On 1 September 2025, Kati Garrison, Vice Chair of the NGO Committee on Migration, delivered a statement – a call to action – during the Civil Society Preparatory Day of the 15th Summit of the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD). This statement launched the global civil society campaign Resist, Reclaim, Realise: Migrant Rights are Human Rights, which aims to harness the collective power of global civil society to meet the urgency and challenge of the current moment with respect to migrant and human rights.
“We must use our numbers, our solidarity, and our resolve to ensure that this Forum is not just another performance of polite dialogue, but a turning point,” urged Garrison… “It must be the launchpad of a campaign that reclaims moral leadership and insists that migrant rights are non-negotiable human rights.”
Click on the following link to read the full article, “Raising the Voice of Civil Society at the GFMD Summit,” and read the full statement here.