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.

MIGRANT FORUM IN ASIA

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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

AIDS CONFERENCE 2006 Statement from CARAM-Asia and Migrant Forum in Asia
For decades, migrant workers all over the world have made significant contributions to the economies of both home and host countries. Without the migrant workers the economies of many sending countries would have collapsed and those of the receiving countries would not have attained their impressive economic performances. In spite of their significant contributions, many […]
CMR Statement to the CEDAW Hearing
The following is the position paper of the CMR during the 36th Session of the UN CEDAW in August 2006 held in Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region of China. CMR Statement to the CEDAW Hearing

Publications

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 […]
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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 […]
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Letter to the Government of the Republic of South Korea, Through its Diplomatic Office in Kathmandu, Nepal
We, the Migrant Forum in Asia, a regional network of non-government organizations (NGOs), grassroots associations and trade unions of migrant workers, and individual advocates of the human and labour rights, and welfare of migrant workers, having just convened a regional workshop on ‘Migration, Detention and Deportation’, here in Kathmandu, Nepal from 9-12 December 2007, having […]
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