From Crisis to Collaboration - Reflections on ASEAN’s protection mechanisms for forced migration

To support implementation of included recognition of the need to This section discusses these two documents, “respond to the adverse impact of the background, strengths, the ASEAN Committee on the the COVID-19 pandemic on and weaknesses of each Implementation of the ASEAN all migrant workers, regardless of development, as a means of Declaration on the Protection their migration status.” 20 This is. [...] 28 From Crisis to Collaboration Reflections on ASEAN's protection mechanisms for forced migration The ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Social Welfare and Development (AMMSWD) is tasked, with the support of the Senior Officials Meeting on Social Welfare and Development (SOMSWD) and the ASEAN Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children (ACWC), as the focal point for mo. [...] 31 From Crisis to Collaboration Reflections on ASEAN's protection mechanisms for forced migration ASEAN Bodies/Groups/Forums/Institutions Migrant worker ASEAN Committee The ACMW was established in 2008 to oversee the protection on the Implementation implementation of the ASEAN Declaration on the Protection and of the ASEAN and Promotion of the Rights of Migrant Workers. [...] It is institutionalised under the work plan of the ASEAN Committee on the Implementation of the ASEAN Declaration on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights of Migrant Workers. [...] To fulfil this mandate, the ACWC has held and Protection a joint meeting with the ASEAN Committee on Women to develop of The Rights the ASEAN Regional Plan of Action on the implementation of of Women and the DEVAWC.