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Urgent Reminder and more: Endorse Feminist Manifesto Towards IMRF
May 4, 2026 Towards the IMRF: A Feminist Manifesto for Structural Transformation in Migration Governance Friends and colleagues, This is an urgent reminder to provide your organizational endorsement if you have not already done so. The Manifesto will be shared with...
Call to Endorse Feminist Migration Manifesto towards IMRF 2026
Please act now to add your organization’s endorsement to Feminist Manifesto for Structural Transformation in Migration Governance. On the eve of the 2026 International Migration Review Forum (IMRF) (May 5 - 8 at the UN in New York, this is a high-stakes moment for...
For migrant workers, sheltering in place is as pointless as social distancing
A new Op-ed from MRRORS - the Migrant Rights Research Open Repository - a member of WIMN 14 April 2026 Every new crisis seems to strengthen the chokehold of the Kafala system on labour migration On 28 February 2026, in the middle of Ramadan, even as negotiations...
Int’l Migrants Day 2025: Decent Work, Dignity, and Regularization Now
Thirty-five years ago today, the United Nations adopted the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (MWC) , recognizing migration’s aspiration for better futures, more dignified lives, and basic...
A year of significant challenges renews our commitment, purpose
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...
WIMN’s Year-End Report 2025
Download a PDF of this report (in English)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...
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,...