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International NGOs and Networks
Changing Together
Organization operated by immigrant women for immigrant women. Canada.
Enlaces América
Enlaces América is an adviser, facilitator, and support center for transnational Latino and Caribbean immigrant organizations committed to building healthy communities both in the United States and in their countries of origin. It also seeks to enable immigrant community leaders to take on leading roles in domestic and international policy advocacy processes in areas such as immigration and international economic development.
European Network Against Racism - ENAR
ENAR is determined to fight racism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, to promote equality of treatment between European Union citizens and third country nationals, and to link local, regional, national initiatives with European Union initiatives
Forced Migration Online - FMO
FMO provides access to a wide variety of online resources dealing with the situation of forced migrants worldwide.
Global Campaign for Ratification of the Convention on Rights of Migrants
This site was set up by the International Steering Committee for the Campaign for Ratification of the Migrants Rights Convention.
Global Migration and Gender Network
The purpose of the Network is to provide a means for practitioners and researchers with an interest in gender and migration to share information and ideas on a regular basis. The network issues a regular newsletter to all network subscribers, incorporating links to relevant documents, news of forthcoming conferences and publications, book reviews and opinion pieces.
Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre - IDMC
Established by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), is an international body monitoring conflict-induced internal displacement worldwide. At the request of the United Nations, the Geneva-based IDMC runs an online database providing comprehensive information and analysis on internal displacement in some 50 countries. Based on its monitoring and data collection activities, the Centre advocates for durable solutions to the plight of the internally displaced in line with international standards.
Migrants Rights International
Migrants Rights International is a membership organization comprised of experts and practitioners in the fields of migration and migrants rights; each bringing specialized knowledge and experience in the promotion of human rights of migrants. Members are affiliated with nationally-focused migrant groups, human rights organizations, trade unions, religious bodies, and legal organizations from each world region.
Migration Policy Group - MPG
MPG is committed to policy development on migration and anti-discrimination, with the aim of generating innovative and effective responses to the challenges and opportunities of migration and diversity.
Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants - PICUM
The PICUM aims at promoting respect for the human rights of undocumented migrants within Europe. They promote respect for the basic social rights such as the right to health care, the right to shelter, the right to education and training, the right to a minimum subsistence, the right to family life, the right to moral and physical integrity, the right to legal aid, the right to organise and the right to fair labour conditions of undocumented migrants.
The Migration Policy Institute (MPI)
Organization dedicated to the study of the movement of people worldwide. EEUU.
This Tuesday
Logs on migration, labor, transnational organizing. The web-presentation should inspire and improve a mutual information exchange and public debates spreading similar initiatives and strategies.
 
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Migrants are commonly seen as both unwanted intruders and powerless victims, but Laura Agustin own ideas work to break down this duality and think about power in different ways. Laura Agustín writes as a lifelong migrant and sometime worker in both nongovernmental and academic projects about sex, travel and work.
AMC operates as a monitoring, research, information, publishing, training, support and action center dedicated to the promotion of the human rights and empowerment of migrant workers and their families in Asia.

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Migration - Thu Aug 28 2008
Updates on undocumented migrants in Europe
The last edition of PICUM's newsletter, released August 2008, focuses on news items and policy developments concerning the basic social rights of undocumented migrants in Europe. (PDF format).
Source: Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants

Migration /Gender - Tue Aug 19 2008
Border thinking on migration, culture, economy and sex
Migrants are commonly seen as both unwanted intruders and powerless victims, but Laura Agustín own ideas work to break down this duality and think about power in different ways.
Source: Laura Agustín

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