Comments from Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development on the Report of the UN Secretary General’s Report: International Migration and Development, 2006
- Document number
- 1998
- Date
- undated
- Title
- Comments from Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development on the Report of the UN Secretary General’s Report: International Migration and Development, 2006
- Author/publisher
- Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD)
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- Document type(s)
- Meeting Documentation/Conference Reports, Guidelines/Recommendations,
- Keywords
- Migrant rights; Migration management; Comprehensive approach to migration; Migration policy; Restrictive migration measures, Irregular Migration, Feminization of migration, Economic migration, Labour migration, Free movement, Undocumented migrants; Undocumented labour;
- Summary
- On 12 July, 2006, APWLD participated in the UN General Assembly's Informal Interactive Hearings on International Migration and Development with non-governmental organizations, civil society and the private sector, at United Nations Headquarters in New York . APWLD was one of the 15 member delegation from Asia and the only Asia- Pacific women's human rights regional network organisation presenting at the Hearings. The Hearings were an opportunity for the civil society groups to respond to the UN Secretary General's report on migration and development. This is an intervention made by Nalini Singh, APWLD Programme Officer for Labour and Migration Programme, on behalf of APWLD at the Hearings.
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