Program / Workshops

PROGRAM

-  NOVEMBER 4, 2010
Arrival of delegates attending the ITC

- NOVEMBER 4 – 6, 2010
International Tribunal of Conscience (ITC) – The 1st of its kind to focus on the rights and dignity of migrants, refugees and the displaced on a global scale. Its emphasis will be on investigating, documenting and determining state and corporate responsibility, and recommending remedies and follow-up actions regarding violations of the rights to migrate, not to migrate and not to be displaced, as measured both against existing legal minimums in international, regional and national law and the ethical foundations which underlie the demands of migrant movements.

-  NOVEMBER 6, 2010
Arrival of international delegates attending IAMR3

- NOVEMBER 7 – 8, 2010
3rd International Assembly of Migrants and Refugees (IAMR3) The Assembly will be participated by international delegates. The verdict of the ITC will also be presented in the Assembly.

-  NOVEMBER 8, 2010 (evening)
Solidarity and Cultural evening

-  NOVEMBER 9, 2010
Send-off of IAMR delegates to the “Caravana del Pueblo Contra el GFMD” (People’s Caravan against GFMD) to Puerto Vallarta, the site of the 4th Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD). The caravan will briefly stop and have a program at Guadalajara.

-  NOVEMBER 10, 2010
The ITC verdict will be delivered to the government delegation at the GFMD as well as the civil society forum. IAMR3 will also be calling for an international day of action.

- NOVEMBER 11 – 12, 2010
Departure of international delegates

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WORKSHOPS

Workshop #1: Issues & Struggles of Undocumented Workers  and Fighting for the Rights of Migrants (Organized by International Migrants Alliance IMA)

Workshop #2: Issues on Border Controls and Migrants in Transit (Organized by NAFCON)

Workshop #3: Labor export policies, state exactions, remittances and government accountability (Organized by Migrante International)

Workshop #4: The financial crisis and impact on labor rights of migrants (Organized by Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants and Ex- braceros del Norte

Workshop #5: Health and social services: problems and impact on sending & host countries (Organized by CARAM & Movimiento Migrante MesoAmericano (M3)

Workshop #6: Legal Mechanisms of Terror and the struggles of migrants and refugees (Organized by Migrante Europe)

Workshop #7: Climate change and impact on migration (Organized by IBON, Resist)

Workshop #8: Fighting Racism and Xenophobia (Organized by Migrante Canada)

Workshop #9: The Many Faces of Women Migration and their Struggle for their Rights (Organized by AMMORE, Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD)

Workshop #10: The struggle for recognition of domestic work as formal labor: Issues and Challenges (Organized by UFAWR;Kabalikat; Philippine Forum, AMCB, APWLD, Caram-Asia)

Workshop #11: Seafarers: Issues & concerns in organizing and empowerment (Organized by Migrante International)

Workshop #12: Social Costs of Forced Migration (Organized by: NAFCON, Familias Latinas Unidas, Movimiento Migrante Meso-Americano Madres del Centro America)

Workshop 13  – Indigenous people and migration (Organized by FIOB)