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

Asia Democracy Network May Day 2020 Statement
Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA) is a member of the Steering Committee of the Asia Democracy Network For Immediate Release April 30, 2020 Seoul, Korea - As the world continues its fight against Covid-19, large swathes of human populations remain under lockdown. The Asia Democracy Network embraces and celebrates laborers from around the world who […]
An Appeal to Governments on Behalf of Migrant Workers in the Midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic
An appeal to governments in the time of COVID-19 by Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA) and Lawyers Beyond Borders Network (LBB Network) The COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc worldwide. More than three (3) million people have already contracted the virus and more than 200,000 have already died. Their numbers continue to rise. Health systems and […]

Publications

Singapore: Quash Prominent Activist’s Conviction
Jailing of Jolovan Wham Violates Right to Peaceful Assembly (Bangkok) – Singapore authorities should immediately quash the conviction of the human rights activist Jolovan Wham in violation of his right to peaceful assembly, Human Rights Watch said today. On August 20, 2020, the Court of Appeal upheld the constitutionality of the draconian Public Order Act’s […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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