Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA), together with the Asia Democracy Network (ADN) and the Asian Network for Free Elections (ANFREL) are jointly organizing a Stakeholders Strategic Conversation on Migrant Workers’ Franchise Rights. The session will be held on 22 April 2021 (Thursday) 2:00PM-4:00PM Manila. The dialogue will look at challenges, gaps, and barriers that prevent…
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PRESS RELEASE | MFA Releases First Case Analysis Report, “Crying Out for Justice: Wage Theft Against Migrant Workers during COVID-19” For immediate release 12 April 2021 Last 07 April 2021, Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA) launched the analysis report, “Crying Out for Justice: Wage Theft Against Migrant Workers during COVID-19” as part of the Justice for Wage…
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Report: Crying Out for Justice: Wage Theft Against Migrant Workers during COVID-19 On 07 April 2021, Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA) virtually launched the analysis report, “Crying Out for Justice: Wage Theft Against Migrant Workers during COVID-19” as part of the Justice for Wage Theft campaign, which documented cases of wage theft from the period…
Continue Reading ...Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA), the Cross-Regional Center for Refugees and Migrants (CCRM), the Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism (GRFDT), the Civil Society Action Committee, Alianza Americas, Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM), and the Climate Migration & Displacement Platform (CMDP) would like to invite you to save the dates of…
Continue Reading ...Christopher at his newly-built house in Vizhinjam, a coastal village in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India, on March 20, 2021. Chirstopher Shaji, a 46-year-old Indian civil engineer, is fighting a case in the UAE for his unpaid salary and other benefits after being laid off by his company. The company had cited fund crunch due to COVID-19…
Continue Reading ...Access to Justice is Still a Challenge for Bangladeshi Migrant Women A research report released last month by OKUP, a grassroots migrant organisation, in Bangladesh, reveals that out of the 262 returnee migrant women cases they compiled, nearly 95 percent of them were recruited by unauthorised sub-agents or sub-sub-agents. Rejimon Kuttappan When Naima…
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Launch of Analysis Report: “Crying Out for Justice: Wage Theft Against Migrant Workers During COVID-19” Upon the launch of the Justice for Wage Theft campaign in June 2020, Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA), together with our members and partners, started actively documenting cases of wage theft experienced by migrant workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The documentation…
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Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), a coalition of long-term institutional investors representing $2 trillion USD in assets under management, formally endorses the MFA’s Call for an Urgent Justice Mechanism for Repatriated Migrant Workers. The ICCR recognizes numerous retailers and manufacturers in all sectors avoiding liability for systemic abuse in the past which has been…
Continue Reading ...Revised minimum wage for Indian migrant workers in Qatar is less than what the Gulf country has set for all migrant workers, says Bheem Reddy Rejimon Kuttappan Indian workers reduced minimum referral wages in the Arab Gulf countries will not be changed, an Indian minister has said in the lower house of the…
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The Nepalese Version of the Migrant Forum in Asia 12 Reasons to Ratify ILO C189 on Decent Work for Domestic Workers is now available for download. Please find below the full publication. The PDF Version of the File is available for download below:
As part of the regional campaign for the ratification of ILO Convention 189 on Decent Work for Domestic Workers, MFA developed the 12 reasons to Ratify ILO C189. Please find below the full text of the publication. A PDF copy of the publication can also be downloaded below. 1. 67 Million domestic workers across the…
A national consultation for the ratification of ILO C 189 was held on 26 November 2018 in Dhaka Bangladesh. The consultation was organized by MFA, RMMRU and DWRN as part of the on-going campaign for decent work for domestic workers.
MFA in Collaboration with NNSM, Home Workers Trade Union organized a nation consultation on the ratification of ILO C189 held on 15 November 2018 in Kathmandu, Nepal as part of the campaign on decent work for domestic workers.
The 2017 Mapping to Enhance Collective Advocacy, Action and Empowerment of Domestic Workers in Asia: Survey Results is now available for download. The report was prepared by MFA and IDWF.
Migrant Forum in Asia was invited to speak at the high level panel on Women and girls on the Move: Towards Safer Work and Migration for Women, Assessing Determinants of Vulnerability and Women’s Empowerment through Migration. The Panel was part of the 2018 European Development Days and organized by the Swiss Agency for Development and…
On 14 March 2018, Migrant forum in Asia in collaboration with the Bangladesh Civil Society for Migration, organized a national consultation on the Ratification of ILO C189 on domestic work. The consultation was the culmination of a series of meetings and programs to launch a national campaign for the ratification of the ILO C189 on…
Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA) in Collaboration with the National Network Safe Migration organized a national consultation to discuss Nepal’s ratification of ILO C189 on domestic work. The consultation was held in Kathmandu, Nepal on 20 March 2018. Thirty participants representing migrant CSOs, trade unions, women’s organizations and members of the National Network participated in…
Domestic worker leaders and representatives, domestic workers’ unions and federations, migrant groups and advocates, trade unions, civil society groups, lawyers, academics and members of parliament from ASEAN member countries and other Asian countries came together on 22-24 October 2017 in Manila for a regional gathering, to follow-up on decisions and plans agreed at our first Asian regional domestic workers’ conference in 2011 and to take stock of the developments six years after the adoption of that landmark treaty.
