Feminism & International Law

The Committee on Feminism and International Law has produced a Preliminary Report in 2002 and an Interim Report in 2004 on Women and Migration. The first two Reports dealt with various aspects of gender in refugee law and trafficking in women. The third Report's main focus will be on aspects of purely voluntary economic migration, while updating refugee law and trafficking during the period under review. The Report will be presented in June 2006. The objective of the next Report is to study and elucidate the legal status of the female migrant in the light of the Convention on the Rights of Migrant Workers and Members of their Families, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and other international human rights and labour law instruments. The Committee intends continuing to situate legal knowledge within a broader political, economic and social context and examine the impact of gendered power relations on the mobility of women. The final Report on Women and Migration is designed to bring various aspects of female migration together into a set of recommendations reflecting the existing law and the progressive development of international law in this area.