Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting on Freedom of Movement and Human Contacts
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This Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting (SHDM) will seek to address how the right to freedom of movement can be advanced and protected and how further progress could be achieved in facilitating cross-border human contacts. It will identify the challenges OSCE participating States currently face and discuss how they can be addressed, in order to ensure the full enjoyment of freedom of movement in the OSCE region. With the aim to explore possibilities for creating conditions for freer cross border movement, the SHDM will discuss on-going visa facilitation and liberalization dialogue between OSCE participating states, their impact on cross border mobility, and how new technologies and innovative approaches could be used to facilitate the processing of requests for entry into territories of OSCE participating States.
Recommendations made in relation to the above topics during the SHDM may be addressed to participating States, the OSCE at large, OSCE institutions, including the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE field operations, other inter-governmental organizations, as well as civil society actors in OSCE participating States.
Registration: Online registration is open to all participants at: http://meetings.odihr.pl. Participants are strongly encouraged to register by Wednesday, 24 April 2013. Registered participants will be able to collect their badges in the Hofburg Congress Centre, in the main entrance hall as of Thursday, 25 April 2013, from 09:00. The registration will also be available online after the deadline and during the Meeting on the spot.
Side Events: the deadline for submission of applications for side events is Monday, 15 April 2013. Side events can be organized by participants during lunch breaks or in the evening after the sessions. Organizers of side events are asked to fill out the checklist and send it to Mr. Ireneusz Stepinski at ireneusz.stepinski@odihr.pl. The checklist will be available on the website about one month before the Meeting. The final schedule of side events will be available on this web page by Wednesday, 17 April 2013.
Contact information:
Substantive content matters: Ms. Nathalie Tagwerker, Deputy Head of the Democratization Department at Nathalie.Tagwerker@odihr.pl or 48 22 5200 695
Organizational matters: Ms. Saida Manieva at Saida.Manieva@odihr.pl or + 48 22 5200 657
Registration of participants and organization of side events: Mr. Ireneusz Stepinski at Ireneusz.Stepinski@odihr.pl or +48 22 5200 658.