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

Asylum Seekers And Migrants At Risk Of Violent Arrest, Overcrowded Detention Centers And Inhumane Deportation
We, the Migrant Forum in Asia, a network of more than 260 migrant organizations and advocates from 13 countries in Asia, are very much concerned by the Malaysian Government’s crackdown on undocumented migrant workers in Malaysia since 2002 which has continued unabatedly. Hundreds of Thousands of undocumented migrant workers since 2002 have been fleeing the […]
Position Paper: Coalition on Migrants’ Rights
The Hong Kong foreign Domestic Workers (FDW) are paid a minimum allowable wage (MAW). Each year, the Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region of China government reviews the MAW. The MAW is again up for review and decision in 2005. The MAW was first implemented in 1987 at HK$2,900 per month; since then and until 1998, […]

Publications

CALL TO ACTION: Resisting Free Trade, Building Alliances, Alternatives and Common Strategies
We are representatives of peasant organizations, women,migrants, workers, urban and rural poor, fisherfolks, social movements and civil society organizations from East and Southeast Asia who have worked together for several years in our common struggle to resist and stop neo-liberal globalization. We gathered together from August 24-26 in Bangkok to discuss and debate common strategies […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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