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

Malaysia’s “Foreign Workers First Out” Policy Is Unjust, Discriminatory And Unconstitutional

We, the undersigned organizations, groups and networks, concerned about migrant and worker rights, are appalled at Malaysia’s unjust, discriminatory and unconstitutional anti-worker policy, known as ‘Foreign Workers First Out’ (FWFO) policy when it comes to retrenchment.

Uphold the Rights and Support the Struggle of Women Migrant Workers Women’s Day Statement
Today on the occasion of International Women’s Day, we celebrate the immeasurable contribution of women around the world. On this day, Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA) calls on the international community to uphold the rights and support the ongoing struggle of women migrant workers. View the full statement: Uphold the Rights and Support the Struggle […]

Publications

Statement: International Human Rights Day

Migrant Forum in Asia, Statement on International Human Rights Day

December 10, 2011

Today marks International Human Rights Day – a day observed each year to commemorate the adoption by the UN General Assembly of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. This landmark document was the first global enunciation of the rights of all human beings, enshrining the principles of equality and non-discrimination in the realization of these rights, which are to be extended to all regardless of nationality, religion, ethnicity, gender, or legal status. We dedicate this day to those who have lost their lives crossing borders in their attempts to realize the rights to which we are all entitled as human beings.

On this important day, we are called to reflect on how far the international community has come since 1948, and to speak out in solidarity with those who remain unable to see their fundamental rights realized due to political, social, and economic instability and oppression, and due to policies based on xenophobia, intolerance, and discrimination. We dedicate this day to those who have lost their lives crossing borders in their attempts to realize the rights to which we are all entitled as human beings.

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Statement of the 2011 Civil Society Days
29-30 November 2011 Geneva, Switzerland Presented on 1 December 2011 to the Opening Plenary of States, Civil Society and Observers, Global Forum on Migration and Development 2011 by William Gois, Chair of the Civil Society Days of the 2011 GFMD. Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, fellow migrants and colleagues, Human mobility is happening, is unstoppable, and […]
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Conference Statement: 2011 Asia Regional Conference on ILO Convention 189
We are more than 140 participants representing organizations from more than 20 countries and territories, including 35 national trade unions, 5 domestic workers’ organizations and 20 civil society organizations from the International Trade Union Confederation‐Asia Pacific (ITUC‐A/P), International Domestic Workers Network (IDWN), Global Network‐Asia, and Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA). We convened the Asian Regional Conference on “Advocacy towards […]
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