Population Division - 2011

Informal thematic debate on international migration and development

NKOSHY — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 14:04:00 +0000

Thursday, 19 May 2011 - 9:00am

Overview

The President of the General Assembly will host a one-day Informal Thematic Debate on International Migration and Development ('the debate') at UN Headquarters in New York on 19 May 2011, pursuant to A/RES/63/225. The debate is intended to build on the on-going dialogue on international migration and development, and to contribute to the process leading to the second High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development to be held by the UN General Assembly in 2013.

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Concept note
Provisional programme
General Assembly resolution A/RES/63/225

Organization of work

Thursday, 19 May 2011
10:00 - 10:20	Opening remarks
	H.E. Mr. Joseph Deiss President of the General Assembly
	H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon Secretary-General (TBC)
10:20 - 13:00	Panel one: The Contribution of migrants to development
	Chair: Mr. William Swing Director-General, International Organization for Migration
	Panelists:
	H.E. Ms. Lorena Escudero National Secretary for Migrants, Ecuador Mr. Driss El Yazami President, National Human Rights Council, Morocco Mr. Chukwu-Emeka Chikezie Co-Founder, Africa n Foundation for Development [AFFORD] and Consultant, Sierra Leone Mr. Goran Hultin Chief Executive Officer, Caden Corporation and Contributor to the Talent Mobility Project, World Economic Forum Professor John Connell Professor of Human Geography, University of Sydney

15:00 - 17:40	Panel two: Improving international cooperation on migration and development
	Chair: Dr. Khalid Koser, Academic Dean and Head of the New Issues in Security Course, Geneva Centre for Security Policy
	Panelists:
	Ambassador Eduard Gnesa Special Ambassador for International Cooperation on Migration Issues, Switzerland, in his capacity as Head of Switzerland's Presidency of the Global Forum on Migration and Development H.E. Mr. Saqr Ghobash Minister of Labour United Arab Emirates (TBC) Mr. Anthony Lake UNICEF Executive Director, in his capacity as Chair of the Global Migration Group Ms. Thetis Mangahas Senior Migration Specialist and Deputy Regional Director, Policy and Programmes, ILO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (TBC) Dr. Rafael Fernandez de Castro Founder and Chair, Department of International Studies, Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico

17:40 - 18:00	Summary by Sir Peter Sutherland, Secretary-General's Special Representative on International Migration and Development Closing remarks by the President of the General Assembly Summary

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Expert group meeting on adolescents, youth and development

MSTOCKTO — Thu, 02 May 2019 19:13:00 +0000

Thursday, 21 July 2011 - 10:00am to Friday, 22 July 2011 - 5:00pm

Overview

The Population Division of the 51�Թ� Department of Economic and Social Affairs organized an expert group meeting on adolescents, youth, and development. The meeting was held at the 51�Թ� in New York from 21 to 22 July 2011.

The meeting was organized in preparation for the forty-fifth session of the Commission on Population and Development, scheduled to take place in April 2012, which would focus on “Adolescents and youth”. It was held during the 2010-2011 International Year of Youth, as promulgated by General Assembly resolution A/RES/64/134.

The meeting brought together experts from different disciplines and regions to present and discuss research on two broad themes, namely (a) the demographic dynamics that shape the number and characteristics of adolescents and youth, and (b) the ways in which adolescents and young people can be agents of socio-economic development. Selected papers prepared by the experts participating in the meeting are available as part of the Expert Paper Series published by the Population Division.

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Expert group meeting on mortality crises: conflicts, violence, famine, natural disasters and the growing burden of non-communicable diseases

MSTOCKTO — Thu, 02 May 2019 19:06:00 +0000

Monday, 14 November 2011 - 10:00am to Tuesday, 15 November 2011 - 5:00pm

Overview

The Population Division of the 51�Թ� Department of Economic and Social Affairs organized an expert group meeting to address issues associated with the estimation and projection of mortality levels in context of humanitarian crises, including conflicts, violence, famine and natural disasters as well as in respect to the growing burden of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). The meeting was held at the 51�Թ� in New York from 14 to 15 November 2011.

Participants reviewed the latest evidence of crises that cause significant rises in mortality levels and discussed to initiate how such evidence could inform the preparation of mortality estimates by the Population Division. The meeting also considered trends in mortality from NCDs with a view to informing assumptions about future mortality trends.

