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

Demand for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families Now!
On this day, December 18, in 1990, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families (UN MWC). The UN MWC came into force in July 2003 as international law, and to date has been ratified by 37 state parties. There […]
Letter to the South Korean Ministry of Justice
Today, as the world celebrates the International Migrants Day, we, representatives of various labor unions and migrants rights organizations who came together under the Philippine Solidarity for Migrants Trade Union in Korea (PS-MTUK), affirm our solidarity with our brothers and sisters in the KCTU-affiliated Seoul-Gyeonggi-Incheon Migrants Trade Union (MTU). At the same time, we manifest […]

Publications

Report: Human Trafficking of Legal and Illegal Migrant Workers in Taiwan, Province of China
This report explores what circumstances and conditions migrant workers (documented and undocumented) face in Taiwan, Province of China that may lead them to becoming victims of human trafficking and if there are people more vulnerable than others. It takes a closer look on Taiwan, Province of China's foreign labor policies and how these policies might […]
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Paper 4 – ILO Report
A vast majority of the UN-estimated 60 million migrant workers in Asia are women, and the issue of domestic workers (DWs) in the region is hardly new. In most cases, these women are engaged in domestic work in Malaysia, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region of China, Singapore, Thailand, Macau, India, Taiwan, Province of China and the Middle East. […]
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Paper 3 – ILO Report
On Wednesday 14 October 2009, the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families (CMW) held a Day of General Discussion in Geneva focusing on “Protecting the Rights of Migrant Domestic Workers”. The full day of discussion took place during the eleventh session of the Committee at the United Nations Office at Geneva (Palais Wilson) […]
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