Resist, Reclaim, Realise

Migrant Rights are Human Rights

The great challenge we are facing: why do we need a campaign?

We are in unprecedented times, more difficult and challenging than any other. On the one hand, as civil society, we have helped to drive processes during the previous Global Fora on Migration and Development (GFMD) as well as the adoption of the Global Compact for Migration (GCM) in 2018. Human rights have been included on the global agenda for migration, and civil society has advanced in the past decades of international global governance to have seats ‘at the table.’

Resist

We must respond and rise up to what we are experiencing. Wherever we are, we have to resist the criminalisation of, and cruelty towards migrants and the violation of human rights. We must document, support, and push back when possible. We must show we are a force to be reckoned with and will not stand idly by.

Reclaim

We must reclaim the concepts, language and power of human rights, diversity and representation on our own terms, away from co-optation by political actors; reclaim our lost ground, dignity, empowerment and humanity.

Realise

We must work together as civil society to develop common understandings, goals, visions, and strategies for holding decision-makers to account- moving away from accepting endless conferences consisting of vague goals and noncommittal statements, and push for real implementation and impact on the ground and in our communities.

Our Objectives

As civil society, take control of the agenda in this extremely crucial turning point for migrants and human rights, setting the tone for our engagement in international governance and migration discourse for the coming years.
Communicate clearly and strongly what an intersectional future of international migration governance, policy and discourse must be.
Display our collective solidarity and strength in unity as we face the degradation of human rights, the rule of law, and the silencing of migrants and the rest of civil society.
Set the momentum needed for us to come together with wider social movements and human rights-focused civil society and resist our global descent into fascism.