Multilateral institutions and members of academia will hold a meeting on migration with a special focus on women’s migration from the Caribbean. The event is entitled “Women and Migration: a view from the Caribbean,” and will be held on 22 April in Santo Domingo.

The new UN-INSTRAW virtual community aims to bring together academic experts, practitioners and other stakeholders from all over the world to discuss the issues of migration, remittances and development from a gender perspective, share information and learn from each other. The Gender and Migration Virtual Community was launched on 20 April 2009.

For the first time in a post-conflict country, national governmental institutions, the United Nations, and civil society organizations have worked together to build an inclusive policy document for the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325. On International Women’s Day 2009, the Government of the Republic of Liberia, headed by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, launches its national action plan on women, peace and security.

The project "Strengthening Governance with a Gender Perspective and the Political Participation of Women at the Local Level in Latin America", has contributed to greater debate around the issue of women’s political participation at the local level in the political, academic and media fields. This was one of the conclusions at the conference with representatives from 13 Latin American countries in Santo Domingo on 13 February.

In an effort to better understand current trends in women’s migration and their impact on policy, UN-INSTRAW released the results of two Virtual Dialogues held in September and November 2008. The two Dialogues brought together experts from around the globe to examine migration and development from a gender perspective. 

UN-INSTRAW launched their new theoretical framework “Crossing Borders II: Migration and Development from a Gender Perspective”, at an event organized in Madrid with the participation of the Spanish Instituto de la Mujer on 29 January 2009.