Since the adoption of the Global Compact for Migration (GCM) in 2018, the GCM has served as a central instrument for civil society to advocate for safe and regular migration and to collaborate with governments at the national and local levels for its implementation. With the International Migration Review Forum Read more
To kick off December, the AC Secretariat joined members and friends in Madrid, Spain, for the international event ‘The Global Compact for Migration: Critical Perspectives on Migration Policies from European Civil Society’, hosted by the Spanish Network for Monitoring the Global Compact on Migration. This important event brought together voices Read more
On Saturday, 21st September, the Civil Society Action Committee hosted an official side event on the margins of the recent Summit of the Future at the Church Centre of the United Nations in New York City. The event, “Migration for the Future: Multi-stakeholder Perspectives on the Future of Human Mobility, International Cooperation, and Sustainable Development,” Read more
The Civil Society Action Committee condemns the violent, racist, xenophobic and Islamophobic riots and attacks that have endangered minority and marginalised communities across the United Kingdom over the past weeks. Join us in denouncing the continued legitimisation of xenophobic narratives by the media and government, including pandering to and platforming Read more
On the 21 – 22 May 2024, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) held its first 2024 session of the International Dialogue on Migration (IDM), centred this year on ‘Facilitating Regular Pathways to a better future: Harnessing the power of migration’. Attempting to bring together a wide range of stakeholders, Read more
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
Global civil society has responded with both relief and disappointment to UN Member States’ consensus approval of the formal outcome of the first International Migration Review Forum (IMRF) on 17–20 May that assessed implementation of the Global Compact for Migration.