Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration Now: Mechanics of a Compact Worth Agreeing to

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1 2017 Global Forum on Migration and Civil Society Days 29 June & 1 July; Common Space 30 June Berlin, Germany Venue: Hotel Palace Berlin, Budapester Str. 45, Berlin, Germany Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration Now: Mechanics of a Compact Worth Agreeing to Civil Society Chair 2017: Wies Maas Coordinator, Civil Society Action Committee for UN Summit for Refugees and Migrants 2016 Civil Society Co-Chair 2017: Berenice Valdez Rivera - Instituto para las Mujeres en la Migración (IMUMI) Children: Milena Franke - Youth Delegate from the Initiative on Child Rights Women: Carolina Gottardo - Women in Migration Network (WIMN) Grand Commitments Day: Rex Varona - Migrant Forum in Asia Outreach Vincent Tournecuillert - Terre des Hommes Prelude: Wednesday 28 June 2017 Brandenburg Gate, Pariser Platz, Berlin 18:00 19:00 Breaking down Walls : Prelude at the Gate (attendance optional) Action: Open invitation for GFMD civil society participants to share a short poem, song, story, reflection, dance (two-minutes each) on the theme of Walls 1

2 Official GFMD Civil Society Days Programme 2017 * 7:30 8:30 Civil Society Day 1, Thursday 29 June 2017: Recommendations Day Hotel Palace, Budapester Str. 45, Berlin Registration & welcome coffee Opening Ceremony: Bordeaux I - II 8:30-9:15 - Wies Maas - Civil Society Chair - Berenice Valdez Rivera - Civil Society Co-Chair - Beate Grzeski GFMD Co-Chair, Commissioner for Refugees and Migration, German Federal Foreign Office - Elke Löbel - Commissioner for refugee policy, Deputy Director-General and Head of the Directorate for displacement and migration; crisis prevention and management, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and - Bernd Bornhorst - Chair of the Board, VENRO Civil society theme, moment and methodology Sophie van Haasen, International Catholic Migration Commission :30-10:50 Inspirational speaker: Noah Sow, An Afrodeutsche Address First Panel and debate [Davos style]: Updates on the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration - Laura Thompson - Deputy Director General, International Organisation for Migration - François Crépeau - UN Special on Human Rights of Migrants - Gregory Maniatis - Director, International Migration Initiative, Open Society Foundations 10:50 11:10 Starting with the Why? - Rosa Nelly Santos Navarro - Comité de Familiares de migrantes desaparecidos en Honduras - Louise Arbour UN Special Representative of the Secretary General on International Migration Second panel and debate [Davos style]: Action Now on the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration 11:10-12:30 - Aligning ourselves: shared civil society baselines and redlines - Gibril Faal, Africa Europe Diaspora Platform - Asserting voice: Common civil society messages - Ignacio Packer, Terre Des Hommes - Achieving change: a Compact that works - Michele Levoy, Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (tbc) 12:30 14:30 Lunch 13:00 14:30 Special session 1: Green room on civil society baselines, redlines and common messages towards Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration John K. Bingham, International Catholic Migration Commission Efrain Jimenez, Federacion Zacatecana A.C. Special session 2: Mechanisms for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration where work is not the principal driver focus on resettlement, private sponsorships and family reunification Kevin Appleby, Scalabrini International Migration Network s Emeka Obiezu, Augustinians International I * There will be simultaneous interpretation to English, French and Spanish in all sessions of the CSD programme. All plenary sessions in will be livestreamed and available on our website. 2

