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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 […]
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 […]
Final ILC Report: Working Towards an ILO Convention On Domestic Work
The struggle for recognition of and respect for domestic workers’ rights is a long and arduous road aggravated by rapid changes in our globalized world. Domestic work is considered to be one of the largest, yet unprotected segments of the labour sector. This is so because in many countries domestic workers are not covered by labour legislation. Even if laws and protection […]
ILC Campaign Booklets
MFA produced 4 campaign booklets in preparation for ILC 2010. Paper 1: Consolidated Regional Response to the ILO Questionnaire Paper 2: Support the ILO Convention on Domestic Work - 8-HR Paper 3: Submission to the UN Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families (CMW) to Assist the Committee in […]
Compilation of Bills on Domestic Work: Volume 1 – April 2010
This publication was put together by Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA) and the Asian Migrant Domestic Workers Alliance (ADWA) in preparation for the 2010 International Labour Conference (ILC) where “ Decent Work for Domestic Workers” is part of the Agenda. The publication is part of a series of information education materials produced by MFA and […]
GFMD 2008 Manila Report: Mobilizing Migrant Community and Civil Society Voices for the 2nd Global Forum on Migration and Development

Mobilizing Migrant Community and Civil Society Voices for the 2nd Global Forum on Migration and Development:
The Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA) Experience

Since early 2000, the Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA) has been engaging the United Nations (UN) bodies on migration and development issues as well as other regional and international organizations that continuously monitor the discourse on migration.

MFA’s engagement with the GFMD dates back to our involvement in the 2006 UN High Level Dialogue (UN HLD). MFA was part of the global steering committee that coordinated the civil society componentof the UN HLD where we co-organized a parallel event together with the Migrants Rights International (MRI), the Global Community Dialogue on Migration, Development and Human Rights, which had 80 participants representing 45 organizations from Asia, North America, Latin America, Europe, Africa and the Pacific.

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