[4] The Network for Refugee Voices was founded officially in 2017, after informally organizing in 2016.

[5] The organization did not emphasize any strict membership criteria or structure.

[5] The specific activities undertaken to meet that objective were to influence the United Nations Global Compact for Migration, and the Global Compact on Refugees,[6] and to attend the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees' upcoming framework for equitable responsibility sharing.

[5] These advocacy efforts led to increased awareness of the network and greater influence, including attendance at the June 2018 Global Summit of Refugees in Geneva.

[5] The ambitions of the network are most clearly expressed in a quote used by Haqqi Bahram in his 2020 paper "Between Tokenism and Self-Representation": "We have been very vocative about saying nothing about us without us, and that is because we are the people affected by refugee policy, and that is why we have to be part of it.