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HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

 

 

 

DAY OF GENERAL DISCUSSION ON MIGRANT DOMESTIC WORKERS

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Palais Wilson – Geneva, 14 October 2009

 

PROGRAMME

 

Morning Session 10:00 – 13:00

10:00 – 10:05 Opening – Mr. Abdelhamid El Jamri, Chair of the Committee on Migrant Workers

10:05 – 10:15 Welcome – Mr. Bacre Ndiaye, Director Human Rights Council and Treaties Division, Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights

10:15 – 10:25 Ms. Manuela Tomei, Chief TRAVAIL, International Labour Office – Introduction on issue and the process of drafting a new international instrument on domestic workers

10:25 – 10:35 Ms. Martina Liebsch, Advocacy Coordinator Migration, Trafficking and Gender, Caritas Internationalis

10:35 – 10:45 Ms. Lucie Detsi (ACLIColf/Italy)- testimony

 

Panel:

Existing and new responses in law

10:50 – 11:00 CMW member Ms. Ana Elizabeth Cubias – Application of the ICRMW to migrant domestic workers

11:00 – 11:10 Mr. Ibrahim Salama, Chief, Human Rights Treaties Branch, OHCHR – Application of international Human Rights Instruments to migrant domestic workers

11.10 – 11:20 CEDAW member Ms. Violet Awori – CEDAWÕs jurisprudence on migrant domestic workers

11:20 – 11:30 Ms. Katerine Landuyt, NORMES, International Labour Office – ILO Instruments related to migrant domestic workers

 

11:30 – 12:50 Plenary discussion

 

12:50 – 13:00 CMW Chair – closure of morning session and presentation of the working groups

 

Lunch break

 

Afternoon Session 15:00 – 18:00

 

Gaps and opportunities for protection and empowerment of migrant domestic workers

Two working groups in parallel:

 

15:00 – 16:30 Working Group 1: Recruitment and Employment of migrant domestic workers (chair: CMW member Mr. Josˇ Brillantes; rapporteur: ICMC)

 

15:00 – 16:30 Working Group 2: Effective protection of migrant domestic workers (chair: CMW member Ms. Anamar’a Dieguez; rapporteur: Caritas Internationalis)

 

Coffee break

 

17:00 – 17:15 Report to Plenary by the Rapporteur(s)

17:15 – 17:50 Discussion on report

17:50 – 18:00 Closure

 

 

 

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