December 11, 2025 For Women in Migration Network (WIMN), this has been a year of significant change and profound growth. It concludes with a growing sense of power, clarity, and renewed purpose for the organization amid shifting global landscapes and evolving...
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WIMN’s Year-End Report 2025
As Women in Migration Network (WIMN) concludes 2025, we do so with power, clarity, and renewed purpose. This has been a year of significant change and profound growth–organizationally, politically, and collectively. Amid shifting global landscapes and evolving...
Climate related migration: it is all about political choices
An Op-Ed published in Migrant Women's Press November 27, 2025 Climate related migration: it is all about political choices As climate impacts intensify, states are choosing profit over protection, leaving marginalised communities, especially women, to carry the...
Position Announcement: WIMN Operations Manager
POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT 25 November 2025 Operations Manager Consultant (Part-Time) WIMN is looking for a dynamic part-time consultant, to fulfill the duties of an operations manager. The candidate must be passionate about organizational development, have demonstrated...
Join WIMN for this year’s 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence
Join WIMN in taking part in this year’s 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence campaign. The global theme, “UNiTE to End Digital Violence Against All Women and Girls,” spotlights the rise of abuse and exploitation in the expansion of the digital...
Gendered Impacts of Externalization
Safeguarding the Rights of Migrant Women, Girls, and Gender-Diverse Persons New York, NY — 22 October 2025 On the sidelines of the UN General Assembly’s 80th Session, the Women in Migration Network (WIMN), UN Women, and the UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of...
WIMN’s Call to Action on the International Day of Care and Support
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...
WIMN, members push for rights-based, gender-responsive migration policies at GFMD
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...
Voices from the Frontlines: Africa — Kenyan women resist displacement
In May 2025, WIMN’s fourth and final dialogue focused on the Mathare settlement in Nairobi, where women have experienced displacement and the loss of livelihoods. They have led the resistance to the effects of climate change, including devastating floods. The dialogue...
Unpacking the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM)
This new brochure provides an overview of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM), which was adopted by UN members in December 2018. It is available in English, French and Spanish. Click on the images below to read and download. Read the...
A Feminist Trade Agenda
Women in Migration Network is a member of the Steering Group of the Gender and Trade Coalition and contributed to this new document, A Feminist Trade Agenda. "This agenda is based on the policy proposals put forward in the ‘explainer’ series by Regions Refocus,...
Open Letter to the UN Network on Migration Responding to Recent Statement on Remittances
Roula Seghaier, WIMN International Coordinator, recently sent this "Open Letter" to the UN Network on Migration (UNNM) on behalf of WIMN. The letter addresses a recent UNNM statement, “Investing in Impact: The Power of Remittances for the SDGs”. She shared in a cover...
Summary Report from the Feminist Forum on Migration and Displacement
The Feminist Forum on Migration and Displacement (FFMD) concluded on December 1, 2024 following two days of engaging sharing, discussion and strategizing in Bangkok, Thailand. Over 100 participants contributed their time, energy, experiences and wisdom to a process...
Allegations of organ trade and illegal harvesting are rife as GCC and African states fail to conduct autopsies
April 16, 2025 -- In a new article published in Migrant-Rights.org, Vani Saraswathi puts a spotlight on reports of "organ trade" and illegal harvesting. Interviews and cases reveal a dangerous and sometimes fatal practice: "Kenyan migrants are returning from Saudi...
A Report from CSW69: WIMN calls for Migration Justice & Rights for all!
WIMN delegates joined thousands of women’s rights advocates from around the world for the 69th UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW69) in New York City March 10-21. The occasion also marked the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA), approved...
Beyond Protection Why Migration Justice for Women is a Fundamental Human Right
Migrant Women Press has just published an op ed by Roula Seghaier, author of WIMN's brief for Beijing+30, Women in Migration Still Seek Inclusion in the Equity & Equality Agenda. Migrant Women Press (March 26, 2025): "As the world marks 30 years since the Beijing...
Women in Migration Network Launches Report on Migration & Gender Equality Ahead of Beijing+30 Review
[Download a PDF of the this Press Release here] 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...
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...
Filipino fisherfolk facing displacement & strategies of resistance
Land reclamation projects in Manila Bay: Filipino fisherfolk facing displacement & strategies of resistanceJoin us on Monday, 27 January, 13:00 - 14:30 UTC Please register to receive Zoom link!WIMN's third cross-sectoral dialogue will get a closer look at...
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 partners. We wish you all much happiness and health in 2025 and beyond and share our gratitude for your support and...