NATIONS UNIES
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COMMISSARIAT AUX DROITS DE LÕHOMME |
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UNITED NATIONS 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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