The second Regional Migration Review Forum (RMRF) for the implementation of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration (GCM), within the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) region, took place on 11 March 2024 in Geneva.
In view of the upcoming 2024 Regional Migration Review Forums (RMRFs) and 2026 IMRF, the AC is pleased to announce the publication of our IMRF 2022 Assessment Paper, a key document outlining collective takeaways and unpacking barriers to civil society engagement. The central part of this paper revolves around eleven commitments and action points that will guide the AC’s advocacy to prompt receptive and more inclusive measures by UN Member States, international organisations, and other stakeholders.
25 June 1958 – 26 July 2022
John K. Bingham, lawyer and migrant, served as Head of Policy of ICMC in Geneva from 2005 to 2018. Before joining ICMC in 2005, John worked for eight years for Catholic Charities in New York, where he was director of the departments of Immigrant and Refugee Services and later Capital Projects and Law. He served as Chair of the Board of the New York Immigration Coalition, and on the migration advisory group of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops. Prior to that, he spent eight years teaching human rights and criminal justice in a refugee camp of 240,000 Cambodians in Thailand, and later business law at the university in Phnom Penh, where he co-authored two books.
The CSPD’s aim was to enable civil society engaging in the IMRF to be fully and adequately prepared to enter the deliberations in a unified and organised manner. It represented the culmination of a year-long process of civil society preparatory sessions, advocacy dialogues, and consultations. In addition to identifying gaps in GCM Read more…
The Civil Society Action Committee will culminate its year-long preparatory process to the IMRF with a self-organized, open Civil Society Preparatory Day that will take place on Sunday, 15 May 2022. This preparatory meeting, open to all civil society, aims to share and consolidate the key civil society joint inputs and points of Read more…
Do you want to know how civil society can engage in the 2022 International Migration Review Forum? Click here to see an overview of the main opportunities for civil society engagement in the IMRF.
The first International Migration Review Forum (IMRF) will be held from 10 – 13 May 2022 to review the implementation of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM). Civil Society Participation There are 2 tracks for non-State stakeholders to be eligible to participate in the IMRF: 1. Read more…
Following last year’s around-the-clock celebrations, this year we offer you an equally rich program of online events from around the world that kick-off this Friday, 17 December 2021, from 10 AM to 5.30 PM CET, to commemorate and celebrate International Migrants Day. Have a look at the program agenda:
As part of the Civil Society Action Committee’s preparation and strategy towards the International Migration Review Forum (IMRF) in May 2022, the AC’s member and observer organizations have collectively developed and drafted a joint position paper on the IMRF. The paper is centred around 12 key priorities we identify as critical and urgent themes to make progress on the Read more…
In light of current tragic events and reports highlighting State violence against refugees and migrants, the NGO Committee on Migration, member and co-convener of the Civil Society Action Committee, released a statement calling on States to make better choices, to turn to solutions that are practical and humane, encouraging compliance with international law and Read more…