International Migrant Rights & Global Justice
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Migration is a global phenomenon, and NNIRR emphasizes the need for international efforts and cooperation to effectively respond to the broader challenges around immigration and address "root causes."
Since the mid 1990's, NNIRR has actively worked to build relationships and strengthen networks between migrant communities and migrants rights movements around the world. In 1994, NNIRR participated as a founding member of the global network now known as Migrants Rights International.
NNIRR also monitors and disseminates information around international policy developments, and engages in direct international policy advocacy.
Current initiatives include:
- Trade - Managed Migration - Repression: Reporting and advocacy against Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) and "Managed Migration" programs related to the growing criminalization and exploitation of migrant labor through International Trade, Managed Migration and Repressive Immigration Enforcement Policies. Read the NNIRR Report: Excluded & Exploited. Download the accompanying Excluded & Exploited Presentation.
- International Advocacy: Monitoring of, and advocacy through inter-governmental bodies such as the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD), the UN Human Rights Council (HRC), the World Trade Organization (WTO), the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and other UN and inter-governmental agencies. NNIRR has also co-organized the People's Global Action on Migration, Development & Human Rights (PGA) as a grassroots people's response to governmental summits on migration.
- Climate Change and Migration: Analysis of the impacts of climate change, and advocacy for real policy solutions, from a migrants rights perspective. New paper: Environmental Degradation, Climate Change & Migrants Rights
- International Networking: Building partnerships and alliances with other regions around the world, for collaborative international advocacy and action, especially through the Migrants Rights International (MRI) network.
- International Migrants Day: NNIRR has promoted and coordinated advocacy for International Migrants Day, December 18, since its inception in 2000. Read our call to celebrate International Migrants Day in 2011 here. Read our 2011 International Migrants Day press release here. See our subsection here for background information, downloadable material and links to other resources.
