UN Member States are in the final stages in negotiating the Ministerial Declaration to be adopted for the 2021 High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF). Unfortunately, migrants and migration have been systematically left out of or minimized in the Ministerial Declaration, despite SDG 10 (including Target 10.7 on migration) being reviewed.Read the Declaration’s latest draft (as of 15 June 2021) here. What can Read more
The first International Migration Review Forum (IMRF) is expected to take place at the UN in New York next June-July 2022. It will be an important global migration governance event, where Member States and other stakeholders will assess progress made on the implementation of Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM). To prepare for our collective self-organizing towards the IMRF, the Civil Society Action Committee Read more
Our second round of discussions aimed at strategizing around civil society’s advocacy priorities continues! Join us next Tuesday, 22 June, for a follow-up discussion to reflect upon the action points raised during the last Regular Pathways and Irregular Migration Webinar. Oscar A. Chacón will lead a 90-minute civil society conversation giving the opportunity to participants to intervene Read more
We have reached the halfway point of this second round of discussions aimed at strategizing around civil society’s advocacy priorities! Our next meeting will take place Tuesday, 15 June, and it will be a follow-up discussion to reflect upon the action points raised during the last Detention and Return’s webinar.John K. Bingham will lead Read more
The second round of the People’s Migration Challenge’s global civil society Open Conversations is off to a good start after this week’s participatory discussion! Join us next Tuesday, 8 June, for a follow-up discussion to reflect upon the action points raised during the last Race and Ethnicity in Migration’s webinar. Paddy Siyanga Knudsen will guide Read more
The second round of the People’s Migration Challenge’s global civil society conversations begins next week, on Tuesday, June 1st! We will reconvene for follow-up discussions to reflect upon the action points raised during this first series of webinars. A moderator will guide these 90-minute civil society conversations giving the opportunity to participants to intervene and share their Read more
Our Civil Society Priorities Webinar Series reached its turning point! The last (for now!) conversation on “Climate Change and Migration” took place Tuesday 18 May. Then, as of early June, we will reconvene for follow-up discussions to reflect upon the action points raised during this first round of webinars and to keep mobilizing civil society around the world! Climate Change and Read more
Our Civil Society Priorities Webinar Series continued with a conversation on “Detention and Return“, the fourth episode of these global convenings that cover key themes and mobilize civil society around the world! Detention and ReturnTuesday, 11 May 2021 at 3PM CEST.
After a short break, we were back with the third webinar of our series of five global convenings that cover key themes and mobilize civil society around the world. Regular Pathways and Irregular MigrationTuesday, 4 May 2021 at 3PM CEST The aim of this webinar is to understand how policies and practices on irregular migration and regular pathways have evolved in Read more
After the great start of our first webinar, was held the second discussion of our series of five global webinars, that cover key themes and mobilize civil society around the world. The webinar took the form of a global civil society discussion on race, ethnicity and discrimination in the context of migration, proposing both a global outlook and a closer look at some regional and national specificities. Race and Ethnicity in MigrationTuesday, 20 April 2021 Read more