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Decent Work at the Nexus Between Climate Change and Migration
The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), a WIMN member, has recently published a new policy brief that explores the intersection of climate change and migration, and implications for labor. Read and download the report (available in Arabic and English) From...
IDWF: Domestic Workers and the Care Economy
The International Domestic Workers federation, a WIMN member, has produced this position paper in preparation for the General Discussion on Decent Work and the Care Economy at the 112th International Labour Conference in Geneva in early June 2024. Domestic...
WIMN Calls for an Immediate, Permanent Ceasefire in Gaza and an End to Occupation
A Statement from the Women in Migration Network (In Arabic, English, French and Spanish. See links below) The Women in Migration Network (WIMN) calls for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza; cessation of military funding to Israel; and an end to the...
WIMN’s LIGA Program — Leadership in Global Advocacy
In June WIMN launched its new pilot program, Leadership in Global Advocacy or “LIGA” to help strengthen grassroots voices in international migrant rights advocacy. The program aims to create a strong, participatory, collective process that enhances...
The transformative power of intersectionality – Robert Bosch-Stiftung
Robert Bosch Stiftung has just published a new e-booklet -- The Transformative Power of Intersectionality. Women in Migration Network was one of eleven organizations participating a Bosch foundation program exploring intersectionality. The e-booklet -- available in...
Migration, Displacement & Human Rights in West Asia and Asia Pacific regions: the Climate Crisis and its Impact on Women’s Livelihoods
Earlier this year WIMN hosted the virtual webinar, Migration, Displacement & Human Rights in West Asia and Asia Pacific regions: the Climate Crisis and its Impact on Women’s Livelihoods. The webinar complemented a similar WIMN event held last year during the...
Anti-Discrimination and COVID-19 Advocacy Tool
This publication, a collaboration of the Gender and Anti-racism workstreams of the UN Network on Migration, looks at discrimination on grounds related to race and gender and how these shape the impact of COVID-19 on migrants, including their access to relief and...
International Women’s Day Rally 2023
On March 8, 2023 -- 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...
Catherine Tactaquin: Better Policy Empowering Women
Catherine Tactaquin, Executive Director of the US National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights and a member of the Women in Migration Network steering committee is featured in an interview by Open Democracy in preparation for International Women's Day, How can...
Spanish Court On Exclusion of Migrants From Health Services
PRESS RELEASE The Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR), Amnesty International, Médicos del Mundo, Red Acoge, REDER and semFYC reiterate that the Royal Decree 16/2012 contravenes international human rights norms and standards, and is regressive with...
Women Risk Sexual Violence En Route to U.S.
Investigation by Maria Zamudio | Photos by Jack Jones TENOSIQUE, Mexico — For five agonizing days, they’ve waited, collected in a shelter near the railroad tracks, near their path from a life they no longer can endure. It’s Friday evening just before sunset when...
Initial Outcomes for UNGA on Refugees and Migrants
Initial Elements for the Outcome Document to the United Nations General Assembly Summit for Large Movements of Refugees and Migrants (Sept. 19) The Women in Migration Network (WIMN) welcomes the initiative of the UN Secretary General, the President of the General...
Progress for Domestic Workers, But More Needed
In the five years since the International Labour Organization adopted Convention 189 on Domestic Workers, governments in nearly 50 countries have updated their legislation to provide better employment protection for domestic workers, and 22 countries have already...
PICUM Roundtable: Sexual and Reproductive Health
By Tara Ohl, PICUM Trainee and Alyna Smith, PICUM Advocacy Officer Among the obstacles undocumented migrants face in realising their fundamental rights are the multiple barriers to access health care, including sexual and reproductive health services. Most EU member...
World Health Day
BRUSSELS, 7 April 2016 - On the occasion of World Health Day, the Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM) urges governments to change legislation and practices to ensure access to sexual and reproductive health services for all,...