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

Statement on International Labour Day 2008 and the Launching of the “Regional Campaign on the Recognition & Protection of Domestic Work as Work”
Today we celebrate the 118th International Labour Day. We honour the more than 100 years of struggle and victories of the working class all over the world, which advanced the rights, status and dignity of workers. “Workers’ rights are human rights” is now a well-established, universal principle embodied in the core instruments of the United […]
Protect the Peoples of Burma in Thailand and Malaysia
Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA) is extremely concerned about the poor protection of the peoples of Burma in Southeast Asia. The peoples of Burma have been driven by persecution, conflict, state-sanctioned violence, and desperate poverty into neighboring countries. More than a million people reside in Thailand and Malaysia alone. As large numbers have not been […]

Publications

Report: Labour Recruitment to the UAE
MFA released a report in January 2011 entitled “Labour recruitment to the UAE: Gaps between policy practice in Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh and the Philippines". Emerging from the analysis of the case studies in the report are two key concerns: the need to better regulate the networks of sub-agents that are operating in each of […]
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MFA endorsement for Professor Virginia Bonoan-Dandan as UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
The term of the current UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, Mr. Jorge A. Bustamante, ends on June 2011.  The mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants was extended for a three years period by the Commission on Human Rights in 2005. The Special Rapporteur’s mandate was further […]
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Open Letter to the Government of Bangladesh on Call for the end of harassment against Odhikar staff
Odhikar staff, in particular its secretary Mr. Adilur Rahman Khan, has been subjected to surveillance and harassment by the government. This has recently extended to Mr. Khan's family as indicated in the attached  statement. Odhikar works closely with our MFA members in Bangladesh and co-hosted the 2011 SAPA General Forum(GF) together with MFA Bangladesh members. […]
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