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Reflections on UNMN Listening Sessions on Migration, Covid-19 & Gender
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...
WIMN Launches Global Mapping Project on Gender & Migration
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 --...
Addressing the Impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Women Migrant Workers (UN Women)
UN Women has published a new Guidance Note, Addressing the Impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Women Migrant Workers: “Women migrant workers around the world are on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic. They work in essential but low-paid and vulnerable jobs, as...
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...
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...
The impact of migration on migrant women and girls: a gender perspective: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
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...
The Marrakech Women’s Rights Manifesto
From a caravan of families crossing Mexico to raids in northern Morocco; from new fences being constructed in Europe to the exclusion of refugees in Australia; from people displaced by climate-related weather to those fleeing violence—migrants and refugees are in the...
Global Compact for Migration: A Gender Perspective
Reflections on the Global Compact for Migration A Joint Statement Published by Members of the Expert Working Group for Addressing Women’s Human Rights in the Global Compact for Migration August 2018 The Expert Working Group for addressing women’s human rights in the...
WIMN Launches Issue Briefs for GFMD
The tenth edition of the Global Forum on Migration & Development is being held from 28-30 June 2017 in Berlin, Germany. The Civil Society Days take place from 29 June to July 1, to be followed by the People's Global Action on Migration, Development and Human...