Will a Global Compact on Migration Lead to Lasting Change?
GCM Blog Post on OSF Voices Blog By now, the images are familiar: dozens—sometimes hundreds—of people crowded into unseaworthy boats, refugee camps the size of small cities, a child’s dead body washed up on the shore. The very presence of these migrants at the borders of powerful states forces governments to…
GCM Endorses Action Committee Response & Scorecard for 9/19 Summit
In preparation for the upcoming UN High Level Summit on Large Movements of Refugees and Migrants, the civil society Action Committee—made up of migrants’ rights and refugee rights CSOs—has released a response and scorecard for the UN High Level Summit’s New York Declaration. The response outlines 7 actions that states…
GCM Launches MICIC Campaign
The Global Coalition on Migration (GCM), along with the Migration and Development Civil Society Network (MADE), launched a year-long campaign to co-organize a series of regional civil society consultations on the MICIC (Migrants in Countries in Crisis) Initiative. GCM and MADE will organize a series of independent, parallel, civil society…
GCM Participation at COP20 — Lima, Peru
From December 6-8, GCM participated in the People’s Summit on Climate Change and the Rights of Nature Tribunal, parallel events to COP20, in Lima, Peru. GCM participated as part of the Climate Space, a loose configuration of grassroots organizations globally that have been engaging in advocacy around the COPs for…
GCM Statement: End the Immigration Detention of Children
GCM Statement on the International Day of Action to End the Immigration Detention of Children November 20th, 2014 As government delegations gather at the United Nations in New York to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, migrants’ rights advocates, civil society organizations, and…