1Order of the day, 27 February 2017

/ Human Rights Council
Intersessional panel discussion
Geneva, 6 October 2017
Order of the day
Plenary meeting – Room XX
Friday, 6October 2017
MORNING
10.00 – 13.00 / Intersessional panel discussion on human rights, climate change, migrants and persons displaced across international borders
Chair: H.E.Mr. Joaquín Alexander Maza Martelli,President of the Human Rights Council
Opening statement: Ms. Kate Gilmore, United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights
Keynote speaker: Ms. Louise Arbour, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for International Migration (by video message)
Panellists:
•Mr. Walter Kaelin, Envoy of the Chair of the Platform on Disaster Displacement
•Ms. Njeri Kabeberi, Executive Director, Greenpeace Africa
•Mr. Itinterunga Rae Bainteiti, National Coordinator, Kiribati National Youth Association of NGOs
•Ms. Erika Ramos,Founder, South American Network for Environmental Migrations (RESAMA)
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