3 Petra Hueck, International Catholic Migration Commission Europe Marla Conrad, Iniciativa Kino Special session 3: Climate and environmental change and migration Claudia Lucero, Alianza Americas/Chicago Religious Leadership Network s Sarnata Reynolds, OXFAM Samir Abi, Visions Solidaires/West African Observatory Sebastian Moretti, International Federation of the Red Cross II 14:30-16:45 Parallel working sessions Theme 1: Safe, orderly and regular mechanisms for Children on the Move and other Migrants in Vulnerable Situations Junita Calder, International Detention Coalition Eva Sandis, NGO Committee on Migration in New York Christian Wolff, ACT Alliance Evan Jones, Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network Behshid Najavi, Agisra e.v Joshua Hofert, Terre des Hommes Theme 2: Safe, orderly and regular mechanisms to create welcoming societies for Migrants in the face of growing Xenophobia Moderator Claudia Lucero, Durango Unido en Chicago Monami Maulik, Global Coalition on Migration Doros Polykarpou, KISA Lala Arabian, INSAAN Theme 3: Safe, orderly and regular mechanisms in return and reintegration Ahmed Bugre, Foundation for Shelter and Support to Migrants Eiri Ohtani, The Detention Forum Martina Liebsch, Caritas Internationalis Mayor Bongat of Naga city, Philippines Lariza Dugan, Central American Resource Center / Alianza Americas I 16:45 18:00 18:00 20:00 Theme 4: Safe, orderly and regular mechanisms of migration in the context of work, including Ethical Recruitment of Migrant Workers, Labour migration and Regularization II Tatcee Macabuag, Migrant Forum in Asia Charlie Fannning, The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations s Daniel Costa, Economic Policy Institute Misun Kim, Joint Committee with Migrants Korea Rodrigo Borras, Central de Trabajadores de la Argentina Rafeek Azeez, Center for Indian Migrant Studies Travel to Government reception (bus leaving at 17:00 - access only for 200 pre-notified delegates) Reception hosted by the Moroccan Co-Chair at the German Federal Foreign Office [Space limitations permit participation only for the 200 civil society delegates who were pre-notified] 3

4 Friday 30 June 2017 GFMD Common Space 09:00 16:00 German Federal Foreign Office Unterwasserstraße 10, Berlin [Busses leaving from Palace Hotel between 7.15 and 7.30am - access only for 200 pre-notified delegates] [Space limitations permit participation only for the 200 civil society delegates who were pre-notified and whose names have been communicated to the German government] Common Space programme will follow when final. Most recent draft available by clicking here. Tea tables with Governments [by invitation only] 16:30 18:00 German Federal Foreign Office Unterwasserstraße 10, Berlin 14:00 15:45 Augustinians International / Civil Society National Network on Migration and : Valletta Action Plan and Global Compact: Journeys in Same or Opposite Directions Film screenings and side events 14:00 18:00 Robert Bosch Foundation Französische Straße 32, Berlin CSO Partnership for Effectiveness (CPDE) Migrants and Diaspora Constituency Migration, Diaspora and Effectiveness 15:45 16:15 Coffee break 16:15 18:00 Swiss Civil Society Platform / VENRO Strategies of national civil society platforms on influencing the Global Compact on Migration Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) / Danish Refugee Council (DRC) Human Security at Risk? Capacity Building for Border Management under Scrutiny Reception hosted by the Robert Bosch Foundation 18:30 21:00 [space limited] Französische Straße 32, Berlin German Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE): Current migration realities in Africa: perspectives, priorities, policies Initiative on Child Rights in the Global Compacts Child rights and an SDG-like Global Compact on Migration WIMN/UN Women: Addressing women s human rights in the Global Compact on Migration Film screening: When I m there + Panel discussion on social remittances of Moroccan diaspora (starts at 16.30) 4

