IntroductionThis essay aims to examine how international multilateral treaties shape the Singapore state's discourse on protecting the rights of migrant workers, particularly foreign domestic workers ( FDW), from a state maintenance perspective. sovereignty in the control of migratory flows to a more humanitarian vision of foreign workers as a group vulnerable to exploitation and trafficking. I would conclude that recently the international community has successfully put pressure on the State of Singapore to start making efforts to ensure the proper framework of the FDW. Finnermore (1996) argued that the UN created norms and legitimized actors to engage in multilateralism for humanitarian intervention. I borrowed his framework of analysis of how the international community as a collective actor, the State of Singapore as a state actor, share different norms and values ​​and have different interests. Therefore, they behave and impact the rights of FDWs differently. Significance of this essay for the concept of global governance Koser argued that states often attempt to resolve migration problems using a “unilateral approach” that is unproductive. Achieving international consensus on the rights of migrant workers is difficult because many states refuse to ratify the conventions because they “contradict or add no value to existing national migration laws.” (Koser, 2010, pp. 301--315) Hollifield built on Ruggie's argument (Ruggie, 2002 cited in Hollifield, 2000) that multilateralism will only work in the middle of paper..... .&mtdsg_no= IV-13&chapter=4&lang=en [Accessed: April 8, 2014].UN. 1948. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. [online] Available at: http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/ [Accessed: April 8, 2014].Unodc.org. 2014. Signatories to the CTOC protocol on trafficking. [online] Available at: https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/treaties/CTOC/countrylist-traffickingprotocol.html [Accessed: April 8, 2014]. Varia, N. 2005. Singapore. New York, NY: Human Rights Watch. WWW2.ohchr.org. 1990. International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families. [online] Available at: http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cmw/cmw.htm [Accessed: April 8, 2014]. Yeoh, BS, Huang, S. and Gonzalez III, J. 1999. Migrant domestic workers: debate on economic, social and political impacts in Singapore. International Migration Review, pp.. 114--136.