People's Global Action on Migration, Development & Human Rights

The PGA brings together migrant rights organizations, trade unions, and grassroots organizations from around the world to share information, dialogue, strengthen analyses and develop joint actions on current and emerging issues related to migration. The PGA brings together migrant associations, migrant rights organizations, trade unions, faith groups, academia and other civil society from around the world to share information, dialogue, strengthen analyses and develop joint actions and campaigns on current and emerging issues related to migration. It provides an essential space to enable civil society to critically engage the governments’ GFMD process and to challenge states to undertake migration and development policy-making from a human rights framework, as well as hold governments accountable to their international human rights and development commitments. The PGA prioritizes the voices and leadership of organized grassroots migrant and diaspora networks and communities, which are typically marginalized in international forums. The PGA discussions are centered on human rights as the basis for development and explores from a rights-based perspective, the full range of issues involved in migration, including the underlying problems of poverty and injustice, and how civil society and governments must address these.