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The World Social Forum on Migrations (WSFM) was born as a key feature of the World Social Forum, and was first held in Porto Alegre in 2005. This year, São Paulo in Brazil will be hosting the forum from 7 to 10 July 2016 under the slogan “Migrants: building alternatives to disorder and the global capital crisis“.

The Geneva launch of the MICIC Initiative “Guidelines to Protect Migrants in Countries Experiencing Conflict or Natural Disaster” will take place on Monday 27 June 2016, from 10.00-13.00 in Room XVIII at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.

Hosted by the governments of the Philippines and the United States, co-chairs of the Migrants in Countries in Crisis (MICIC) Initiative, the “Guidelines to Protect Migrants in Countries Experiencing Conflict or Natural Disaster” will be launched on 15 June 2016, at the UN ECOSOC Chamber in New York.