Expert symposium on international migration and development

Opening remarks by Kwabena Osei-Danquah (on behalf of María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés President of the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly)

I. Interactive panel on migration and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

• Chair: Alicia Bárcena Ibarra, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)

Panel:

• António Manuel de Carvalho Ferreira Vitorino, Director General, International Organization for Migration (IOM)

• Santiago Javier Chavez Pareja, Vice Minister for Human Mobility of Ecuador, designated Chair of the GFMD 2019

• Felipe González Morales, UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants

• Richard Blewitt, Head of Delegation and Permanent Representative to the United Nations, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)

II. Interactive panel on migration-related issues and the 2019 High-level Political Forum

• Chair: François Héran, Collège de France

Panel:

• Marion Barthelemy, Office of Intergovernmental Support and Coordination for Sustainable Development, UN DESA

• Owen Shumba, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

• Michelle Leighton, International Labour Organization (ILO)

• Michele LeVoy, Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM)

 Afternoon session

III. Improving the evidence base on migration in the context of the 2030 Agenda

• Chair: Ann Singleton, University of Bristol, School for Policy Studies

• Yongyi Min, Statistics Division, UN DESA. Overview of the evidence for monitoring the migration-related SDGs targets 

• Ellen Kraly, Colgate University. Research and data for informed migration policies 

• Karima Belhaj, Demographic Studies and Research Centre, High Commission for Planning, Morocco. Disaggregated data by migratory status: Challenges and opportunities 

• Jean-Christophe Dumont, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Availability and use of data on the effects and benefits of migration, including contributions of migrants and diaspora 

• Rachel Snow, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). New approaches and the priorities for capacity building 

IV. Tour-de-table

• Chair: Jonathan Prentice, UN Network on Migration

• Brief presentations on recent or upcoming activities on migration and development

• John Wilmoth, Population Division, UN DESA. Closing of the meeting

• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). UN/POP/MIG-1ES/2019/1

• United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). UN/POP/MIG-1ES/2019/2

• United Nations Human Settlement Programme (UN-Habitat). UN/POP/MIG-1ES/2019/3

• United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA). UN/POP/MIG-1ES/2019/4

• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). UN/POP/MIG-1ES/2019/5

• Talent Beyond Boundaries (TBB). UN/POP/MIG-1ES/2019/6

• United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).
  UN/POP/MIG-1ES/2019/7

• United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). UN/POP/MIG-1ES/2019/8

• United Nations University (UNU). UN/POP/MIG-1ES/2019/9

• United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). UN/POP/MIG-1ES/2019/10

• International Labour Organization (ILO). UN/POP/MIG-1ES/2019/11

• World Health Organization (WHO). UN/POP/MIG-1ES/2019/12

Other relevant information

Background documents