REGIONAL SEMINAR ON MIGRATION GOVERNANCE AND HUMAN RIGHTS - RABAT
Commemorating the tenth anniversary of the entry into force of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families, the Inter-ministerial Delegation for Human Rights (DIDH), the National Human Rights Council (CNDH) and the Office of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Morocco, organize a regional seminar on Migration Governance and Human Rights, on Friday, July 5, 2013 at 9:00 a.m. at Hotel Tower Hassan in Rabat.Academicians and experts (from Burkina Faso, Egypt, France, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Spain, Switzerland, Tunisia and Senegal, government officials), representatives of national human rights institutions and non-governmental organizations will take part in this regional gathering.
The chairman and several members of the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families and the representatives of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights will attend the seminar as well.
The participants will discuss migration dynamics in North Africa and West Africa, South/South migration and the challenges of this new trend, best practices in migration policies, relationship between international human rights law and migration governance, etc.
This seminar will be an opportunity to discuss inter-regional and international cooperation modalities, promote interaction with UN monitoring mechanisms in order to lay the foundation for regular reporting (to these mechanisms) and monitoring the implementation of their recommendations.