Alternatives to Detention, Protection at Sea and Trafficking: From Pledges to Practice - Scaling Up Responses

Advancing opportunities for multi-stakeholder pledge implementation

Alternatives to Detention, Protection at Sea and Trafficking: From Pledges to Practice - Scaling Up Responses

Advancing opportunities for multi-stakeholder pledge implementation
Date
Time
09:30 CEST
Location
Geneva and Online
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A woman standing at a podium with the Global Refugee Forum logo on it. Behind her are flags on poles, and behind those a blue backdrop with the Global Refugee Forum logo on it.

Carolina Gottardo, Executive Director of International Detention Coalition (IDC), announces the Developing Alternatives to Immigration Detention and Ending Immigration Detention of Asylum-Seeking, Refugee, Stateless and Migrant Children and their Families pledge at the Global Refugee Forum 2023.

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Agenda

  • 09:30 – 09:45 Welcome & Introduction: The Route-Based Approach and the GRF multistakeholder pledges
    Ruven Menikdiwela, Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, UNHCR
  • 09:45 – 10:30 Discussion panel: Need for further action on Alternatives to Detention, Protection at Sea and Trafficking along the Routes
    Moderator: Patrick Eba, Deputy Director, Policy and Law Service, Division of International Protection and Solutions, UNHCR
    • Siobhan Mullally, UN Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons & Chair of Platform of Independent Experts on Refugee Rights (PIERR)
    • Abdul Aziz Muhamat, Advocacy Fellow and Coordinator, Global Detention Project
    • Paulo Alexandre de Carvalho Pisco, Rapporteur on 'Saving migrants' lives at sea and protecting their human rights' of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
  • Q&A
  • 10:30 – 10:45 Break
  • 10:45 – 11:50 Stocktaking, promising practices of the pledges on alternatives to immigration detention, protection at sea, and trafficking
    Moderator: Valerie Svobodova, Head of Section, Asylum and Migration, Division of International Protection and Solutions, UNHCR
    • Sanjula Weerasinghe, IFRC
    • Richard Watts, FHAS
    • Tasha Gill, Senior Adviser, UNICEF
    • Luisa Viera Barbosa, IDC
    • Irina Todorova, IOM
    • Martin Fowke, UNODC
  • Interventions from the floor
  • 11:50 – 12:00 Closing and Next Steps
    Nicolas Brass, Senior Policy Adviser, GCR, Division of International Protection and Solutions, UNHCR

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