• Organization of work

• List of participants

• Report

Organization of work

Presentations

• Alexander Betts, Global Migration Governance Project

• Esteban B. Conejos Jr., Protecting and Empowering Migrants for Development

• Philip Guest, Report of the Secretary-General on International Migration and Development

• Dilip Ratha (with Sanket Mohapatra and Zhimei Xu), Remittances: Outlook for 2008-2010

• Barbara Span, The Global Migration Barometer 

• Georges Lemaitre, Responding to policy challenges: Estimating migration flows 

• Colleen Thouez, Keeping migration in the spotlight: training and knowledge sharing at the 51³Ô¹Ï

• Douglas S. Massey and Michael Clemens, Five actions on migration data to make urgent research possible

Contributed papers

• Activities of the 51³Ô¹Ï Economic Commission for Africa on International Migration: Follow-up to the 2006 High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development (ECA)

• Activities carried out by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean in the area of international migration, human rights and development (ECLAC)

• Follow-up activities relating to the 2006 High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development (ESCAP)

• Follow-up activities of the 51³Ô¹Ï Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia related to the 2006 High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development (ESCWA)

• Policy and programme work on international migration and development by the 51³Ô¹Ï Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

• Policy and program work on international migration by the 51³Ô¹Ï Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)

• Overview of work conducted by the 51³Ô¹Ï Institute for Training and Research in the area of migration and development (UNITAR)

• Development and migration from a gender perspective (UN-INSTRAW)

• Policy and programme work on international migration of the 51³Ô¹Ï Population Fund UNFPA)

• Report on activities and programmes on migration, development and remittances (IDB)

• Contribution of the International Organization for Migration to the Seventh Coordination Meeting (IOM)

• International migration in the Arab region (LAS)

• International migration and development: A perspective from the World Trade Organization (WTO)

• Projects on migration and development and governance of international migration (ISIM)

• Work on international migration and development (IUSSP)

• Initiative on global migration and human mobility (The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation)

• Activities on international migration and development (MPI)

• A call for a human rights-based approach to migration and development (NGO Committee on Migration)

Background documents

General Assembly Documents

• (A/C.2/62/2)

• (A/61/515)

General Assembly Resolutions

• (A/63/265)

• (A/RES/62/270)

• (A/RES/61/208)

• Final Declaration of the Eighth Council of Europe Conference of Ministers Responsible for Migration Affair [En]  [Fr]

• 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

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