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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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 Groups Slam Treatment of OFWs as Commodities

A COALITION of civil society organizations (CSOs) in the Philippines on Saturday urged the government to address not only the issues of increased remittances but also the responsibility of the country to uphold the rights of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) wherever they may be found.

CALL TO ACTION: Resisting Free Trade, Building Alliances, Alternatives and Common Strategies
We are representatives of peasant organizations, women,migrants, workers, urban and rural poor, fisherfolks, social movements and civil society organizations from East and Southeast Asia who have worked together for several years in our common struggle to resist and stop neo-liberal globalization. We gathered together from August 24-26 in Bangkok to discuss and debate common strategies […]

Publications

Statement: It’s Time for Decent Work for Domestic Workers!
Domestic workers are the biggest sector of workers in the world who are not protected by an international convention. That could change in June: it all depends on whether at least two thirds of the representatives of governments, employers and trade unionists gathered at this year's International Labour Conference (ILC) vote in favor of the […]
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Asian Migrants Demand Rights, Dignity and Solidarity Statement for the 4th Colombo Process
We, the participants of the Civil Society Consultation for the 4th Colombo Process organized by Migrant Forum in Asia on 17-18 April 2011 in Dhaka, Bangladesh, coming from 14 countries  of labour sending and receiving states, welcome the revival of the Colombo Process Ministerial Conference taking place in Dhaka on 19-21 April 2011. The 4th […]
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Protecting Asian Migrants’ Rights: Recommendations to Governments of the Colombo Process
Migrant Forum in Asia, Human Rights Watch, and CARAM Asia welcome the reinvigoration of the Colombo Process, a series of regional consultative meetings on Asian labor migration. The fourth ministerial consultation, taking place in Dhaka, Bangladesh, from April 19 to 21, 2011, provides an important opportunity to improve the benefits of labor migration and to […]
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