Unemployment, Decent Work and Migration
16 Jun 2012, 11:00:00-13:30:00
Recommendations
- Put education in the core of the Sustainable Development Goals agenda.
- Commit to a Decent Work for All goal by 2030, including the right to bargain collectively, unemployment reduction, elimination of precarious work, gender equality at the workplace and promotion of green and decent jobs, taking into account the special needs of women and youth; as well as to a Social Protection for All goal by 2030, guaranteeing social protection, at least at the level of national floors, including minimum wages and guarantees for access to health care, and income support for unemployed, aged, disabled, children and pregnant women.
- Compel national governments to respect the human rights of all migrant workers and their families including those in Temporary Foreign Worker programs and those climate refugees who will be displaced by environmental impacts.
| Panelists | |
 Mr. Jonathan Watts (United Kingdom)
The Gaurdian Moderator |  Mr. Kersten-Karl Barth
Director, Siemens Global Sustainability |
 Mr. Maurice Strong (Canada)
Secretary General, Stockholm Conference and Rio Summit |  Mr. Daniel Iliescu(Brazil)
President, National Union of Students |
 Ms. Carmen Helena Ferreira Foro (Brazil)
Secretary for Women Rural Workers National Confederation of Agricultural Workers (CONTAG) |  Ms. Deborah Wince-Smith (United States of America)
President, The Council on Competitiveness |
 Dr. James K. Galbraith (United States of America)
Professor, Texas University |  Dr. Lu Hulin (China)
Professor, Beijing University |
 Ms. Nana-Fosu Randall (Ghana)
Founder and President, Voices of African Mothers (VAM) |  Ms. Sharan Burrow (Australia)
Secretary-General, International Trade Union Confederation |
 Ms. Ivana Savich (Serbia)
Co-ordinator, CSD Youth Caucus | |
| Facilitators of the online discussion | |
 Dr. Stephen Hamilton (United States of America)
Cornell University Facilitator |  Mr. Eduardo Luiz Gonçalves Rios-Neto (Brazil)
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Facilitator |
 Mr. Neville Ying (Jamaica)
University of the West Indies Facilitator | |