Full rights and status for all migrant care workers 29 October 2025As the Women in Migration Network marks the UN International Day of Care and Support on 29 October, we call attention to the globalized and racialized international division of care work. Care work is...
Feminist Organizing + Labor Rights
Care Work at a Cost: The Plight of Migrant Domestic Workers
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) has just published this article by Priyanka Kapar, an FES Program Officer for the Regional Gender Justice Project in Asia at FES Nepal. Priyanka atttended last month's Feminist Forum on Migration and Displacement -- co-organized by WIMN...
IDWF: Domestic Workers and the Care Economy
The International Domestic Workers federation, a WIMN member, has produced this position paper in preparation for the General Discussion on Decent Work and the Care Economy at the 112th International Labour Conference in Geneva in early June 2024. Domestic...
WIMN at the UN Commission on the Status of Women – CSW68
Women in Migration Network and members will participate in several activities commemorating International Women's Day and the convening of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW68) in New York. The CSW meets March 11 - 22, 2024. Selected Side Events: GenMig...
Solidarity with the International Day of Care and Support – Oct. 29, 2023
Read WIMN’s statement on the International Day of Care and Support: Putting Care Work at the Center of Society and Economy - Let's Value It! (In English, Spanish, French & Arabic)Putting care work at the center of society and economy. Let’s value it! (English)...
Heroes, Victims, or Slaves? Workers! A new report from GAATW
Strengthening migrant and trafficked women’s rights to inclusive re/integration in Southeast Asia and Europe GAATW, the Global Alliance Against Traffick in Women and a member of WIMN, has published a new report based on qualitative interviews with 329...
Women, Work, Migration and Technology (CSW 67 Co-sponsored event)
At this event, we heard directly from women migrant workers, labour rights organisers and human rights activists who addressed some of the more harmful effects of technological advances in the context of labour exploitation and trafficking. Our speakers provided...
Women Workers Organizing: Transforming the Gig Economy through Collective Action
A side event hosted by Solidarity Center during CSW67, 2023.
Over one hundred mark International Women’s Day with rally outside the United Nations
Over one hundred women gathered on March 8 at Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza to celebrate International Women’s Day and the female workforce. Assembling in the shadow of the United Nations, the event looked to lift up the rights of women workers who are instrumental in...
Viernes Feministas: Conversaciones sobre Migración Laboral desde una Perspectiva Feminista
Read in English Únete a esta serie de diálogos que comienzan el próximo 23 de abril, una iniciativa colaborativa Asociación para los Derechos de las Mujeres y el Desarrollo (AWID por sus siglas en inglés), Focus on Labour Exploitation (FLEX), la Alianza Global contra...