NNIRR Current Campaigns and Projects:

BRIDGE (Building a Race and Immigration Dialogue in the Global Era) and the Immigrant Rights Training Institute
The BRIDGE Project supports the work of community organizers and activists in using popular education and community dialogue to discuss and tackle critical issues related to immigrant and refugee rights. Building on the work of our new and exciting BRIDGE curriculum, which is based on two years of community input and testing, the BRIDGE Project provides opportunities for training, leadership development, and community education.

BRIDGE Project staff also organizes national, regional, and local trainings for immigrant and refugee community organizations and their allies. Read more about BRIDGE.

Migrant Rights are Human Rights Campaign:
December 18: International Migrants Day

This campaign works towards increased grassroots participation, leadership, and visibility around migrants rights issues in international fora, especially in the intersection of global trade and migration policy. The National Network has long supported the global campaign to bring into force the UN Convention on the Protection of the Rights of Migrant Workers and Their Families. Building off of our work at the 2001 UN World Conference Against Racism and Xenophobia (Durban, South Africa), NNIRR continues to work with a global network of migrat rights organizations. As a part of the campaign this year, we are helping to initiate commemorative activities on December 18, the UN-recognized International Day of Solidarity with Migrants.

• Immigration raids
• Police collaboration with immigration enforcement
• Abuses by immigration police or other law enforcement agents
• BICE and other DHS activity in workplaces, neighborhoods, and public spaces

Immigrant Civic Participation and Election 2004

NNIRR participated in the exciting Mobilize the Immigrant Vote campaign to raise the voices of immigrant voters in the 2004 elections. Visit NNIRR's special election 2004 website for more information and analysis, including resources on civic participation; analysis on presidential candidates; conservative forces around immigration; and more.

National Strategy-Building for Legalization and Immigration Reform

While the events of September 11 have dramatically altered the political landscape for positive immigration reform in the foreseeable future, key issues remain: how to improve human and civil rights protections for all immigrants, regardless of immigration status. In the coming months, the National Network will continue to bring together organizers and other advocates within the immigrant rights community to re-strategize on the ways in which the rights of immigrants can be protected and elevated in a period dominated by the politics of national security and international hostilities, xenophobia, and restrictions on civil liberties.
Read more about the Legalization campaign here.

September 11 initiative

The National Network has helped coordinate a multi-level response among diverse immigrant rights groups following the terrorist attacks in the U.S. on September 11. We will continue to help provide information and analysis, and we are developing tools for education and dialogue to better understand the international context of recent events, and to respond in our communities and in the media to hate crimes and anti-immigrant activity.

Access the NNIRR Response and Resources for post-September 11 organizing here.

Initiatives Related to Immigrant Women

Immigrant women are among the most vulnerable to exploitation, abuse, and human rights violations in the U.S. In response, NNIRR has:

• Organized an immigrant women's delegation for the "Beijing +5 Women 2000" review of progress for women's rights.
• Released Hands That Shape the World, a report detailing the challenges immigrant women have faced since the 1995 conference on women.

Read the News Release About the Immigrant Women's Delegation Executive Summary of the Report on Immigrant Women.

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