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

122 Human Rights Groups in Asia-Pacific Call for a Special Session on Burma
(Bangkok) 122 human rights organisations, representing every sector of civil society, join hands in writing an open letter to Ambassador Doru-Romulus Costea, the President of the Human Rights Council (HRC) calling for the HRC to convene a special session on the human rights situation in Burma. This is one of the largest shows of solidarity […]
Appeal to the CEDAW Committee
Migrant Forum in Asia is a membership network of more than 290 migrant organizations, migrants' rights advocates, and individuals from 14 countries in Asia working to protect and promote the rights and well being of migrants and members of their families. Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA) welcomes the opening of the CEDAW Committee's 39th Session […]

Publications

PGA Report Athens 2009
The Peoples’ Global Action had 2 Opening Ceremonies. The first was on November 1 at ONA Theater Hall where the organizers, led by Migrants Rights International, welcomed the participants. PGA participants who were official delegates to the offi cial GFMD then left for the Civil Society Days. On November 4, the PGA participants staged a rally at Propylaia, near […]
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Paper 5 – ILO Brown Report
The 99th Session of the International Labour Conference (ILC) was successfully held from 2 to 18 June 2010 in Geneva, Switzerland. For domestic workers and advocates, it was a momentous and victorious event because ILO Member States fi nally approved in principle to adopt a comprehensive standard for domestic workers in the form of a Convention supplemented by […]
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Paper 1 – ILO Report
At its 301st Session (March 2008), the International Labour Organization (ILO ) Governing Body agreed to put an item on decent work for domestic workers on the agenda at the 99th Session of the International Labour Conference (ILC) 2010, with a view to the setting of labour standards. The ILO 's decision to include the […]
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