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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 5, 2025
Women in Migration Network Launches Report on Migration
& Gender Equality Ahead of Beijing+30 Review
As the world marks the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA), the Women in Migration Network (WIMN) is launching a report, “Women in Migration Still Seek Inclusion in the Equity & Equality Agenda.” The report examines the state of women in migration and underscores the urgent need to position migration at the center of the global gender equality agenda. While the BPfA has advanced women’s rights, it has historically overlooked the complexities of migration and its profound impact on women and gender-diverse individuals.
Amid rising conflicts, political violence, climate crises, and growing authoritarianism, the report highlights the increasing vulnerabilities migrant women face. It calls for a bold, rights-based approach that moves beyond outdated protectionist frameworks and instead promotes agency, justice, and systemic transformation.
WIMN urges civil society, governments, and the UN System to take decisive action for gender equity by recognizing migration as a central cross-cutting issue. The report outlines urgent policy recommendations for governments and the Commission on the Status of Women, including pathways for regularization, an end to detention and criminalization, stronger labor protections, and inclusive decision-making structures. It calls on all stakeholders to ensure migration and migrant women’s rights remain at the forefront of global efforts and are integrated across all twelve critical areas of the Beijing Platform for Action.
“The Beijing+30 review presents a pivotal opportunity to reframe migration as a gender justice issue. We must recognize the unique challenges migrant women face in all their diversity and implement policies that uphold their rights and ensure their full participation,” said Paola Cyment, advocacy lead at the Women in Migration Network. “Governments, the UN System, and civil society must take concrete steps to affirm that migrant rights are women’s rights and human rights.”
WIMN will officially launch the report at a hybrid parallel event during the sixty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW69) in New York. Titled “Voices From the Ground: 30 Years of Migrant Women’s Rights & the Beijing Platform,” the event on March 13 will serve as a critical platform for mobilizing stakeholders and advocating for integrating migration into the global gender equality agenda.
About WIMN
Women in Migration Network (WIMN) is an international network focused on the rights of women in migration. We create and promote human rights-based and feminist global migration policies in an era dominated by economic, social, and political inequities and hostile systems toward people in migration. We lift up and support the experiences, voices, and agency of all women in migration as essential change makers on the road to a more just world.
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For media inquiries or further information, contact:
[Catherine Tactaquin: tactaquin.catherine@womeninmigration.org] (GMT-8)
[Tsedenya Girmay: wimninfo@womeninmigration.org] (GMT+3)