A/64/213 (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. 4 09-43777

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