Towards a gender-responsive Global Compact for Migration
Date: Wednesday, 21 March 2018, 11.30 a.m. – 12.45 p.m. EDT
Location: Conference Room 12, UN Conference Building, UN Headquarters, New York, NY 10017. Enter through the Visitors’ Entrance, 1st Avenue and East 46th Street.
Join us to take part in an interactive discussion on ways in which the Global Compact for Migration should address and reflect the rights, needs and vulnerabilities of all women and girls in migration in countries of origin, transit and destination. It will demonstrate opportunities for gender mainstreaming and for ensuring that there is a standalone principle to reaffirm the importance of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls in the Global Compact.
Speakers include:
- H.E. Mr. Juan Carlos Mendoza García, Permanent Representative of Costa Rica to the UN
- H.E. Ms. Louise Blais, Deputy Permanent Representative of Canada to the UN
- Ms. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director, UN Women
- Ms. María Landázuri, Member of the Committee on Migrant Workers
- Ms. Carla Mucavi, Director of FAO Liaison Office in New York
- Ms. Paola Cyment, Comisión Argentina para Refugiados y Migrantes (CAREF) and Women in Migration Network (WIMN)
- Dr. Jenna Hennebry, Co-founder and Senior Associate, International Migration Research Centre
Moderator: Mr. Craig Mokhiber, Director, New York Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
This event is open to UN-accredited media and will be webcast via UN Web TV.
