10:00

10:50

Forum opening. Welcoming remarks

• Аnna Ogrenchuk, President of the Ukrainian Bar Association, managing partner at LCF Law Group
• Serhii Nizhynskyi, Head of the UBA Committee on Migration Law
• Nataliya Forsyuk, Director General of the Government Office for Coordination of European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of the Secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine
• Mykhailo Nepran, Vice President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Ukraine
• Barbara Rotovnik, Border and Migration Manager, EU Delegation to Ukraine
• Eliza Galos, IOM Ukraine Migrant Protection and Assistance Programme Coordinator
• Christophe Beau, Senior Protection Officer, UNHCR Ukraine

10:50

12:00

Session 1. Ensuring the rights and freedoms of internally displaced persons: the challenges of today

Moderator: Serhii Nizhynskyi, Head of the UBA Committee on Migration Law

Issues for discussion:

Participants:

• Legislation on ensuring the rights and freedoms of internally displaced persons
• A positive commitment of the state regarding the rights of internally displaced persons and other victims of the conflict
• Judicial protection of the rights of internally displaced persons in Ukraine
• Integration of internally displaced persons and refugees into the local community
• suffrage of internally displaced persons

• Dmytro Lubinets, Chair of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Human Rights, Deoccupation and Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories in Donetsk, Luhansk Regions and the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, National Minorities and Interethnic Relations 
• Karolina Lindholm Billing, Representative, UNHCR Ukraine
• Nariman Ustaev, Director of the Institute of Geostrategy. I. Gasprinsky, Visiting Scholar at Stanford University, Adviser to the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Human Rights
• Olexsii Smyrnov, acting Head of Luhansk Regional State Administration

12:00

12:10

Break

12:10

13:10

Session 2. Labor migration. Combating human trafficking.

Moderator: Serhii Nizhynskyi, Head of the UBA Committee on Migration Law

Issues for discussion:

Participants:

• Employment of Ukrainians abroad
• licensing of intermediary activities
• Implementation of the common law of foreigners in the legislation of Ukraine: advantages and risks
• Social protection of foreign women in Ukraine and counteraction to gender stereotypes
• Preventive policy of the state on human trafficking
• Registers of victims
• Registers of offenders
• Registers of court decisions
• Work with the public sector

• Olga Makogon, Director of the State Employment Service (2019-2020). Editor-in-Chief of Personnel Management Magazine
• Ivan Nagornyak, Adviser to the Deputy Prime Minister on European and Euro-Atlantic Integration

13:10

13:20

Break

13:20

14:30

Session 3. Improving legislation and creating conditions to fulfill the potential of foreigners in Ukraine (migrants, socially vulnerable groups, refugees, stateless persons)

Moderator: Serhiy Saenko, Deputy Director - Head of the Department of Justice and Internal Affairs of the Department of the European Union and NATO of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine

Issues for discussion:

Participants:

• SMS strategy 2030 (potential action plan)
• informing people about the types of documents in the field of migration: volunteering, sports, marriage, business, labor

• Serhii Nizhynskyi, Head of the UBA Committee on Migration Law 
• Suzanne Mnatsakanyan, Project Manager, European Social Charter Department, Council of Europe
• Christophe Beau, Senior Protection Officer, UNHCR Ukraine
• Serhii Nizhynskyi, Head of the UBA Committee on Migration Law
  
• Olga Shpakovych, Doctor of Law, Professor of the Department of Comparative and European Law, Institute of International Relations, Taras Shevchenko National University

14:30

14:40

Final remarks