International Migration Review Forum (IMRF) 2022
- WIMN Responds to Adoption of UN International Migration Review Forum Progress Declaration (May 20, 2022)
- Civil Society: IMRF Pledge (May 19, 2022)
- Statement on UN IMRF Progress Declaration (May 16, 2022)
- IMRF Pledge (May 19, 2022)
- The Spotlight Report on Global Migration (SRGM) Published by the Global Coalition on Migration for the IMRF. All 7 articles are by WIMN members and/or allies with a gender perspective.
- IMRF Puts Global Spotlight on Migration, FES interview
Global Forum on Migration and Development/Civil Society Days/PGA – Quito 2020
WIMN Briefing Documents
- Provide Safe Access to Services for ALL Migrants
- End Criminalization of Migrants & Those Who Assist Them
- Ensure Rights for All in Mixed Migration Flows
- Defend the Rights of all Migrant Workers
Adoption of Global Compact for Migration, Marrakech 2018:
Global Compact for Migration Negotiations, 2017-2018
- Key Considerations for the Global Compact
- WIMN Issue Briefs for the Global Compact (2017)
Partner Statements and Resources
- Anti-Discrimination and COVID-19 Advocacy Tool, April 2022, UN Network on Migration Gender and Race Workstreams. WIMN provided substantial inputs to this project.
- Policies and Practices Guide (UN Women)
- Gender & Migration Hub (Wilfred Laurier University Migration Centre)
- Migration Network Hub (UN Network on Migration)
- Gender Equality Forum 2020: UN Women and the governments of France and Mexico hosted a Gender Equality Forum at the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Platform for action. This Forum took place both in person (Mexico City, Paris) and virtually.
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- Women Radically Transforming a World in Crisis: A framework for Beijing+25 shaped at a strategy meeting of feminist activists Mexico City, 22-24 August 2019. 29 September 2019
- WIMN worked with a coalition of feminist groups doing advocacy in different UN Spaces to organize a virtual parallel event focused on feminist UN advocacy: Feminists Want System Change: Feminist Coalitions at the UN. This informal coalition, hosted by the Women’s Major Group, continues to connect on areas of interest.
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WIMN Statements
- International Women’s Day 2022: Responding to Intersecting Global Crises: Women in Migration Mobilize for Transformative, Rights-based Policies
- WIMN calls for human mobility, migrant women’s human rights in climate deliberations and action plans, November, 2021
- International Women’s Day 2021
- From Crisis to a New Social Compact: WIMN statement on COVID, June 2020
- Statement on VAW, March 8
Policy spaces where WIMN has been active
- UN High Level Dialogues on Migration
- Global Forum on Migration & Development (GFMD), including International Steering Committee for GFMD-Civil Society Days
- General Assembly high-level meeting on addressing large movements of refugees and migrants 2016
- UN Summit for Refugees and Migrants 2016
- Consultations and negotiations for the UN Global Compact for Migration (2017-2018)
- Intergovernmental Conference on the Global Compact for Migration, Marrakech 2018
- UN Commission on the Status of Women
- WIMN members participate in UN Women’s Expert Working Group for Addressing Women’s Human Rights in the Global Compact for Migration.
- Gender Workstream of the UN Network on Migration
- WIMN members are active in the UN Network on Migration’s Working Groups, including those on regular pathways, labor, climate, access to services.
- UN Global Compact for Migration Regional Reviews, 2020 – 2021
- UN International Migration Review Forum, New York, May 2022
- WIMN collaborates with several Special Rapporteurs in their work related to gender and migration