Reflections on UNMN Listening Sessions on Migration, Covid-19 & Gender

Jun 20, 2020 | Feminist Organizing + Labor Rights, GCM, Resources, Theme: Policy Advocacy, Theme: Women's Voices, Throughline: Labor Rights, UN Migration Network

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...

WIMN Launches Global Mapping Project on Gender & Migration

Jun 5, 2020 | Resources, Theme: Women's Voices

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 —...

Rohingya Women Fleeing Violence Sold Into Marriage

Aug 5, 2015 | Latest

By Chris Buckley and Ellen Barry GELUGOR, Malaysia — The young woman had been penned in a camp in the sweltering jungle of southern Thailand for two months when she was offered a deal. She fled Myanmar this year hoping to reach safety in Malaysia, after anti-Muslim...

Women in Calais camps: Focus on Surviving

Aug 4, 2015 | Latest

With the one women’s centre full, female migrants must take their chances in the main camp, often with children in tow and where there is no security By Emma Graham-Harrison in Calais Hannah is 24, five months pregnant and can’t remember the last time she had a...

The Missing Women of the Mediterranean Crisis

Jul 27, 2015 | Latest

By Lauren Wolfe Dirty white gates fronted the detention center on the Italian island of Lampedusa, a tiny speck between Sicily and Tunisia, where 71 women were being held. Beyond the bars, I could just make out laundry hanging from the building in which they were...