25 September 2025 Representatives from several WIMN organizations participated in the 15th Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) in Riohacha, Colombia earlier this month. WIMN members were among more than 800 participants from governments, the private...
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Reflections of the 14th GFMD Civil Society Intersectional Rapporteur on Gender
During the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) held in Geneva earlier this year, Vani Saraswathi of Migrant-Rights.org and a member of WIMN's Board of Directors, served as a civil society "Gender Rapporteur", alongside rapporteurs focused on youth and on...
WIMN Members at the Global Forum on Migration & Development – January 2024
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 ...
Civil Society Days of the GFMD – Quito 2020
A more interactive and multi-stakeholder GFMD summit The 12th GFMD -- the Global Forum on Migration and Development -- took place in Quito, Ecuador from 21 – 24 January 2020. That year, for the first time in history, all the GFMD meetings took place in the same...
Preventing Gender Based Violence Against Migrants – Civil Society Days (GFMD, Quito 2020)
"Preventing Gender Based Violence Against Migrants" was an event at Global Forum on Migration and Development 2020. This side event was co-sponsored by WIMN, UN Women, and other entities. This side event explored innovative ways of preventing and responding to the...
WIMN Briefing Documents – Civil Society Days – GFMD, Quito 2020
[Updated] WIMN prepared several briefing papers for the Civil Society Days (CSD) and the Global Forum on Migration & Development (GFMD) in Quito, Ecuador, January 2020. These documents describe the "gender dimension" of various migration issue, and include WIMN's...
Meeting in the Middle: Shaping Public Narratives on Migration, Quito, January 2020
A side event to the Global Forum on Migration and Development 21 January 2020 at 9:00 to 10:30 hrs Panecillo 4 - Centro de Convenciones Metropolitano in Quito With Felipe Gonzalez, UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants. Co-sponsored by Oxfam...
Women’s Caucus of the PGA, Quito, January 2020
Join WIMN and friends for the Women's Caucus of the People's Global Action for Migration, Development & Human Rights (PGA) - to be held on Monday, 20 January, 16:30 - 18:00 hrs in Quito, Ecuador. Click here for more information about this year's PGA. ...
CSD & PGA (Berlin,2017)
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GFMD Rapporteur Makes Recommendations
The Civil Society Days of the Global Forum on Migration and Development closed on 30 June with a day of strategy and recommendations for the Global Compact on Migration. Carolina Gottardo of the Women in Migration Network, the Women Rapporteur, addressed...