In 2017, in the lead up to the UN Global Compact on Migration, the Women in Migration Network sought input from women in all regions to better understand the specific realities faced by women in migration across the world and to formulate policy recommendations. We asked to hear the urgent concerns of women in migration (in home, transit, destination and return countries) and specific policy recommendations. What policy would improve the lives and fulfill the human rights of women in migration?
Comments were integrated into a document shared with UN member states at the December 2017 intergovernmental “synthesis” meeting in Guadalajara, Mexico, and in 2018 negotiations on the Global Compact in New York.
WIMN’s statement on the Global Compact on Migration here in English, French, and Spanish.
Issue Briefs:
- General Concerns. Spanish.
- Women’s Agency
- Push Factors
- Racial Discrimination and Xenophobia
- Regularisation
- Criminalisation & Firewalls
- Trafficking
- Smuggling
- Borders & Detention
- Labor Migration
