“There are technological solutions it could implement to prevent data corruption.”
“This is not just about Mary Jane. We do not want other families to go through the same ordeal. It is painful to be in an island, waiting for my sister’s remains.” - Maritess Veloso-Laurente
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com MANILA – Eighty nine overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), along with other Asian workers staged a work stoppage to protest the unfair labor practices of their employer, Al Swayeh Company in Saudi Arabia. The OFWs sought the help of...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Migrante International continues to call on the Benigno Aquino III administration to hasten its process of repatriating overseas Filipino workers (OFW) caught in internal conflict-ridden Syria. It called the...
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
“Closing Philippine embassies and consulates abroad is like abandoning Filipinos abroad,.” – Garry Martinez, Migrante International
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
"We already have a shortage of Philippine posts abroad as it is. It is unfortunate that the Aquino administration is attacking embassies and consulates as part of its austerity measures. These same posts, despite their weaknesses and frequent failure to protect OFWs, are still what consists of a support system for OFWs abroad.” -- Garry Martinez, Migrante International
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
"We call on Ambassador Manuel Lopez to act swiftly to determine the conditions of our compatriots living in the areas affected, to secure their safety and to extend all necessary support and assistance to them," Migrante-Japan
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Posted by Bulatlat.com MANILA -- A progressive lawmaker takes up the cudgels for Filipinos stranded in Saudi Arabia, saying that they did not go abroad to live under bridges like storm-drain rats. Last February 7, Bayan Muna Rep. Teddy A....
I thought, at first, that it was a mere coincidence that I get to hear similar wishes over and over again from families of OFWs in distress. But in the three years that I have been writing issues concerning migrants and OFs, it never fails.
Media Release 31 January 2011 Global alliance of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) Migrante International today urged the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) to employ all urgent measures to stop illegal deployment of OFWs to countries that had not...
Press Statement December 13, 2010 This is a rejoinder to the statement issued by the Department of Foreign Affairs on December 11 with a heading “Phl Embassy in Riyadh Assisted Fully OFW Repatriated from Riyadh”. To put the records straight: Migrante-Al Khobar...
Migrante International launched a petition campaign on Tuesday at the seafarers’ recruitment center in T.M. Kalaw, Manila, denouncing the recent increase in e-passport fees, in light of allegations that the contract entered into by the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) for the procurement of the new e-passport is illegal and tainted with corruption.
By MARYA SALAMAT
Forming his team to set the direction of change or political payback? So far, except for Justice Sec. Leila de Lima, the Cabinet of Pres. Benigno Aquino III is a mixture of key figures in his campaign, representatives of big business, and old hands of the former Arroyo administration.
By ARTEMIO A. DUMLAO Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY – Relatives and colleagues of Filipino teacher Benjamin Yango, who was found dead in his apartment in Harbin, China less than a month ago, are asking help from the government for his repatriation. Yango, 33, a native of...
Press Release 10 April 2010 After receiving unconfirmed information about 2 OFW women, allegedly were gang raped by unknown Pakistani drivers in the United Arab Emirates, an alliance of overseas Filipino workers in the Middle East today calls on the RP posts in the...
BY JUAN ANGELO A. HONGO Bulatlat With over ten thousand OFWs stranded in different countries, 41 migrant victims in death row, and over 23 mysterious deaths of migrants, could the Arroyo administration be far from being tagged as a “migrant killer”? One of them is...
BY Bulatlat.com August 13, 2008 - 6:19 p.m. Families of victims of mysterious deaths and members of Migrante International trooped to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) this morning to demand justice and a more thorough investigation on the death of Eugenia...
BY BULATLAT An alliance of overseas Filipino workers' organizations based in the Middle East has set October 17 as a "Black" Friday to protest against and condemn the Arroyo administration for acting ‘too late with too little efforts to save an overseas Filipino...
BY BULATLAT Activists from various organizations said the government’s labor export policy makes Filipinos vulnerable to racism and other abuses. Members of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan), Migrante International, GABRIELA, among others, held a protest in front...
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