{"id":23,"date":"2017-07-12T12:58:08","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T16:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/human-rights-institute\/our-work\/international-migrants-bill-of-rights-initiative\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:08:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:08:13","slug":"international-migrants-bill-of-rights-initiative","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/human-rights-institute\/scholarship\/scholarship\/international-migrants-bill-of-rights-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"International Migrants Bill of Rights Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The movement and the rights of people crossing borders around the world are inadequately governed and incompletely protected by a fragmented patchwork of international institutions and norms. In response, the International Migrants Bill of Rights (IMBR) contributes a comprehensive, coherent articulation of the legal framework that protects the rights of all international migrants, regardless of the impetus of their migration.<\/p>\n

Based at Georgetown University Law Center, the IMBR Initiative, and its growing global Network, contributes to important, ongoing debates about the way the world views and treats people who cross borders. Accessible yet substantiated by extensive legal research, the IMBR promotes the normative foundation for human rights protections at multiple levels of supranational migration governance. Because norms and governance mutually reinforce one another, strengthening one \u2013 through the IMBR and the work of the IMBR Initiative \u2013 stands to increase the effectiveness of the other.<\/p>\n

The Initiative pursues this work using tools developed by an international network of students and scholars in consultation with migrants, civil society, policymakers and regional and international organizations. The resulting products feature:<\/p>\n