“It is typical of the Duterte regime to see destabilization as behind the Filipino people’s cry for political, economic and social justice.”
“I am yearning for my mother. I hope to be with her soon. Please continue supporting her.”
Manang Caring helped organize the United Abrenians in Hongkong in 1990 and ATIS-HK (Abra Tinguian Ilocano Society – Hong Kong) in 1992.
“We shall also revisit and exhaust other options and channels to ensure that Mary Jane is rightfully saved from the gallows on legal, political and humanitarian grounds.”
Migrant advocates are calling on President Duterte to do everything in his power to save Mary Jane and all innocent OFW's on death row.
“President Duterte, my supposed execution was reprieved because Christina (Sergio) and Julius (Lacanilao) have pled their guilt and that I am innocent and had no knowledge of the drugs found in the luggage I brought.”
Jennifer has been declared innocent without diyyah or blood money payment.
“The bottom line is this: how in heaven's name can we get to hear the side of a compatriot who is behind bars and waiting on death row in a foreign land and who cannot come home for said purpose?”
"We urge you to provide genuine service to our sector and stop taking advantage of the Immigration Department's new policy to make money from OFWs.”
“The government’s failure in the early stages of the trial to provide Pawa with a lawyer made an unfavorable verdict possible.”
Overseas Filipino workers and Filipino immigrants in different parts of the world added their voices in denouncing the burial of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani (LNMB). Migrante International chapters in Hong Kong, Thailand, Taiwan,...
“It is a settled fact that the private complainant is a death row prisoner having been convicted of drug trafficking in the Republic of Indonesia.” By JONAS ALPASAN Bulatlat MANILA – A Nueva Ecija court upheld its earlier decision to allow Mary Jane Veloso, the...
“We ask the Duterte administration to do everything to win the domestic case against Mary Jane’s traffickers.”
“My family maybe poor, but I would never be involved in illegal drugs…I am innocent.”
“The situation at hand presents a distinct factual milieu. The private complainant Mary Jane Veloso is not sick or infirm.”
“We are enduring the fact that we have to be away from our families to provide for their needs. But now, we have lost everything.”
“We urge President Duterte to not only limit the exemption to returning OFWs, but to abolish the OEC permanently.”
Migrante International leader Sol Pillas, 58, served Filipino migrant workers all over the world “until her last breath.”
For months, a number of Filipino migrant workers in Saudi Arabia have been out of work and stuck in camps with no water or electricity. Their wives are calling on government to bring them home.
“To deny these evident facts is to miss the elephant in the room, so to speak, is outrageously ridiculous, and would make us the laughing stock of the world.”
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