National Migrants Rally 2007

Migrants’ rights are human rights!
Migrants Empowerment Network in Taiwan (MENT) would like to invite you to join us on December 9 to celebrate migrant workers' contribution to Taiwan and to express our concern about Government policies that discriminate against migrant workers and make workers even more vulnerable to unscrupulous brokers and employers.

I have no day off, and I want my day off!!
There are more than 360,000 migrant workers in Taiwan, of whom 160,000 are household workers. The rights and welfare these and other migrant workers are being ignored and trampled on. MENT is calling on the Taiwan government and encouraging Taiwanese society to be compassionate and to respect the human right of household and other migrant workers. We call on the Taiwan Government to enforce the right of all migrant workers to have at least ONE DAY OFF PER WEEK and:

1. Abolish the broker system and implement country-to-country direct hiring
2. Allow free transfer between employers
3. Eliminate the time limit working in Taiwan
4. Include household workers under the Labor Standard Law
5. Allow migrant workers to form their own union

Keep silent? Or Take Action!!
Come and join us on December 9 to show your support and to show the world that migrant workers’ strength and dignity cannot be ignored or silenced.


Migrants Empowerment Network in Taiwan, MENT

• MIGRANT WORKERS’ CONCERN DESK (MWCD), Taipei
• SCALABRINI INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION CENTER (SIMN-Taiwan), Taipei
• TAIWAN INTERNATIONAL WORKERS’ ASSOCIATION (TIWA), Taipei
• VIETNAMESE MIGRANT WORKERS & BRIDES OFFICE (VMWBO), Taoyuan
• HOPE WORKERS’ CENTER (HOPE), Jhongli
• MIGRANTS & NEW IMMIGRANTS’ SERVICE CENTER (HMISC), Hsinchu
• CENTER FOR MIGRANTS’ CONCERNS, Central Taiwan
• UGNAYAN—MIGRANT AND IMMIGRANT MINISTRY, Taichung
• STELLA MARIS INTERNATIONAL SERVICE CENTER (Stella Maris), Khaoshiung
• THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN TAIWAN LABOUR CONCERN CENTER (LCC), Khaoshiung

For more information, please contact:

• English: 02-2311-7764 Lorna (SIMN-Taiwan) Tagalog: 03-573-5375 Paul (HMISC)
• Thai: 07-366-2373 Rung (LCC) Vietnamese: 03-217-0716 Cha Hung (VMWBO)
• Indonesian: 02-2389-5247 Karolus (MWCD)