National Consultation on Migration and Development 2009 Hanoi International Convention Center, Hanoi, Vietnam 13-14 August 2009

The Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA) together with the National Legal Aid Agency organized a national consultation on migration and development on 13-14 August 2009 at the Hanoi, International Convention Center, Hanoi, Vietnam. The consultation was attended by 50 participants from CSOs, trade unions, legal aid agencies, government ministries and the media. Aside from local Vietnamese participants, a representative of MFA member in Taiwan, the Hope Workers Center, participated in the program.

 The consultation aimed to bring together key migration and development organizations, NGOs, networks, advocates and civil society groups along with relevant government officials and private

sector representatives who have demonstrated strong corporate responsibility practices at the country level, throughout the Asian region, to coordinate and jointly strategize efforts relating to

the 3rd GFMD in Athens, Greece on 2-5 November 2009. It also aimed to strengthen advocacy around country-specific migrant policy initiatives, such as the ratification and implementation

into national law of the 1990 UN Convention on the Rights of Migrant Workers and Members of their families (UN 1990 MWC).

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