5 09:00 10:00 Civil Society Day 2, Saturday 1 July 2017: Commitments Day Hotel Palace Berlin, Budapester Str. 45, Berlin Plenary debate [Davos style]: The Global Compact: prospects for content and shared interests - Gibril Faal Africa Europe Diaspora Platform and Grand GFMD Common Space - Wies Maas Civil Society Chair - Berenice Valdez Rivera Civil Society Co-Chair 10:00 10:15 10:15 12:15 Coffee break and move to working sessions Parallel working sessions Theme 1: Safe, orderly and regular mechanisms for Children on the Move and other Migrants in Vulnerable Situations Junita Calder, International Detention Coalition Eva Sandis, NGO Committee on Migration in New York Christian Wolff, ACT Alliance Daniela Reale, Save the Children UK Lala Arabian, The Cross Regional Center for Refugees and Migrants Foyer Theme 2: Safe, orderly and regular mechanisms to create welcoming societies for Migrants in the face of growing Xenophobia Kuda Vanyoro, African Centre for Migration and Society Genevieve Gencianos, Public Services International Gelson Santana, Workers Union from the Construction Industries of Porto Alegre Jille Belisario, Commission for Filipino Migrant Workers/ Transnational Migrant Platform Pedro Rios, Southern Border Communities Coalition Theme 3: Safe, orderly and regular mechanisms for return and reintegration Ahmed Bugre, Foundation for Shelter and Support to Migrants Eiri Ohtani, The Detention Forum Martina Liebsch, Caritas Internationalis Victor Aihawu, Centre for Youths Integrated Saiful Haque, WARBE Foundation I Theme 4: Safe, orderly and regular mechanisms in the context of work, including Ethical Recruitment of Migrant Workers, Labour migration and Regularization II Tatcee Macabuag, Migrant Forum in Asia Charlie Fanning, The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations s Daniel Costa, Economic Policy Institute Misun Kim, Joint Committee with Migrants Korea Discussion starter Jillian Roque, PSLINK, Philippines 12:15 14:00 12:30 14:00 Lunch Special session 1: Green room on civil society baselines, redlines and common messages towards Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration John K. Bingham, International Catholic Migration Commission Efrain Jimenez, Federacion Zacatecana A.C. Special session 2: Mechanisms for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration where work is not the principal driver focus on resettlement, private sponsorships and family reunification 5

6 s (tbc) (tbc) Bikash Chowdhury, BASUG Diaspora and Gabriela Liguori, Comisión Argentina para Refugiados y Migrantes I 14:00 14:45 Special session 3: Climate and environmental change and migration Moderator Mamadou Goita, Institute for Research and the Promotion of Alternatives in /PANDiMR Tabitha Kentaro Sabiiti, All Africa Conference of Churches Liaison to African Union Atle Solberg, Platform on Disaster Displacement Raul Delgado Wise, International Network on Migration and Plenary: Reporting back and moving forward: - Presentation of main commitments by Grand Commitments Day Rex Varona - Presentation of rapporteur on children - Milena Franke - Presentation of rapporteur on women - Carolina Gottardo - Presentation of outreach rapporteur - Vincent Tournecuillert (tbc) II International Strategies Concluding Debate, Commitments I [Davos style] Next Steps we will take on Baselines, Redlines and Common Messages 14:45 16:15 - William Gois - Migrant Forum in Asia - Michele Levoy - Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM) (tbc) - Pav Akhtar - UNI Global Union Regional strategies Concluding Debate, Commitments II [direct interaction between the moderator(s) and the floor]: What are specific regional priorities and particularities for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration and what next steps will we take in the regions to make sure that the Global Compact does not lose them? 16:15 16:30 16:30 17:30 Coffee Break National strategies Concluding debate, Commitments III [Davos style]: Capital Strategies: Next steps we will take to advocate directly with our governments in our own countries and capitals to achieve our recommendations on the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration - Claudia León International Network on Migration and - Peter Aeberhard - The Swiss Civil Society platform on migration and development - Pietro Mona Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs 17:30 18:00 Closing Ceremony - Götz Schmidt-Bremme, GFMD Co-Chair, German Federal Foreign Office - El Habib Nadir, GFMD Co-Chair, Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation - Berenice Valdez Rivera, Civil Society Co-Chair - Wies Maas, Civil Society Chair 6