The event was co-organized by the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) and the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (CMW), in partnership with the Graduate Institute’s Global Migration Centre, The Geneva Human Rights Platform of the Geneva Academy, and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Following the morning consultation, a side event was held on the margins of the Human Rights Council at Palais des Nations and online. 

This side event to the 57th session of the UN Human Rights Council was co-organized by the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) and the Committee on Migrant Workers (CMW), in partnership with the Graduate Institute’s Global Migration Centre, The Geneva Human Rights Platform of the Geneva Academy, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. Additionally, this event was co-sponsored by UN Women, and the Permanent Missions of Australia, Colombia, and Mexico. Professor Vincent Chetail, Director of the Global Migration Centre, was part of the panel members. 

MODERATORS
Pablo Ceriani Cernadas, Vice Chair, Committee on Migrant Workers
Ibrahima Guissé, Member of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

PANEL
H.E. Omar Zniber, President of the UN Human Rights Council, and Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of Morocco to the UN in Geneva
H.E. Emily Roper, Deputy Permanent Representative of Australia to the UN in Geneva
H.E. Fernando Israel Espinosa Olivera, Deputy Permanent Representative of Mexico to the UN in Geneva
Adriana Quinones, Head of Human Rights and Development, UN Women Geneva
Benyam Mezmur, Member of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
Stéphane Jaquemet, COO and Director of Policy, International Catholic Migration Commission
Professor Vincent Chetail, Director of the Global Migration Centre, Geneva Graduate Institute

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