On March 8th - 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 migration...
NOTE: The United Nations Webcast services will provide live streaming coverage of the International Migration Review Forum in all UN official languages, through the UN Web TV website at: http://webtv.un.org As the UN's International Migration Review Forum concludes on...
WIMN members Carol Barton, WIMN's co-convenor, and Neha Misra of Solidarity Center recently spoke with Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) about the expectations towards the International Migration Review Forum (IMRF), the first review of the UN's Global Compact for Safe,...
On International Women’s Day 2022, the Women in Migration Network (WIMN) salutes the power, creativity and organizing capacity of women around the world and calls for full and equal rights for women in all their diversity. This year we celebrate hard won gains for...
During this "Human Rights Week", the Women in Migration Network is releasing a series of videos and graphics calling attention to the urgency to ensure human rights protections for women in migration. For 9 days - from International Human Rights Day (December 10)...
As COP26 concludes in Glasgow, Scotland, the Women in Migration Network calls on governments to undertake bold, inclusive action to tackle the climate crisis, and reaffirms the need for an intersectional strategy encompassing migrant, women and human rights-centered...
The Women in Migration Network is proud to join partners in the new "Feminists for a People's Vaccine" campaign, to bring feminist perspectives to the debate and advocacy for equitable access to medicines and vaccines. Check out the campaign website at...
Members of WIMN shared their perspectives on July 21 during the High Level Launch of the Policies and Practice: A Guide to Gender-Responsive Implementation of the Global Compact for Migration. The virtual event was hosted by UN Women and UN Network on Migration. The...
We call for a new social compact that guarantees social protection, labour rights and women’s human rights for all women in migration Download a PDF of this statement here On this International Women’s Day, the Women in Migration Network (WIMN) once more calls on...
On June 11, Women in Migration Network helped to convene, along with UN Women, the United Nations Network on Migration (UNMN) "listening sessions" on the impact of Covid-19 on migration, through a gender lens - part of a series exploring "mobility in the time of...
Women in Migration Network (WIMN) is partnering with Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) to map organizations and experts addressing the intersection of gender and migration through research, advocacy and mobilization. At this critical time for migration --...
From Crisis to a New Social Compact: An inclusive, intersectional feminist approach is the only way out of the COVID Crisis Download a PDF of the Statement in English Download PDF in Spanish: De la crisis hacia un nuevo convenio social: Un enfoque...
December 18, 2019 On International Migrants Day the Women in Migration Network (WIMN) affirms the bold agency of migrant women and all women in migration. Today we face a harsh global reality. Xenophobia, the criminalization of migration, development...
The vicious and calculated escalation of abuses and deaths of children at the U.S. border over the last months have horrified millions across the globe. We have collectively witnessed an unprecedented scale of separation of children from their families; mass...
Summary: In the present report, the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants provides an account of the activities undertaken during the reporting period. He also provides a thematic study on the impact of migration on migrant women and girls, from a gender...
Download a PDF of the statement. Overcoming Barriers, Seeking Solidarity to Claim Rights for All On International Women’s Day, the Women in Migration Network (WIMN) joins millions of women and girls around the world in the ongoing struggle for gender equality and...
Reflections on the Global Compact for Migration Joint Statement Published by Members of the Expert Working Group for Addressing Women’s Human Rights in the Global Compact for Migration The Expert Working Group for addressing women’s human rights in the global...
WIMN Official Statement on Final GCM (English) WIMN Official Statement on Final GCM (Spanish) Women in Migration Network Statement On Conclusion of Negotiations On the UN Global Compact For Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration Friday, July 13, 2018 The Women in...
Massive Facebook Fundraiser Will Cover Bonds For Families Separated At Border, Group Says RAICES is calling for President Trump’s full cooperation By: Sara Boboltz The staggering $20 million raised via Facebook to support immigrant families separated at...
Trump's controversial pick for top UN migration job voted down in Geneva BY: Zachary Cohen and Elise Labott Washington (CNN)--The UN migration agency on Friday voted down Ken Isaacs, the Trump administration's candidate to lead the International Organization for...