MIGRANT FORUM IN ASIA (MFA) believes that migrants’ rights are human rights. Documented or undocumented, irrespective of race, gender, class, age and religious belief, migrant workers’ rights are guaranteed by the UN Declaration of Human Rights, the UN Convention on the Protection of Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families and other international conventions.

MFA is a regional network of non-government organizations (NGOs), associations and trade unions of migrant workers, and individual advocates in Asia who are committed to protect and promote the rights and welfare of migrant workers.

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Featured Member

Hope Workers Center

A founding member of Migrant Forum in Asia, Hope Workers Center in Chugli, Taiwan works to educate & assist migrants on their rights & lobby the government for fair employment conditions.


Website: https://www.facebook.com/Hope.Workers.Center

Statements

BCSM Statement on the Death of a Young Bangladeshi Female Domestic Worker in Saudi Arabia
We would like to share with you a press statement released by the Bangladesh Civil Society for Migrants (BCSM) on the death of a young Bangladeshi female domestic worker in Saudi Arabia. The statement calls on the government to hold accountable the recruitment agency and government authorities that unlawfully sent a young girl to Saudi Arabia, […]
Appeal 4: Justice Delayed is Justice Denied States Must Act Now to Address Wage Theft for Migrant Workers
Justice Delayed is Justice Denied States Must Act Now to Address Wage Theft for  Migrant Workers On the 1st of June 2020, a large coalition of civil society organizations and trade unions released an urgent appeal calling for a transitional justice mechanism for migrant workers stranded and repatriated during the COVID-19 pandemic. The appeal highlighted  […]

Publications

The Interfaith Centre on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) officially endorses Migrant Forum in Asia’s (MFA) Call for an Urgent Justice Mechanism for Repatriated Migrant Workers
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 […]
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GCM Policy Brief Series No. 13 | Immigration Detention: Are Alternatives to Detention Alternatives at All?
Immigration Detention: Are Alternatives to Detention Alternatives at All? GCM Policy Brief Series No. 13/ Feb 2021 Immigration detention is a widespread administrative procedure that results in the deprivation of migrants’ liberty. Frequently, individuals are incarcerated in confined facilities in conditions often resembling those of criminal prisons, if not in prisons themselves. Immigration detention can […]
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International Migrants Day 2020: Time to Give Back to Migrants
Today, December 18, 2020, marks International Migrants Day, the 30-year anniversary of the adoption of the 1990 International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of all Migrant Workers and Members of their Families, and the two-year anniversary of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration. A Time for Transformative Action Our world […]
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