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Guidelines for the care and protection of women in the context of migration

Thematic Area
Migrant protection and assistance
Gender and migration
Year
2019
Country
Belize
Guatemala
Honduras
Mexico
El Salvador
Panama
Dominican Republic
Costa Rica
United States
Canada
Language
Spanish

Despite the growing feminization of migration, the invisibility of women as active subjects in migration processes, which is based on prejudice, persists, norms and practices that perpetuate female subordination and discrimination in all areas of society by generating inequality. This document responds to the commitment of the eleven Member Countries of the Regional Conference on Migration (RCM) to promote, protect and guarantee the rights of migrant women in the region, in accordance with their international commitments. The countries of origin, transit, destination and return of the RCM join their efforts on behalf of migrant women through this document, which will serve as a reference for the elaboration, design and implementation of actions at the national level in each of the eleven countries.

This document is available in Spanish.