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

An Urgent Need For A Rights Based Approach To The Migration Discourse Today
Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA), together with the Asian Migrant Centre has worked for several years to ensure the protection of the human rights of migrant workers in Asia. We are here to express our concern over the growing human rights violations among undocumented migrant workers in Asian in particular, the criminalization of migrant workers […]
Current Perspectives and Strategies in Addressing “Irregular” Migration
We are 107 participants from 21 countries/territories representing migrants’ organizations, trade unions, women and other civil society organizations, academia and UN agencies to deliberate on current perspectives and strategies on “irregular” migration. We thank the Singapore National Trades Union Congress for hosting and co-organising the 10th Regional Conference on Migration (RCM). We acknowledge the support […]

Publications

Bahrain Centre for Human Rights: The Bahraini authorities’ commitment to human rights has been shown to be little more than a farce
Migrant Forum in Asia, a regional network of non-government organizations, associations, grassroots organizations and trade unions of migrant workers and advocates working on the promotion and protection of the rights and well-being of migrant workers and their families in Asia, denounces the Bahraini government’s decision to ban Bangladeshi migrant workers in the country, following the […]
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Mobilizing Migrant Community and Civil society Voices for the 1st Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) 2007
Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA), one of the lead organizations working on the issues of migration and development in the Asian region, felt it necessary for the voices of migrant, trade unions and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) to be heard in the process of the GFMD. MFA together with its international partner, Migrants Rights International […]
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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.

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