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

Trade unions endorse action plan to defend migrant rights
Brussels, 15 December 2006 (ITUC Online): As International Migrants Day (18 December) approaches, the International Trade Union Confederation today reiterated its determination to prioritise the fight for the respect of migrants' rights. At a seminar that brought them together for four days in Brussels, some 60 trade unionists and representatives of international organizations defined their priorities […]
Statement of the 2nd ASEAN Civil Society Conference (ACSC II)
We are more than 300 participants from countries in the ASEAN region who gathered for the 2nd ASEAN Civil Society Conference (ACSC II) organized by the Solidarity for Asian People’s Advocacy (SAPA) Working Group on ASEAN and its partners, in Cebu City, Philippines on 10-12 December 2006. We are joined by guests and partners from […]

Publications

Statement on International Migrants’ Day 2008
On this day, Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA) celebrates International Migrants’ Day and calls out to the world to recognize the rights, struggles and contributions of migrants. Over 250 million people worldwide are migrants – living, working, raising families and building communities in places outside their countries of origin. The contributions of migrants are vast and […]
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Yes! To protection of migrant Filipina domestic workers, No! To GMA’s Super Maids and Labor Export Program
The Alliance of Migrants and Advocates to Amend RA 8042 (AMEND) and the Network Opposed to Violence Against Women Migrants (NOVA) recognize recent efforts of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) to protect migrant Filipina domestic workers (FDWs) by issuing stricter rules regulating their deployment. However, the “protection package” of the DOLE may come […]
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Join the “Peoples’ Global Action on Migration, Development and Human Rights”
Government leaders from all over the world will hold the 2nd Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) on 29-30 October 2008 in Manila, Philippines. This follows the High Level Dialogue on Migration and Development convened by the United Nations in 2006 (New York), and the 1st GFMD hosted by the Belgian government in 2007 […]
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