All sessions are hosted by the UN Network in collaboration with Network members, Member States and/or stakeholders
| Date | Topic | Working Group (WG) and Co-leads | Format, Audience and Purpose | Documents |
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| 7 May | Safe and Inclusive Access to Services | WG6: WHO, UN Habitat | Format: Listening Sessions (2) Audience: Country and regional level stakeholders/civil society and UN Networks Purpose: Draw inputs from stakeholders towards drafting a policy brief. Possible focus areas include access to health services and social protection measures for migrants in COVID-19 policy responses, highlighting vulnerable groups (e.g. undocumented migrants, women, children, migrants with a disability) and best practices by States, cities and stakeholders providing access to services for migrant populations without discrimination. | |
| 20 May | Alternatives to detention | WG2: IDC, UNICEF, UNHCR | Format: Listening Sessions (2) Audience: Civil society and UN Networks Purpose: Listening session with civil society, to draw out specific country examples in relation to inform the WG policy brief COVID-19: Recommendations and Good Practices –and to open a space to share country-level and regional concerns and positive practices. |
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| 28 May | Future of Human Mobility | IOM ODG | Format: Webinar Audience: UN system, Member States, stakeholders Purpose: To dialogue on longer term implications on mobility, on combatting xenophobia and drawing lessons and practices from Member States. | |
| 4th June | Alternatives to Detention | WG2: IDC, UNICEF, UNHCR | Format: ‘Migration Coffee’ informal Zoom gathering Audience: Member States, Network Purpose: To gain insight into the activities of this thematic Working Group with a particular focus on the recent Policy Brief "COVID-19 & Immigration Detention: What Can Governments and Other Stakeholders Do?" | |
| 9th June | Regular pathways | WG3: OHCHR, Act Alliance, Asia-Pacific Refugee Rights Network | Format: Listening Sessions (2) Audience: Country and regional level stakeholders/civil society and UN Networks Purpose: Draw inputs from stakeholders towards drafting a policy brief. Possible topics include: a) admission and stay policies in the context of COVID-19 migration responses, highlighting examples of best practice; b) heightened risks of discriminatory practices across migration pathways for migrants in vulnerable situations in the context of COVID-19, highlighting mitigation measures | |
| 11th June | Gender-specific Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Migrants | Women in Migration Network, UN Women | Format: Listening Sessions (2) Audience: TBD Purpose: TBD | |
| 17th June | COVID-19 and People on the Move | António Vitorino, Liu Zhenmin, Gillian Triggs, Charlotte Petri Gornitzka, Asako Okai, Moussa Oumarou, Lead Discussant: | Format: Webinar Audience: Member States, UN Agencies, Civil Society Purpose: Discussion of the SGs latest report | |
| 18th June | Gender-perspectives on COVID-19 impacts and practices | UN Women, Women in Migration Network | Format: Webinar Audience: Member States Purpose: Dialogue with Member States and stakeholders on country-level good practices and recommendations for migrant women in relation to UN Women policy briefs ‘Addressing the Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Women Migrant Workers’ and ‘The Impact of COVID-19 on Women’ | Full Webinar |
| 2nd July | Addressing the vulnerabilities of migrant workers in agriculture during and after the COVID-19 pandemic | FAO | Format: Listening Sessions Audience: Country and regional level stakeholders/civil society and UN Networks Purpose: Listening Sessions with civil society and other stakeholders to look at the measures that are being taken and the lesson learned to improve conditions for migrants working in agri-food systems during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic and give voice to the most vulnerable and high risk sub-groups. | |
| July 9th | COVID-19 and human trafficking | UNODC, ICAT | Format: Listening Sessions (2) Audience: Country and regional level stakeholders/civil society and UN Networks Purpose: Listening Sessions with civil society and other stakeholders to focus on the impact of COVID-19 on the crime of trafficking in persons, providing a space to civil society organizations, frontline responders and specialists to hare updates on trends, challenges, lessons learned and examples of ongoing collaboration among first responders and stakeholders in all regions. | |
| TBD | Alternatives to Detention | WG2: IDC, UNICEF, UNHCR | Format: Webinar Audience: Member States, stakeholders, Network Purpose: Webinar with Member States to get direct (or indirect through the Geneva missions) feedback on the WG policy brief providing practical guidance to Member States on protecting migrants in the context of immigration detention and COVID-19 and to showcase and open a space for government implementers to elaborate on country examples from the policy brief. | |
| TBD | Migrant Children and Youth: Impacts and Practices | UNICEF, Major Group on Children and Youth, Child Rights Initiative | Format: TBD | |
| TBD | Latin America: Regional impacts and practices | Bloque Latinoamericao | Format: Listening Session in Spanish and English, with simultaneous interpretation Audience: Latin American civil society, stakeholders and UN regional and country Networks Purpose: Provide greater language accessibility to local CSOs and networks and draw regional dimensions of COVID-19 implications on human mobility | |
Pipeline (full details tbc) | ||||
| Civil Society Mapping Reports | Mixed Migration Center, others | Webinar | ||
| TBD | CERAH, Geneva Graduate Institute | Published commentary on COVID-19 and the GCM | ||
| TBD | Zolberg Institute, New School | |||
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*References to Kosovo shall be understood to be in the context of United Nations Security Council resolution 1244 (1999).
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