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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Programs and Campaigns

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

Migrant Forum in Asia Statement on International Domestic Workers Day
Migrant Forum in Asia Statement on International Domestic Workers Day Decent Work: The Road Towards Transformation and Empowerment of Domestic workers Today, June 16, Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA) joins domestic workers and all who struggle with them in celebrating the International Domestic Workers Day. On this day in 2011, history was madeat the 100th […]
Civil Society Statement to the 30th ASEAN Summit
ASEAN Framework Instrument Now! Protect ALL Migrant Workers and Decent Work for ALL Civil Society Statement to the 30th ASEAN Summit April 2017, Manila, Philippines On 13 January 2007, ASEAN Member States made a commitment to protect migrant workers’ rights and to promote decent, humane, productive, dignified and remunerative employment. This commitment was enshrined in […]

Publications

MFA Submission to the UN SR on VAW on the topic of Mistreatment and Violence Against Women During Reproductive Health Care
Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA) welcomes the decision of the Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women to produce a joint general comment on mistreatment and violence against women during reproductive health care. MFA looks forward to providing a contribution to the issue relating to the topic in the context of international migration and particularly regarding […]
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Written Contribution of MFA for the UN SR on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights Report on Digital Technology, Social Protection and Human Rights
Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA) welcomes the decision of the Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights to write on the human rights impacts, especially on those living in poverty, of the introduction of digital technologies in the implementation of national social protection systems that will be presented to the General Assembly in October […]
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New Report: MFA’s Contribution to the Committee on Migrant Workers General Comment No. 5 Migrants’ Rights to Liberty and Freedom from Arbitrary Detention
Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA) welcomes the decision of the Committee on Migrant Worker to elaborate a new general comment (No.5) on migrants’ right to liberty and freedom from arbitrary detention. Detention has become a default legal and policy response to dealing with the “problem” of irregular migration wherein undocumented and irregular migrants are detained […]
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