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Dear Friends, As you may know, the UN General Assembly will be holding a special High-Level Dialogue on Migration in September. Civil society organizations are invited to take part in hearings scheduled for 12 July in New York. Please find below links to the website where your readers can apply to participate. Please note that the deadline for this is 5th May 2006. This is apparently to allow for visas to be processed. Participants may also need two months to find the funds for their travel. If there is any possibility you could post these details on your websites this week, please do so to inform as many interested civil society organizations as possible. ________________________________ Subject: High-Level Dialogue/Civil Society Hearing Preparations for the July 12 civil society hearings (before the September HLD). 1. NGO Participation in the Hearings NGOs can nominate one person to represent them at the civil society meetings. The application form is DUE on MAY 5 and can only be submitted online. There is a lot of worry that we cannot get word out in time, the reason for the May 5th deadline is U.S. immigration rules---they need two months to process visas for people attending the conference. ACTION POINT: Circulate information to all networks, contacts, and listserves-encourage NGOs to participate. http://www.un.org/esa/population/hldmigration/ --they can access the application at the link above --they should make sure to fill in a section called "key messages" because otherwise they may not have the opportunity to speak. --they should read the "information note" on the criteria required to be a representative 2. NGO Taskforce There is a small NGO taskforce, already constituted, that will select the participants out of all the applications. This taskforce will also make suggestions to the President of the General Assembly on the procedures/agenda on July 12 itself. The members of this taskforce, their home base, and the constituency they are representing are: Mari Linloekken, Norway, NGOs from receiving countries William Gois, Philippines, NGOs from sending countries Adam Greene, New York, Private sector Gemma Adaba, New York, Trade unions Johan Ketelers, Geneva, Faith-based organizations Vidar Ekehaug, Youth Not confirmed-Gloria Camacho/Norma Sanchis/Martha Cranshaw - Women (Latin America) 3. Agenda for July 12 The tentative agenda for July 12 is for a morning session (to focus on remittances, economic development, etc.) and an afternoon session (to focus on human rights, trafficking, etc.). The current format is the same as the Millenium Summit last year Human Rights Watch http://www.hrw.org/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Note: The material contained in this communication comes to you from the Forced Migration Discussion List which is moderated by the Refugee Studies Centre (RSC), University of Oxford. It does not necessarily reflect the views of the RSC or the University. If you re-print, copy, archive or re-post this message please retain this disclaimer. Quotations or extracts should include attribution to the original sources. List archives are available at: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/forced-migration.html