This year’s High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) is of particular importance for migration governance actors, as SDG 10, which includes a direct reference to migration under target 10.7 (Facilitate orderly, safe, regular and responsible migration and mobility of people, including through the implementation of planned and well-managed migration policies), is reviewed. In the weeks leading Read more…
During the course of the past year, the International Council of Voluntary Agencies (ICVA), the Civil Society Action Committee (AC) and the International Migrants Bill of Rights (IMBR) Program at Cornell University have co-organised a learning program on International Migration Law (IML) for NGO staff working on migration, which focused on topics and issues Read more…
Join us on Tuesday, 29 June, for a follow-up discussion to reflect upon the action points raised during the last Climate Change and Migration Webinar. Kayly Ober will lead a 90-minute civil society conversation giving the opportunity to participants to intervene and share their insights, especially on regional and sub-regional perspectives.
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…