Tag Archives: WSFM

Post- #HLD2013: What`s Next? (WTO and more…)

Posted on October 7, 2013 by Dr. Stefan Rother

It is not the beginning of the end – just the end of the beginning…The old saying seems particularly fitting in the case of the 2013 UN High-Level Dialogue on Migration and Development. It has been an extremely busy week … Continue reading →

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HLD parallel event I: Registration open for People’s Global Action (PGA) on Migration, Development and Human Rights

Posted on August 23, 2013 by Dr. Stefan Rother

(At least) two parallel events organized by civil socety will take place during the UN High-Level Dialogue (HLD) this coming October. One of them is the People’s Global Action (PGA) on Migration, Development and Human Rights, a process that actually … Continue reading →

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Some news reports on the World Social Forum

Posted on December 6, 2012 by Dr. Stefan Rother

Here are links to some media reports on the WSFM – the pickings are rather slim so far… (to be updated)

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NAGKAISA, NAGKAISA – WSFM Bonificacio Day Worker and Migrant Demonstrations

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Dr. Stefan Rother

The closing day of the World Social Forum on Migration (WSFM) coincided with the national Holiday dedicated to Andres Bonifacio – a warehouse worker from Fressel and Company, born 30 November 1863 who led a nationalist and worker led revolution against the … Continue reading →

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International Migrants’ Tribunal: Miss Saigon vs. the GFMD

Posted on November 29, 2012 by Dr. Stefan Rother

“GUILTY as charged”: This was the – not completely surprising  – verdict spoken today in the “Internation Migrants’ Tribunal on the GFMD”. In a parallel event to the World Social Forum on Migration (WSFM), five “judges”, among them the renowned … Continue reading →

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Opening of the World Social Forum – another world is possible!

Posted on November 26, 2012 by Dr. Stefan Rother

“I am not nostalgic for the times when we were distracted by what was happening at the parallel or at the anti-Forum”, Peter Sutherland remarked at the GFMD in Mauritius last week. Well, unlike the UN Special Representative  for Migration I … Continue reading →

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