Mariette Grange is a human rights practitioner who co-founded the Amnesty International Office to the United Nations in Geneva in the late 80s and subsequently became the Advocacy Director of the Human Rights Watch Office in Geneva, providing leadership during the institution-building years of the Human Rights Council in 2006 and 2007. In between both assignments she has done advocacy work on migration and forced displacement and research on child labour, “child protagonism”, women rights, and the landmines campaign at the World Council of Churches. She then joined the International Catholic Migration Commission in 2001 and established a rights-based international advocacy programme for refugees, migrants and internally-displaced persons rooted in ICMC’s field operations and led research projects on the United Nations human rights treaty body system, with particular emphasis on protection of the rights of migrants and racism.

More recently, Mariette Grange was the External Relations Coordinator of the International Council on Human Rights Policy until the end of 2008 and also did research on UN treaty bodies’ jurisprudence and practice for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and produced pilot training material on the human rights of migrants for the Office.

A board member and adviser to several NGOs and training programmes, she regularly advises civil society organisations, academic projects and inter-governmental processes and mechanisms on issues of migration and human rights and shares expertise through capacity-building and training activities in various world regions. Ms Grange holds an MA in translation from the Institut Supérieur de Traducteurs et Interprètes, Brussels. Her MA thesis focused on anthropology and the caste system.

Mariette Grange acted as advisor to the GDP since its creation in 2006, prior to joining it as Research Associate in 2011.

Selected Publications Related to Global Migration Issues

The relevance of the Convention on Migrant Workers for the Middle East, December 18, April 2010

The Role of the civil society in campaigning for and using the Convention in Migration and Human Rights: The United Nations Convention on Migrant Workers’ Rights,  by Ryszard Cholewinski (Editor), Paul de Guchteneire (Editor), Antoine Pecoud (Editor) co-authored with Marie d’Auchamp, Cambridge University Press, 2009, pp 70-99

Droits de l’homme et migrations : l’émergence d’un enjeu international, in Hommes et Migrations, « La Convention des Nations Unies sur les droits des travailleurs migrants: Enjeux et perspectives », n° 1271, January-February 2008, 173 p, Cité nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration, pp 120-129

How to Strengthen Protection of Migrant Workers and Members of their Families with International Human Rights Treaties: a do-it-yourself kit, International Catholic Migration Commission, 2006

Importancia e impacto de la Convención Internacional sobre la Protección de los Derechos de los Todos los Trabajadores Migratorios y de sus Familiares, in Derechos Humanos de los Migrantes, Programa de Cooperación sobre Derechos Humanos, México-Comisión Europea, Veracruz, Mexico, 2005, pp 43-52

Regional Migration Consultative Processes: where is civil society?, in Asian Migrant Yearbook 2002-2003, Asian Migrant Centre, Migrant Forum in Asia, Hong Kong December 2004

Entrevista, Treballador migrant, Drets del Migrants, Mes a prop de Caritas, Caritas Diocesana de Barcelona, September 2003, Number 21, pp 12-13

Lobbying Tips at the International Level and From Grassroots to International: The Role of Migrant Rights NGOs in International Advocacy in a World on the Move: A Report on the 2001 UN World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance, A Resource Guide on International Migrant Rights, National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, 2002, Oakland, California, USA 

Les femmes, au cœur des migrations internationales, in Migrations et Pastorale, Mai-Juin 2002, n° 298, Paris

The World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, 31 August – 8 September 2001, Durban, South Africa. A report by the International Catholic Migration Commission, co-written with Marilou Suplido, March 2002, Geneva 

Trafficking in Persons: A Special Reference to Women and Children, in UN High Commissioner for Refugees

NGO Manual on International and Regional Instruments Concerning Refugees and Human Rights, July 1998, European Series, Volume 4, No 2, 1998/07, pp 305-324