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Organization of work

Monday, 14 November 2011
9:30-13:00	Opening session
	Hania Zlotnik, Director, Population Division. Opening remarks François Pelletier, Population Division. Introduction to mortality crisis
	Session 1: Mortality estimation in the context of conflicts,violence, famine and natural disasters
	a. Mortality estimation in the context of conflicts and violence
	Gregg Greenough, Harvard School of Public Health. Challenges in collecting reliable data from areas in conflict and measuring mortality Les Roberts, Columbia University. Mortality due to the conflict in Iraq Andrew Mack, Simon Fraser University. Mortality due to the conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Discussant: Jon Pedersen, FAFO.
	Patrick Heuveline, University of California, Los Angeles. Mortality due to the conflict in Cambodia Helge Brunborg, Statistics Norway. Mortality due to the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina Roberto Briceño León, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (WWICS). Mortality due to violence in Latin America Discussion and questions
14:30-17:30	b. Mortality estimation in the context of famine and natural disasters
	Tim Dyson, London School of Economics. Famine mortality Shannon Doocy, Johns Hopkins University. Mortality patterns during the 2004 Tsunami in the Indian Ocean Gregg Greenough, Harvard School of Public Health. Patterns in injuries and mortality caused by earthquakes: evidence from the EM-DAT database Discussion and questions
	Colin Mathers, World Health Organization. The WHO approach for assessing mortality shocks: estimating additional deaths caused by conflicts and disasters Brainstorming session on methodological issues: There is a need to define best practices, harmonise tools and adopt a more standardised approach for estimating mortality in crisisaffected populations. Discussion will aim at providing a set of guidelines to develop consistent methods to generate country-level mortality estimates considering a variety of crisis contexts Moderator: Jon Pedersen, FAFO François Pelletier, Population Division . Concluding remarks
Tuesday, 15 November 2011
9:00-13:00	Session 2: The growing burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs)
	Cheryl Sawyer, Population Division. Introduction
	a. The World Health Organization estimates
	Colin Mathers, World Health Organization. WHO data and methods for estimating incidence, prevalence and mortality for non-communicable diseases at the global, regional and country levels Colin Mathers, World Health Organization. The WHO procedure for estimating the prevalence and population attributable risk of NCD risk factors at the global, regional and country levels Discussion and questions
	b. Linking NCD risk factors to mortality
	Samuel Preston, University of Pennsylvania. The impact of tobacco use on mortality David Leon, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The impact of alcohol use on mortality Katherine Flegal, United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The impact of obesity on mortality Discussion and questions
14:30-17:30	c. Country-level trends in NCDS and risk factors
	Youfa Wang, Johns Hopkins University. Obesity in China Flavia Andrade, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Diabetes in Latin America and the Caribbean Discussion and questions
	Closing session
	François Pelletier, Population Division. Concluding remarks

* See report.

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Ninth coordination meeting on international migration

MSTOCKTO — Wed, 23 Jan 2019 20:34:00 +0000

Thursday, 17 February 2011 - 10:00am to Friday, 18 February 2011 - 6:00pm

Overview

The Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the 51�Թ� is organizing the Ninth 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 Ninth Coordination Meeting on International Migration has the following three objectives: (a) to examine the development of indicators that measure the contribution of international migration to countries of origin and destination; (b) to exchange information on recent initiatives to build capacities on international migration and development, and (c) to discuss the contribution of 51�Թ� agencies, funds and programmes and other relevant organizations to the Global Forum on Migration and Development as well as to the informal thematic debate on international migration and development which will be organized by the President of the General Assembly on 19 May 2011.

By providing participants with the opportunity to present their activities, the Meeting will contribute to greater coherence of the 51�Թ� and other international organizations in responding to the growing demand from Member States to support and develop activities on international migration and development.

The outcome of the meeting will contribute to the preparation of the report of the Secretary-General on international migration and development for the sixty-seventh session of the General Assembly.

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Commission on Population and Development, forty-forth session (2011)

MSTOCKTO — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 20:02:00 +0000

Monday, 11 April 2011 - 10:00am to Friday, 15 April 2011 - 6:00pm

Fertility, reproductive health and development

Members of the Commission

Bureau members

Ambassador Brian Bowler (Malawi) - African Group (Chair)
Mr. Christophe de Bassompierre (Belgium) - Western European and Others Group (WEOG) (Vice-Chair)
Mr. Attila Zimonyi (Hungary) - Eastern-European Group (Vice-Chair)
Mr. Easton Williams (Jamaica) - Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC) (Vice-Chair)
Mr. Suljuk Mustansar Tarar (Pakistan) - Asia-Pacific Group (Vice-Chair)

Report of the Commission on its forty-fourth session

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