Model International Mobility Convention Launch in Nairobi

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Model International Mobility Convention Launch in Nairobi

March 22, 2018
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
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Columbia Global Centers | Nairobi, Westcom Point, 8th Fl, Block A, Mahiga Mairu Ave., Off Waiyaki Way, Westlands

After nearly two years of study and debate convened by the Columbia Global Policy Initiative's International Migration Project, the Model International Mobility Convention (MIMC) represents a consensus among over 40 academics and policymakers in the fields of migration, human rights, national security, labor economics, and refugee law. The MIMC provides a holistic and rights-based approach to international mobility that integrates the various regimes that seek to govern people on the move. In addition, it fills key gaps in international law that leave many people unprotected by establishing the minimum rights afforded to all people who cross state borders - whether as visitors, tourists, students, workers, residents, entrepreneurs, forced migrants, refugees, victims of trafficking, people caught in countries in crisis and family members - and defines their relationships to their communities of destination, origin, and transit. 

This launch event included a panel discussion with experts drawn from Government, academic and NGO sectors.
 
The event was free and open to the general public including; academics, policymakers and practitioners in the fields of economic migration, labor rights, public policy, international law, labor migration, forced migration and refugee law.

For more information on the event, contact [email protected]