UNHCR/NGO Annual Consultations

UNHCR's annual consultations with NGOs will be held from 29 June to 1 July 2010, in Geneva. A mix of regional and thematic sessions are scheduled, with panels focusing on urban refugees, partnerships, stateless persons, IDPs, preventing sexual exploitation, addressing xenophobia, and women in protracted situations.

Check out the short and long versions of the agenda for more details. Background papers on a number of these issues are also available on the meeting web site.

The following side meetings are also taking place:

• Alternatives to immigration detention
• The Sphere Project: Achievements and ways forward
• From the margins to the centre: Realizing the rights of Refugee Women and Girls - A Meeting of the International Working Group to monitor the implementation of the ExCom Conclusion on Women and Girls at Risk
• Regional meetings
• UNHCR’s mandate status determination (RSD) procedures: Progress and current challenges
• From strategy to action: Next steps for supporting strong partnerships to address SGBV in displaced settings
• Promoting Resettlement in Europe - Partnership with NGOs
• A hearing on Boat People: Different people, different needs and rights to protection
• Count me in: Birth Registration – a protection tool

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