Special Policy Sessions
Child ProtectionThis year, the Montreal Millennium Summit is making an important change, offering an exclusive and choice meeting place for players in development. November 8 will be devoted to special sessions for a targeted professional audience convened to the Summit by invitation only.

Goal
Exchange best development practices in order to improve actions taken and accelerate achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.

Topics and speakers
List of speakers currently confirmed. Watch the Web site for regular panel updates.

Special Opening Ceremony
The Honourable Beverley Oda
Minister of International Cooperation, Canada

Morning panel Child survival

• Robert Black
  Professor, John Hopkins Bloomberg
  School of Public Health
• Mrs Sylla Habibatou Diallo
  Doctor, ASDAP - Association de Soutien au
  Développement des Activités de Population, Mali
• Venkatesh Mannar
  President, Micronutrient Initiative
• Mr. Kul Gautam
  Deputy Executive Director, UNICEF International
• President of session: Stephen Wallace
  Vice-president, Afghanistan Task Force, Canadian International Development Agency

Luncheon meeting: Corporate social responsibility

• Corinne Gendron
  Full Professor, Chair on Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development, UQAM
• Mr Christopher Avery
  Founder and Director, Business and Human Rights Resource Centre
• Mr. Louis Frenette
  President and Chief Executive Officer, Danone Canada
• President of session: M. Pierre Lemonde President and CEO, The Montreal Council on Foreign Relations

Afternoon panel: Child victims of armed conflict

• Susan McKay
  Professor, University of Wyoming; author of Where are the Girls? Girls in Fighting Forces in Northern Uganda, Sierra Leone, and Mozambique: Their Lives During and After War
• Rachel Harvey
  Head, International Policy and Programmes, Children's Legal Centre, University of Essex
• Ishmael Beah
  Former child soldier, author of A Long Way Gone. Memoirs of a Boy-Soldier
• Roméo Dallaire
  Senator, author of "Shake Hands with the Devil"
• President of session: Nigel Fisher
  President, UNICEF Canada

Link with Millennium Development Goals (MDG)
The special policy sessions will directly address the following MDG:

• Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
• Reduce child mortality
• Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
• Develop a global partnership for development

Participants
The Special Policy Sessions are intended exclusively for development professionals working in the following areas:

• Government organizations
• Non-governmental organizations
• International organizations
• The academic milieu
• The private sector

Location
Centre Mont-Royal
2200 Mansfield Street
Montreal, Quebec H3A 3R8
Canada

Results
A report on the Special Policy Sessions will be prepared at the end of the day and made public on the Montreal Millennium Summit Web site.

For more information
Please contact us.
Greater Montreal: (514) 769-5000.
Outside Montreal, toll free: 1-866-515-5009.