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(g) On 30 September and 1 October 2008, the Special Rapporteur attended
the International Meeting on the Protection of the Rights of Children in the Context
of International Migration, held in Mexico City and organized by the Office of the
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Government of
Mexico;
(h) On 24 and 25 October 2008, the Special Rapporteur participated,
together with the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including
its causes and consequences, Gulnara Shahinian, in the 2008 joint regional
consultation on migrant domestic workers, organized by the Asia Pacific Forum on
Women, Law and Development, the Coordination of Action Research on AIDS and
Mobility and the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women, held in Manila;
(i) From 27 to 29 October 2008, the Special Rapporteur attended the second
Global Forum on Migration and Development, held in Manila;
(j) On 7 November 2008, the Special Rapporteur participated in the fifth
International Congress on Migration, organized by Rafael Landívar University and
the Jesuit Migrant Service, in Guatemala City;
(k) On 13 November 2008, the Special Rapporteur participated in the 2008
Robert G. Mead, Jr., Lecture at the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
at the University of Connecticut, Hartford, United States of America;
(l) On 18 November 2008, the Special Rapporteur attended a working group
on United States-Mexico migration, held at the Woodrow Wilson International
Centre for Scholars, in Washington, D.C.;
(m) From 20 to 24 April 2009, the Special Rapporteur participated in the
Durban Review Conference, held in Geneva, pursuant to Assembly resolution
61/149;
(n) On 24 April 2009, the Special Rapporteur participated in an event on the
theme “Migration, discrimination and economic, social and cultural rights”, held in
parallel with the Durban Review Conference and organized by the Office of the
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, with the participation of the
International Labour Organization, the Office of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees and the International Organization for Migration;
(o) On 2 and 4 June 2009, the Special Rapporteur participated as an invited
guest in events on the theme “The global economic crisis: implications for migration
and development” and “Migrant children — unprotected and neglected in migration
policies?”, held in parallel with the eleventh session of the Human Rights Council
and organized by Migration Forum Asia, Migrants Rights International, Platform for
International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants and National Network for
Immigrant and Refugee Rights;
(p) On 3 June 2009, the Special Rapporteur participated as an invited guest
in an event on the theme “Migrant domestic workers forging ahead towards an ILO
convention: challenges and opportunities”, held in parallel with the eleventh session
of the Human Rights Council and organized by Migration Forum Asia, Migrants
Rights International and the Asian Migrant Domestic Workers Alliance. Also on
3 June, he participated in an expert meeting on migration and peace, organized by
the Society for International Human Rights Law of Spain.
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