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Happy New Year from Women in Migration Network
As we turn the corner to a new year, Women in Migration Network sends a message of solidarity, justice and peace to our friends, colleagues, and...
WIMN mobilizing grassroots voices for change!
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...
WIMN’s 2024 End-of-the-Year Wrap Up
2024 has been an inspiring and impactful year for Women in Migration Network (WIMN), capped by the Feminist Forum on Migration and Displacement...
WIMN Input to CMW/CERD joint comment on xenophobia and impact on rights of migrants, their families and other non-citizens affected by racial discrimination
Blog, Theme: Building Analysis, Theme: Policy Advocacy
In March 2024 WIMN provided input to the UN Committee on Migrant Workers (CMW) and Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) joint comment "on public policies for addressing and eradicating xenophobia and its impact on the rights of migrants, their...
WIMN Members at the Global Forum on Migration & Development – January 2024
Blog, GFMD, Latest, Theme: Policy Advocacy, Theme: Women's Voices
Some 20 Women in Migration Network members converged in Geneva at the end of January for the 14th Global Forum on Migration and Development, or GFMD. The Summit included government delegations and stakeholders from various regions and civil society sectors. WIMN ...
WIMN end-of-year letter 2023
Clic aquí para leer en español On December 10, we celebrated the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which grounds our work for the rights of women in migration and all people. As we approach the end of 2023 with a mix of emotions...
WIMN’s LIGA Program — Leadership in Global Advocacy
Blog, Latest, Theme: Policy Advocacy, Theme: Women's Voices
In June 2023 WIMN launched its new pilot program, Leadership in Global Advocacy or “LIGA” to help strengthen grassroots voices in international migrant rights advocacy. The program aims to create a strong, participatory, collective process that enhances leadership and...
A Worker is a Worker: Protecting the Labour Rights of Workers on the Move
Blog, Building Analysis + Labor Rights, Policy Advocacy + Labor Rights, Sectors + Labor Rights, Throughline: Labor Rights
In the latest issue of The Global Labour Rights Reporter, Neha Misra of the Solidarity Center -- a member of Women in Migration Network -- provides a succinct overview of the significant challenges for the rights and conditions of today's migrant workers around the...
Interview with Bandana Pattanaik, GAATW: The situation of migrant women in South Asia
Blog, Media: Video, Sectors + Labor Rights, Women's Voices + Labor Rights
A wonderful interview with Bandana Pattanaik, International Coordinator of the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW), a member of WIMN. Conducted in May, 2023 and addressing the situation of migrant women in South Asia. Watch the video here:...
WIMN Remarks at GCM Talks, April 2023
Blog, GCM, Theme: Policy Advocacy, UN Migration Network
Paola Cyment shared WIMN's remarks at the launch of the UN's new "Anti-Discrimination Tool" on April 27, 2023. She drew on WIMN's work to strengthen intersectionality in our analysis and practice. "An intersectional approach needs to consider and to examine historical...
Women in Migration Network at UN CSW 67, New York, March 2023
Blog, CSW, Theme: Women's Voices
By Carol Barton WIMN had a strong presence at the UN CSW, which focused on the digital economy. Members from GAATW, MigrantRights.org, ACT Alliance and a large Trade Union delegation – Women, Power, Unions, including IDWF, ITUC, PSI and Solidarity Center – were...
International Women’s Day Rally 2023
Blog, CSW, Latest, Throughline: Labor Rights
On March 8, 2023 -- International Women's Day -- WIMN co-sponsored a rally outside of the United Nations to raise visibility of women workers, including migrant, rural and displaced women workers. At the event we called for: Safe, rights-based and regular...
The human cost of border deterrence
Blog, GCM, Theme: Policy Advocacy
During the UN's International Migration Review Forum (IMRF), in May 2022, officials from around the world gathered to evaluate progress on the Global Compact of Migration -- their governments continue to build walls, militarise borders, and criminalise human mobility....
Decent work for all, including migrants
Blog, GCM, Policy Advocacy + Labor Rights, Theme: Policy Advocacy, Throughline: Labor Rights
The International Migration Review Forum, the primary intergovernmental platform to discuss and share progress on the implementation of the Global Compact on Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM), took place at the United Nations in New York in May 2022. It...
What should the world do about climate migrants
Blog, GCM, Policy Advocacy + Climate Change, Theme: Policy Advocacy, Throughline: Climate
The climate crisis and migration are two of the most critical – and controversial – issues of the current era. They are also inescapably linked, and if we are to address both then we must do more than mitigate negative impacts of climate change. We need to put people...