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

An Appeal to the Government of Bangladesh to Release the 255 Returned Bangladeshi Migrant Workers Accused of Suspicious Activities
In the 18 August 2020 edition of the online newspaper, The Daily Star1, it was reported that at least 255 Bangladeshi migrant workers who have completed their quarantine for COVID-19 after their deportation from Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain, are now being detained in the Kashimpur jail in Bangladesh allegedly for violation of Section 54 of […]
Singapore: ICJ urges authorities to refrain from legal harassment of human rights defenders
        21 August 2020 The ICJ today condemned the conviction and imprisonment of human rights defender Jolovan Wham following the dismissal of his appeal by Singapore’s highest court in connection with a conference he had organized in 2016. The ICJ urged the Singapore’s authorities to take action to quash the conviction and […]

Publications

Appeal 5: Measures for Addressing Wage Theft Affecting Millions of Migrant Workers in the Times of COVID-19
On the 1stof June 2020, a large coalition of civil society organizations and trade unions launched an appeal to governments to establish an “Urgent Justice Mechanism” that addresses the plight of millions of migrant workers whose wages have been unjustly withheld by their employers. Subsequent appeals called on the international community, especially the UN system, […]
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Policy Brief | GCM Objective 5 Which way forward on GCM Implementation in the era of COVID-19?
Which way forward on GCM Implementation in the era of COVID-19? Objective 5 and International Cooperation are the keys. Building on weekly discussions with stakeholders in the context of the “Global Review of the Implementation of the Global Compact for Migration” webinar series,[1] we propose an implementation strategy that takes Objective 5, “Enhance availability and […]
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Policy Brief No.2 Transitional Justice for Migrant Workers: Responsibilities of Business
Transitional Justice for Migrant Workers: Responsibilities of Business BACKGROUND Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of migrant workers have been repatriated back to their home countries with months of unpaid wages and benefits due. The issue of wage theft is endemic for migrant workers which has been further exacerbated by the current crisis. […]
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