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No Borders to Equality: Global Mapping of Organizations Working on Gender and Migration
March 2, 2021
Rising inequalities around the world, now exacerbated by the global coronavirus pandemic, heighten the need for strong, independent civil society–driven efforts to ensure rights-based and gender-responsive national and regional migration policies. To begin to address this challenge, the Women in Migration Network (WIMN) partnered with the Friedrich-Ebert- Stiftung (FES) to globally map organizations addressing the […]...
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Addressing the Impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Women Migrant Workers (UN Women)
April 24, 2020
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 health and care workers, nurses, cleaners and laundry workers, placing them at […]...
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WIMN Briefing Documents – Civil Society Days – GFMD, Quito 2020
January 17, 2020
WIMN has prepared documents on several themes under discussion during the Civil Society Days (CSD) and the Global Forum on Migration & Development (GFMD) in Quito, Ecuador, January 2020. These briefing papers describe the migration issue, the “gender dimension” of each issue, WIMN’s recommendations, and the international policies that are relevant to each of the […]...
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The Marrakech Women’s Rights Manifesto
November 29, 2018
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 news, and half of them are women who face particular challenges. We have an […]...
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WIMN Launches Issue Briefs for GFMD
June 28, 2017
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 Rights (PGA). The Women in Migration Network has a […]...
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International Women’s Day 2017
March 8, 2017
On International Women’s Day 2017, the Women in Migration Network (WIMN) has released the statement, “For Mobilization and Resistance to Claim the Human Rights of Women in Migration.” WIMN states, “On this International Women’s Day, the Women in Migration Network (WIMN) affirms that human rights are extended to all migrants and refugees, regardless of citizenship […]...
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Catherine Tactaquin: Better Policy Empowering Women
March 7, 2017
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 better policy empower women on the move? Women experience migration differently than […]...
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Points on Gender & Migration for GCM
February 15, 2017
Women in Migration Network Contribution to the Fifteenth Coordination Meeting on International Migration, UNHQ, New York, 16-17 February, 2017 These points are a contribution to preparations for the UN Global Compact on Migration, to be negotiated by member states by 2018, with broad multi-stakeholder input. English: WIMNone-pagerFebruary2017onGlobalCompact Spanish, French versions pending...
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WIMN Civil Society Days 2016 Recommendations
December 8, 2016
The Women in Migration Network has developed a set of recommendations for each of the thematic areas of the Civil Society Days/ Global Forum on Migration and Development 2016. These provide resources for civil society deliberations during the CSD/GFMD and beyond, and accompany the Women’s Bridging Document of the Civil Society Days. See Recommendations below. […]...
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Points on Gender & Migration for GCM
December 8, 2016
Gathered in Dhaka, Bangladesh for the Civil Society Days of the Global Forum on Migration and Development (8-10 December 2016), the Women in Migration Network (WIMN) launched a set of points for discussion towards a strong gender and rights-based Global Compact on Migration. Key Gender & Migration Points Towards the Global Compact on Migration was shared with […]...
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