EVENT: Migrant Smuggling and Trafficking in Persons on the African Continent: Multi-Disciplinary Approaches to Preventing and Prosecuting Crimes and Upholding the Human Rights
DATE: Thursday, August 26, 2021 from 10am to 11:30am GMT+1, 12am to 1:30pm EAT
LOCATION: Online. Please click here to attend:
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REGISTRATIONS:
Online, August 25, 2021 - The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) will hold this Thursday, August 26 a round table on migrant smuggling and trafficking in persons on the African continent.
Within the framework of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, African Regional Review Conference, the event aims to discuss multi-disciplinary approaches to preventing and prosecuting crimes and upholding human rights, bringing together the perspectives of experts at national, sub-regional and international levels to improve responses to migrant smuggling and trafficking in persons and promote safe migration across the African continent.
Discussions will focus on the importance of using evidence-based transnational responses to ensure border governance is effective and rights-based, in order to promote safe, orderly and regular migration especially when combating migrant smuggling and trafficking in persons.
This event is taking place in preparation for the Africa Regional Review Conference of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM), scheduled on 31 August and 1 September: an event jointly organized by the UN Network on Migration, the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), in partnership with the African Union Commission (AUC), and hosted by the Kingdom of Morocco.
Viewers can listen to discussions in English, French, Arabic and Portuguese.
Participants and journalists wishing to get in touch with the organizers for questions or interview requests may send an email to bahdja.sehli@un.org and claire.healy@un.org.