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MFA at High-Level Conference on Migration and Development in New York, September 2006
MFA members and activists attended the High-Level Conference on Migration and Development in New York in September 2006 |
Hope Workers Center Meets with POEA
Fr. Peter O’Neill of the Hope Workers Center met with POEA officials on May 18, 2006 to discuss cases of Filipino migrant workers in Taiwan. |
JCMK Sit-in Protest in Photos JCMK militant-protestors stage a sit-in protest action on April 18, 2006 in Seoul, Korea to denounce the harsh crackdown on undocumented workers that killed an Indonesian migrant worker. |
| Diplomacy Training Program on Migrant Workers Convention - April 7-11, 2006, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia The training program aimed to build the capacity of civil society advocates in the Asia-Pacific in understanding the UN Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families and ILO Conventions into their human rights work |
ILO MSAI Training 2006-Singapore The training was conducted among migrant domestic workers in Singapore with the objective of capacitating migrant domestic workers for reintegration through MSAI. Two nationalities were chosen for the trainings: Indonesian and Filipino. Resource persons and organizers for the trainings came from members of MFA both in the Philippines and Indonesia. The training with the Indonesian migrant workers was conducted in March 5, 2006 at the HOME Center office in No. Rowel Road, Singapore. Indonesian migrants in Singapore are mostly domestic workers and a big number of them are only allowed once a month free day or holiday. In most cases the holiday comes on a Sunday. Holidays are mostly spent on running personal errands, calling their families and remitting money to their families. On a regular Sunday, remittance centers would have more than fifty women lined up in front; domestic workers sending money to their families at home |
AMC/CMR Public March, 14-Feb-2006 The Coalition for Migrants’ Rights (CMR), a coalition of 7 grassroots organizations and trade unions in Hong Kong, holds this “Heart Breaking Public March” on 12 February 2006 to express disappointment in the Hong Kong government’s failure to adequately protect the working and living conditions of foreign domestic workers (FDWs). |
ILO NGO-TU Training 2006-Indonesia MFA, together with its Indonesian partner Serikat Buruh Migran Indonesia (Indonesian Migrant Workers Trade Union), held a training for trade unions and NGOs from Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. The training was supported by the International Labour Organization (ILO) through its project: “Mobilizing Action for the Protection of Domestic Workers from Forced Labour and Trafficking” in January 2006. |
International Migrants' Day - December 18, 2005 - Hong Kong The MFA Secretariat called for a global celebration of the International Migrant’s Day, December 18 during the Anti-WTO Action Week in Hong Kong. A peaceful rally that traversed through the streets of Hong Kong was organized to celebrate International Migrant’s Day in conjunction with the registration of protest against the WTO 6 th Ministerial Meeting, and the arrest and detention of more that 500 farmers and activists who had rallied against the WTO on December 17, 2005. At the local level MFA member organizations also hosted activities in solidarity with other people’s organizations highlighting the significance of the day, and calling on their respective governments to do more towards ensuring the protection and promotion of the rights of their nationals through all the phases of the migration cycle in both host and home countries. |
People's Action Week Against WTO Ministerial Conference 2005 - Hong Kong As a critical engagement in the WTO 6 th Ministerial Conference held in Hong Kong from December 13-18, 2005, MFA participated in the People’s Action Week to protest against WTO, particularly on the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). The liberalization of services (e.g. the commodification of water, energy, health and education) is one of the most contested issues in the WTO. MFA’s participation in the People’s Action Week was a follow-up to a series of activities initiated by the network to engage in issues concerning WTO/GATS and its over-all framework of Globalization. The objectives of MFA’s participation in the People’s Action Week included:
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