Spain – For the rights and protection of refugee and migrant women and girls
The initiative Women on the Move, Migrant women, and Women with Rights puts the rights of forcibly displaced women and girls at the centre.
● From Alboan, Entreculturas, the Jesuit Migrant Service of Spain (SJM) and the Ellacuría Foundation, we demand that the European Pact on Migration and Asylum incorporates a gender perspective.
Bilbao, 22 November. The Jesuit organisations, namely, Alboan, Entreculturas, Jesuit Migrant Service of Spain (SJM) and the Ellacuría Foundation, want to highlight the Women on the Move initiative. They will do so on 25 November, International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. The Women on the Move initiative focuses on the rights of women and girls, with particular attention to migrant and refugee women.
Through political advocacy and social awareness, we aim to put the rights of migrant women, their stories, their voices and words at the centre of the debate. Understanding migratory flows today requires in-depth explanations because these flows are highly complex. Many of these migratory flows include refugees, climate-displaced persons, people recognised as economic migrants, minors, victims of trafficking or at risk of being trafficked. And in all these transits, the common denominator is the violation of women's rights in situations of forced mobility. The role of gender runs through all these processes.
For this reason, we demand that migration norms and policies consider the structural social inequalities that affect girls, adolescents, and women at all stages of migration: from their origin and transit to their reception in destination countries.
We are at a crucial moment as negotiations on the European Pact on Migration and Asylum are underway. The border procedure proposed by the new migration regulation and being negotiated in the European Union de facto prevents women from accessing the right to asylum. Alboan, Entreculturas, the Jesuit Migrant Service of Spain (SJM) and the Ellacuría Foundation ask that Spain’s position in the negotiations consist of proposing adjustments so that women may have the time, psychosocial and legal resources necessary to exercise their rights.
To this end, we need citizens to collaborate by signing up for safer migration for women.
Links of interest
● "Mujeres en Marcha" website: https://www.mujeresenmarcha.org/
● Women on the Move video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byTCdiGthjA&t=1s
Source : Mujeres en marcha
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