Please donate at year’s end
2024 has been an inspiring and impactful year for Women in Migration Network (WIMN), capped by the Feminist Forum on Migration and Displacement (FFMD) in Bangkok, Thailand, just concluded this month. It could not have been a more fitting culmination to this busy year.
Go here to see a full recap of our activities.
Please consider an end-of-the year donation to WIMN. Your support helps us to amplify the progress of the past year and move forward with exciting plans for the next year and beyond as we make space for women in migration to shape the policies that impact their lives.
This year, WIMN committed to expanding and strengthening grassroots participation and language justice, while taking steps to build a bottom-up, intersectional feminist migration policy. The FFMD exemplified this commitment.
Organized with WIMN members and partners, the FFMD brought together over 120 participants from 35 countries towards envisioning a feminist migration policy. Under the banner of “Feminist Solidarity: Rights without Borders,” the diverse grassroots turnout and interactive agenda fueled new ideas, refinements and energy. This included a call for solidarity at the closing plenary of the AWID (Association for Women’s Rights in Development) Forum following the FFMD.
Read the full statement from the FFMD here.
Here’s a snapshot of our work in 2024:
Throughout the year, WIMN members actively participated in global spaces, advocating from their own institutions and our collective framework on feminist migration policies. This included:
- The Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) and the annual meeting of the UN Network on Migration in February.
- The 68th UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), where we coordinated a parallel event and released Policy Demands: Gender, Climate and Migration.
- As an active member of the Gender Workstream of the UN Network on Migration, we collaborated to develop gendered indicators as a contribution to the UNNM Indicators that will measure progress on implementation of the Global Compact for Migration (GCM).
- In October, WIMN Board Member Lucy Turay, founder of the Domestic Workers Advocacy Network (DoWAN) in Sierra Leone, represented WIMN as a speaker at the Global Compact on Migration (GCM) Regional Review in Addis Ababa.
In other activities, WIMN:
Hosted a dialogue in May focused on the displacement of the Guatemalan community of Laguna Larga and spotlighted the resistance and resilience of people to environmental exploitation. This was through our ongoing work on gender, climate, displacement and community resistance. Multilingual info-graphics from the dialogues can be found here.
- Convened a second cohort of LIGA, our global advocacy leadership development program. Four local organizations, based in Kuwait, Thailand, Indonesia and Nepal that are engaged in migrant rights advocacy have been involved in this virtual program.
- Called for an Immediate and Permanent Ceasefire in Gaza and an end to occupation. Our May statement noted the role this conflict is playing in massive displacement and the gendered impacts of the humanitarian crisis.
- Issued an “explainer” on gender, trade and migration this past September in partnership with the Gender & Trade Coalition, where we are an active member.
Looking to 2025, WIMN will continue to create space for grassroots participation in advocacy to advance feminist migration policies in activities like the UN Commission on the Status of Women (Beijing +30) and the GFMD in Colombia.
But to be more effective and accountable in our advocacy, growing our membership, strengthening our staffing and operational capacity and expanding resources remain paramount. We invite your continued connection and support of WIMN on this journey.
Thank you – and our best wishes for the holidays and the New Year.