Editor's note		News
Welcome to the second edition of the GMGN Newsletter. The Global Migration and Gender Network is growing. We received a very positive response to the first edition of the newsletter and now have around 170 subscribed members. We would welcome your feedback on the contents of the newsletter. Is research lacking in a particular area? Are there topics you would like to discuss with other members? Would it be useful to have a meeting of network members? In future, we plan to distribuite the newsletter on a quarterly basis, providing relevant and up to date resources, as well as special features on a particular aspect of gender and migration. For the debate to be as relevant as possible, we rely on you to provide us with feedback. We would like to take this opportunity to inform you that the final report of the Global Commission on International Migration will be presented to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in New York in early October 2005. We will be organziing a number of events to disseminate the findings and recommendations included in the report, and will include further details of this in the next edition of the newsletter. Jeff Crisp, Director of Policy and Research, GCIM Rebekah Thomas, Coordinator, GMGN		Malaysia: Protect Rights of Migrants, Refugees, and Trafficking Victims Letter to the Prime Minister of Malaysia Thailand: Abuses and exploitation of migrant workers exposed Togo: Hunger drives displaced women home despite fears Spain: Domestic violence now recognized as ground for asylum on basis of MPSG Uganda: Rape rampant in largest northern IDP camp Guinea: refugees elect majority women committee to manage refugee camp Make G8 policy history: African Women's rights and the G8

GMGN Resources		Links
Gender and Migration Migration and Gender, IOM Gender and Remittances Migrant Remittances, Development and Gender Gender and Development Evaluation of DFID Development Assistance: Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment Gender and Refugees UNISON National Women's Conference: Women and Asylum UNHCR Discussion Paper No.1/2005: Gender-related persecution and refugees Gender imbalance in Secondary Schools Trafficking Migrants in the Mistress's House: Other Voices in the "Trafficking" Debate Promoting Gender Equality to Combat Trafficking in Women and Children Gender and Domestic Workers A Migrant World of Services Gender, Migration and Human Rights Surrounded: Women and Girls in Northern Uganda Empowering Women Migrant Workers in Asia, A Briefing Kit Human Rights Protection Applicable to Women Migrant Workers Claim and Celebrate Women Migrants’ Human Rights through CEDAW, The Case of Women Migrant Workers, A UNIFEM Briefing Paper UNIFEM-CEDAW Panel on Addressing Women Migrant Workers’ Concerns A New Practice of Labor Organizing: Community-based Organization of Migrant Women Workers in South China		Age plus Gender plus Ethnicity Asylum Aid - Refugee Women's Resource Project Changing together - A centre for Immigrant Women Calgary Immigrant Womens Association Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) EIN (Electronic Immigration Network) FAMAFRIQUE - Reseau genre et ITC Forced Migration Review Madre - Demanding Human Rights for women and families around the world Migrants Rights International Migration Policy Group National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights OneWorld.net - Gender Guide Prairie Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Integration The Womens National Commission - UK Independent advisory body Women's Asylum News WHO - Department of Gender and Health WHO - Sexual Violence Research Initiative Click here for more links.

Events/Activities		Job Vacancies
AGE The partners of the EU project AGE invite you to participate in the conference: POOR, POORER, POOREST? A focus on the socio-economic situation for older migrant women in Europe. Amsterdam - 22 and 23 September 2005 Click here for more information. COMPAS Irregular Migration: Research, Policy and Practice 7th and 8th July 2005 - COMPAS Annual Conference Provisional Schedule Venue: University of Oxford, Centre for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences Click here for more information. Refugee Womens Resource Project RWRP call for practitioners intelligence on womens asylum claims on gender related grounds such as forced marriage/sterilisation/FGM and sexual trafficking. Click here to read more and to download questionnaire. Refugee women: know your rights Are you a refugee woman or woman seeking asylum? You have the right to be safe while living in the UK. Your rights are upheld by the law. Find out what to do if you think your rights are not being respected. Click here for more information.		Programme Director, UNIFEM Afghanistan Advisory Committee Members Changing Together…A Centre for Immigrant Women Changing Together has received a grant of $80,000 over 2 years to conduct an environmental scan on the issue of trafficking of women & girls to Canada. Women for Women Sponsorship assistant UN Volunteers UNV Associate- English Teacher for Vocational training Center for trafficked women in Quang Ninh province.

Books		Call for papers
• The qualities of a citizen: Women, immigration, and citizenship, 1870-1965 Martha Gardner Princeton University Press, ISBN: 0691089930 • Refugee Women Second Edition Series: Program in Migration and Refugee Studies Susan Forbes Martin Foreword by Ruud Lubbers, UN High Commissioner for Refugees • Children of global immigration: Transnational families and gendered voices Rhacel Salazar Parreñas Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press		This is an invitation to all GMGN members to contribute papers, articles, book reviews and news of forthcoming events or publications to be posted on the GMGN website. GMGN will deliver a quarterly newsletter including a special feature on a particular aspect of Gender and Migration. In the next issue we are hoping to include a special feature on the impact of international migration on gender relations in countries and communities of origin. Please use the 'Contribute' page on the left-hand menu bar to contribute papers, articles, reviews and upcoming events. If you have a suggestion or topic that you would like discussed, please use the 'Comments' box on the contribute page. For all other information, please email gender@gcim.org.

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