MADE Webinar: Global Forum on Migration and Development with binding processes. The case of women in migration in Mexico Fostering the work of UN Women and of civil society organizations with the CMW and the CEDAW Committees Good morning, I am grateful to the Migration and Development Civil Society Network (MADE) for the invitation to participate in this Webinar. As UN Women, we know that human mobility is one of the most important features of our planet. Each year, 214 (two hundred and fourteen) million women and men leave their homes and cross borders, a figure that could reach 405 (four hundred and five) million people by 2050. 49% of these migrants are women.

Agenda post-2015 From the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to the Sustainable Development Goals (ODS): For the first time in the debate, migration was formally recognized as an important factor in development Taking this scenario as a reference, and in the context of the World Post 2015 Development Agenda, we confirmed that for the first time in the global discussions, migration is recognized as an important factor in development. In the Sustainable Development Goals, migrant population and particularly women are referred to in that condition. In the SDG number 8, which focus is the Promotion of inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment and decent work for all, we can find targets with gender perspective as the achievement of full and productive employment and to ensure decent work for all men and women and equal pay. Also, this objective raises the need to protect labor rights and promote a safe and secure workplace for all workers, including migrant workers, particularly migrant women and people with precarious jobs. Meanwhile, Target 10, raises the necessity to facilitate orderly, safe, regular and responsible migration and mobility of people, including through the implementation of planned and well-managed migration policies.

Integrating migrant women in the framework of regional shared responsibility More women and children in recent decades They migrate as dependent or independently Contribution to development Specificity of women in migration However, although migrant women contribute to poverty reduction and growth of the economies in their countries of destination and origin, the international community only recently began to realize this. Currently, women migration has gone from being a marginal issue, to become an issue of growing importance. Some authors even define the increase of female migration as one of the five traits that distinguish the current Age of Migration. Nevertheless, it is clear that although it has increased the visibility of female migration, women still face dangerous risks such as exploitation in domestic work and vulnerability to violence during migration. The inequalities in migration, labor and life experiences between men and women is the result of relationships and gender roles.

Regulating the work of migrant women and ensuring their rights according to international standards is a key equality issue in all aspects of development Therefore, regulate the work of migrant women and ensure their rights according to international standards, is a key equality issue, and is key in all aspects of development. With this in mind, the international community has developed a series of instruments for the protection of the rights of women migrant workers. The Convention on Migrant Workers (CMW) is the main instrument of protection of the rights of migrants, however, despite having the General Observation No. 1 on domestic workers, this does not consider the situations and needs of women migrant workers.

General Recommendation No. 26 of CEDAW It addresses the situation of women migrant workers who perform paid jobs, which may be at risk of abuse and discrimination and have a high probability of not meeting the requirements for permanent residence or citizenship. It focuses on women that: Migrate independently They meet with their husbands or other relatives who are also workers Migrant workers in an irregular situation that might be in any of the above categories. This is the context in which the Convention on the Ellimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (best know as CEDAW) becomes important for the issue of migrant women: with General Recommendation No. 26, CEDAW seeks deep solutions to discrimination and exclusion based on gender that, in combination with other dimensions as ethnicity, economic status, national origin, age, occupation, limit the exercise of the rights of women migrant workers. General Recommendation 26 of CEDAW addresses the situation of women migrant workers who perform under paid jobs, which may be at risk of abuse and discrimination and have a high probability of not meeting the requirements for permanent residency or citizenship.

Forum for the monitoring of the observations and recommendations to Mexico by the CMW and the CEDAW Event focused on the promotion of joint reports/recommendations. High profile joint strategic advocacy by relevant international human rights mechanisms & Special Procedures. Strategic international advocacy. With the aim of linking both Conventions, CMW and CEDAW, UN Women, with the Office of the United Nations Human Rights High Commissioner (UNHCR) as co-convener, and in collaboration with the Migration and Development Civil Society Network (MADE), the Network Foro Migraciones and the Collective Network Migration for the Americas (COMPA), organized in January of this year the Forum for the monitoring of the observations and recommendations to Mexico by the CMW and the CEDAW that convened two experts of both Committees with 68 Mexican Civil Society Organizations, for the discussion of the interlinkages between the two conventions, within the framework of the forthcoming reports that Mexico will present to both the Committee on Migrant Workers in 2017 and for the CEDAW Committee in 2016. The forum was organized to strengthen the skills and advocacy capacity of the participating organizations and networks dedicated to the promotion and protection of the rights of migrant workers and women, particularly focusing on enhancing capacities to prepare alternative reports due this year, to be presented to both Committees.

Linking CMW and CEDAW: areas of opportunity Exchange of information development of possible actions - joint activities Follow-up to recommendations Joint actions to defend human rights among UN mechanisms Strengthening of coherence, avoiding gaps and overlaps between them Reinforce of complementarity efforts, greater impact. Recommendations oriented towards practice, focused discussions oriented to the practice Identify ways and means for the implementation of the Conventions. The advocacy meeting that convenes experts of the two Conventions, also demonstrated the innovative character of the joint visit to contribute to the implementation of the recommendations made by CEDAW and by the CMW to the Mexican State. In particular, the link between migration and gender, and addressing the situation of women throughout the migration process is essential. As noted by the experts, the linking of both Conventions is a good practice that has already been implemented in other countries or between Committees (as the Joint General Comment on the Rights of the Child, Formulated between CEDAW and the Committee on the Rights of the Child (Number 31 of CEDAW and Number 18 to the CRC). The development of coordinated recommendations between the two committees is considered by UN Women as area of opportunity because that allows: Exchange of information The development of possible actions or joint activities Follow-up to recommendations or observations The promotion of joint actions to defend human rights among UN mechanisms The strengthening of coherence, avoiding gaps and overlaps between them Reinforce of complementarity efforts, with the aim of achieving greater impact of the recommendations or observations. To make recommendations oriented towards practice, and more focused discussions that lead recommendations oriented to the practice To identify ways and means to overcome the challenges and obstacles to the implementation of the Conventions.

Thank You Monica Corona, UN Women Mexico National Coordinator, Women on Migration Monica.corona@unwomen.org http://mexico.unwomen.org/es