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15.
On October 16, he gave a lecture entitled Challenges of Migration Policies from a
Human Rights Perspective, at a conference held by the Universidad Austral de Chile, in
Valdivia.
16.
On 26 October, he gave a lecture entitled Migration Movements in South America,
for the postgraduate programme on migration and asylum at the National University of Lanús,
Buenos Aires.
17.
On 28 October, he gave a lecture on current trends in international migration and their
impact on the human rights of migrants, at the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility
at the New School for Social Research, New York.
18.
On 29 October, he attended a webinar on access to justice for migrants, held by the
International Organization for Migration Mexico mission and Sin Fronteras, and gave a
lecture on the role and the work of his mandate at the law school of the University of Colorado
Boulder.
19.
On 4 November, he took part as a panellist in a webinar entitled Alternatives to
Migratory Detention in the International Context, organized by the Cepaim Foundation
(Valencia, Spain) and the Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants.
20.
On 10 November, he participated in a webinar held by the International Center for
Not-for-Profit Law and Vuka! Allies to disseminate further his report on the right of freedom
of association.
21.
On 12 November, he spoke at a panel on gender and migration at the fourth Congress
to Build Peace from a Gender Perspective, organized by the Ibero-American University in
Tijuana, Mexico.
22.
On 12 and 13 November, he took part in the regional review of the Global Compact
for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration for the Economic Commission for Europe (ECE)
countries.
23.
On 18 and 25 November, he attended conferences at University Carlos III of Madrid
– the first entitled Multilateralism, Migration and the Global Compact and the second entitled
Criminalization and Decriminalization of Migrations.
24.
On 3 December, the Special Rapporteur, together with the Office of the Special
Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence Against Children, the Permanent
Mission of Colombia to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in
Geneva, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the Office of the United Nations
High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Detention Coalition, held
an event to launch his report entitled Ending Immigration Detention of Children.
25.
On 10 December, he was a keynote speaker at the thirtieth anniversary of the Institute
for Human Rights at University Carlos III of Madrid, with a presentation entitled Human
Rights in the World Today.
26.
On 15 and 16 December, he took part in the second annual meeting of the United
Nations Network on Migration, and on 17 December in a meeting of the Steering Committee
of the Start-up Fund for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration.
27.
On 18 January 2021, he participated in the Global Forum on Migration and
Development.
28.
On 20 January, he spoke at a panel of the Frontier Dialogue on addressing structural
racial and ethnicity-based discrimination through COVID-19 recovery plans.
29.
On 24 February, he participated in the regional review conference of the Global
Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration in the Arab States region.
30.
On 10 March, he participated in the general debate for the Asia-Pacific regional
review of implementation of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration.
31.
On 25 March, at the invitation of the Inter-American Association of Public Defenders
and Eurosocial, he took part in a webinar on access to justice for migrants.
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