Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants Statement on the Commemoration of International Women’s Day 2026

This International Women’s Day, the Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants recognizes all women, with a spotlight on women migrant workers whose labor and resilience power communities across the world. Women’s struggles in the past have significantly helped change the situation of women today, but women’s struggle is far from over and needs to be strengthened and deepened, including migrant women.

Women migrants, the majority of whom work in the informal sector, such as domestic work, caregiving, and service provision, continue to face long working hours, temporary contracts, employer-dependent visas, live-in requirements, excessive placement fees and state levies, low wages, and vulnerability to discrimination, xenophobia, rights violations, and physical, mental, and sexual violence.

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