On 2 June 2026, representatives of the Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd at the United nations, Kimberly Happich Moloche and Charlotte Vogel, led an education session for Catholic Religious NGOs at the United Nations focusing on mission visits. This training provided step-by-step guidance on how to prepare for and engage Read More
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CSW 70 Parallel Event: Crossing Borders, Claiming Rights
The NGO Committee on Migration is co-sponsoring a virtual CSW70 parallel event, “Crossing Borders, Claiming Rights: Gender-Responsive Approaches to Migration,” in collaboration with the Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd, with the support of Misean Cara. This event will highlight global and regional work combating gender inequality in migration. Featuring representatives Read More
Author Showcase and Book Launch “Seeking Home”
We are pleased to celebrate the release of a new memoir by Eva Richter, one of the co-founders of the NGO Committee on Migration, titled Seeking Home: A World War II Refugee Childhood in War-Torn China. Eva grew up as a refugee from Nazi Germany in Tianjin, China, where she lived through the turbulent years leading into the Read More
Mission Visit Training
Join the NGO Committee on Migration for a capacity-building webinar on how to prepare, participate, and follow up to mission visits (meetings with representatives from Member States’ Permanent Missions to the United Nations). Read More
Podcast: Why Migration Matters to Beijing+30
If you are curious to learn more about the CSW theme of Beijing+30, we highly recommend viewing the first episode of the conversation series “Gender Justice Beyond Borders” hosted by the Center for Migration, Gender, and Justice. The first episode features Cecilie Kern, Chair of the NGO Committee on Migration, “Why Migration Matters to Beijing+30.” Read More
Statement to the 63rd Session of the Commission for Social Development
On 12 February, Cecilie Kern, Chair of the NGO Committee on Migration, delivered an oral statement on behalf of our committee during the 63rd session of the UN Commission for Social Development (CSocD63), calling on United Nations Member States “to demonstrate leadership in dismantling systems that isolate and oppress migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, and diaspora Read More
Strengthening institutions to prevent the trafficking of children and adolescents
Parallel event during the 68th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women Poverty, struggling to meet one’s basic needs, is the largest contributor to increasing a child’s vulnerability to child trafficking. Other particularly vulnerable groups are children with dysfunctional families or no parental care who often end up homeless and immigrant children with Read More
Keeping the Promise: Leave No One Behind! Social Protection Responses to Forcibly Displaced Children
On 8th February 2024, the NGO Committee on Migration co-sponsored (along with the World Organization for Early Childhood Education, OMEP) CSocD62 side event “Keeping The Promise: Leave No One Behind! Social Protection Responses To Forcibly Displaced Children” to address the challenges faced by millions of forcibly displaced children worldwide. The moderator, Suna Hanöz-Penney, Director Read More
GFMD Commemoration for John K. Bingham
On 25 January 2024, just prior to the closing ceremony of the 14th Global Forum on Migration and Development Summit (GFMD), the GFMD community presented an award to the family of John Kenney Bingham, in commemoration of John’s “lifetime of service to migrants and for building bridges within the GFMD.” At the commemoration his son, Read More
International Migrants Day: “Dancing Across Borders”
In commemoration of International Migrants Day, the NGO Committee on Migration, co-organizing with Battery Dance, is sponsoring a special event “Dancing Across Borders: Bringing Communities Together through Dance.” On December 14, in observance of International Migrants’ Day, at the Permanent Mission of Canada to the United Nations, “Dancing Across Borders: Bringing Communities Together Through Dance” was organized by Read More