Commentary: Women Filipino Inmates with Children in Dubai Prison
9 August 2011 Commentary: Women Filipino inmates with children in Dubai prison by John Leonard Monterona, Migrante-Middle East regional coordinator Last week, Migrante-Middle East (M-ME), care of...
View ArticleOFW group questions PH govt. intention to lift OFWs ban in Iraq
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – Migrants’ advocacy group, Migrante-Middle East (M-ME) today questions the intention of the Philippine government plan to lift the ban on overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to Iraq...
View ArticleCrackdown on undocumented migrants in Jordan; 28 OFWs nabbed
The host government had just launched a massive crackdown on undocumented migrants last week, according to a Filipino migrants group providing assistance to distressed overseas Filipino workers (OFWs)....
View ArticleKin suspects foul play in death of Qatar OFW
The family of an overseas Filipino worker who was found dead at the top of her rented apartment in Doha, Qatar on September 4, 2011 is suspecting that there was foul play involved based on the initial...
View ArticlePH govt. performs poorly in combating illegal recruitment activities; average...
As it continue to receive, on a daily basis, cases of illegal recruitment victimizing overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), a Filipino migrants’ rights group today said the Philippine government, from the...
View ArticlePH govt. to ‘extort’ P18-M yearly on ‘Affidavit of Support’ requirement
The Philippine government under the Aquino administration is expected to earn around P18-M to 20-M from imposing a requirement, the Affidavit of Support (AoS), to all overseas Filipino workers (OFWs)...
View ArticleGroup urges Philippine govt. to work hard saving doomed OFW in China
A Filipino migrants’ rights group today called on the Aquino administration and the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to work hard and intensify its efforts to save a Filipino convicted of drug...
View ArticleOFW group calls probe on death of OFW repatriate from Syria while on stop...
A Filipino migrants’ rights group in the Middle East today calls the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) to conduct an investigation over the reported...
View ArticleNot farfetched that more OFWs will be killed in high-risk Syria –OFW group
It is not remote that more overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in strife-torn Syria will be killed, if not hurt, amid news of an OFW ‘killed in an ambush’ that was confirmed today by the Department of...
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