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PERMANENT COUNCIL OF THE OEA/Ser.G ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES CAJP/GT/TM-15/04 rev. 2 1 October 2004 COMMITTEE ON JURIDICAL AND POLITICAL AFFAIRS Original: Spanish

Working Group to Prepare an Inter-American Program for the Promotion and Protection of the Human Rights of Migrants including Migrant Workers and Their Families

PROGRAM SPECIAL MEETING:

September 30 to October 1, 2004 Washington, D.C.

Time: 9:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Place: Padilha Vidal Room (September 30) Hall of the Americas (October 1)

Thursday, September 30, 2004

9:30 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. OPENING SESSION

 Remarks by the Chair of the Permanent Council, Ambassador Carmen Marina Gutiérrez Salazar, Permanent Representative of Nicaragua to the OAS  Remarks by the Chair of the Working Group, Dr. Eduardo Acevedo Díaz, Alternate Representative of Argentina to the OAS  Election of the Rapporteur of the special meeting.

9:45 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. PANEL I

Draft “Inter-American Program for the Promotion and Protection of the Human Rights of Migrants in the OAS Framework,” prepared by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR)

 Dr. Freddy Gutiérrez, Special Rapporteur of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families in the Hemisphere - 2 -

Thursday, September 30, 2004 (continued)

10:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Dialogue with states

10:30 a.m. – 12:00 a.m. PANEL II

Experiences of the organs, agencies, and entities of the OAS

 Dr. Carmen Lomellin, Executive Secretary, Inter- American Commission of Women (CIM)  Dr. Jacsire Cutler, Office of Projects, Programs, and Best Practices for Development  Dr. Ana Pérez Katz, Office for the Promotion of Democracy  Dr. Christian Medina, Office of Education, Science, and Technology  Dr. Jane Thery, Office for the Summit Process

12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m. Dialogue with states

12:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Break

2:30 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. PANEL III

Experiences of other organizations

1. Experiences of multilateral organizations

 Dr. Eduardo Arboleda, Deputy Regional Representative, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)  Dr. Larry Kohler, Director of the Washington Office of the International Labour Organization (ILO)  Dr. Francis Sullivan, Regional Representative for North America and the Caribbean, International Organization for Migration (IOM)  Dr. Germán Mundaraín, Chairman of the Ibero- American Federation of Ombudsmen (IFO)

4:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Dialogue with states - 3 -

Friday, October 1, 2004

9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. PANEL III (continued)

2. Experiences of regional groups

 Dr. Luis E. Monzón, Coordinator, Technical Secretariat, Regional Conference on Migration (RCM)  Dr. Wilfredo Rosales Escobar, President pro tempore of the Central American Commission of Directors of Migration (OCAM)  Dr. Adriana Alfonso, Argentina, as a member country of the Political Consultation and Coordination Forum of MERCOSUR and Associate Members (FCCP)

10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Dialogue with states

11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. PANEL III (continued)

3. Experiences of civil society organizations  Sharon O’Reagan, Assistant Director, Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL)  Ben Jonson, Director, Immigration Policy Center  Karina Arias Muñoz, Coordinator for Liaison and Promotion, Without Borders, IAP  María Elena Jarquín Sánchez, Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Science and the Humanities of the Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM  Olga Lucía Gómez, Fundación Esperanza, Colombia

12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m. Dialogue with states

12:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Break

2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. PANEL IV

Dialogue among governmental experts from the member states

 Dr. Adriana Alfonso, Chief, Office of International Affairs, National Directorate for Migration, Argentina  Dr. Emina Tudakovic, Principal Advisor, International Policy Coordination, Citizenship, and Immigration (CIC) of Canada - 4 -

Friday, October 1, 2004 (continued)

 Dr. Ana Isabel Cubías Medina, Director, Unit for Integral Social Development, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of El Salvador  Lilian Sotolongo Dorka, Esq. and Dr. Alexander Goniprow, US Department of Education  Dr. Susan Shriner, US Department of Homeland Security  Dr. Shirley J. Smith, US Department of Labor  Ambassador Carla Rodríguez, General Director for Multilateral Policy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Guatemala

4:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. PRELIMINARY REPORT OF THE RAPPORTEUR OF THE MEETING

 Presentation of the preliminary report of the Rapporteur of the special meeting

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