programme

Policy Symposium
on Migration and
Inequality in the
Global South
12 October 2023
Room III, Palais des Nations, Geneva

9:00–09:30 opening session chairKatja Hujo, Senior Research Coordinator, UNRISD

Paul Ladd, Director, UNRISD
David Passarelli, Executive Director, UNU-CPR
Eva Åkerman Börje, Director, Department of Policy and Research, IOM
Federico Bonaglia, Deputy Director, OECD Development Centre
Philippe Vanhuynegem, Chief, Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work Branch, ILO
Todd Howland, Chief, Development, Economic and Social Issues Branch, OHCHR

09:30–10:00 keynote speech chairHeaven Crawley, MIDEQ

Addressing inequalities Louis Herns Marcelin, INURED Haiti
through migration
in the Global South:
An intersectional
perspective
10:00–10:15 tea/coffee break

10:15–11:45 substantive session 1 chair Jason Gagnon, OECD Development Centre

rapporteur Gady Saiovici, ILO
Poverty and income panelists
inequalities Anita Ghimire, Nepal Institute for Social and Environmental Research
Jessica Hagen-Zanker, ODI
Dereje Feyissa, Ethiopian Peace Institute
organizers Lorraine Wong, ILO
OECD, ILO discussant Jason Gagnon, OECD Development Centre

11:45–13:30 lunch break

13:30–15:15 substantive session 2 chair Marie McAuliffe, IOM

rapporteur Maggie Carter, UNRISD
Gender inequalities panelists
and migration Matthew Walsham, University of Manchester
Toni Cela, INURED Haiti
Mary Setrana, University of Ghana, Legon
organizers Ambassador Yvette Stevens, Geneva Centre for Security Policy
UNRISD, IOM discussant Jean D’Cunha, UN Women

15:15–15:45 tea/coffee break

15:45–17:30 substantive session 3 chair Heaven Crawley, MIDEQ

rapporteur Baindu Kallon, Coventry University
Racism, xenophobia panelists
and migration narratives Tebkieta Alexandra Tapsoba, Higher Institute of Population Sciences (ISSP), Burkina
Faso
Carolina Hernandez, OHCHR
Ben Worku-Dix, PositiveNegatives
Ibrahima Guissé, Member and Rapporteur, United Nations Committee on the
organizers Elimination of Racial Discrimination
UNU-CPR, OHCHR discussant David Oliver Yambio, Refugees in Libya

17:30–18:00 closing session Wrap-up and looking forward

18:00–19:30 Art exhibition and reception

Programme subject to change. Please visit the event page for latest updates.