By JONELLE MARIN and JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com CORAZON DE JESUS, San Juan City -- Noah Andaliza, 22, was forced to leave Barangay (village) Corazon de Jesus in San Juan City when he was still 7 years old. Poverty pushed his parents to send him to live with...
By JANESS ANN J.ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Overseas Filipino Workers from Madagascar did not expect that their struggle to get what is due to them is by far harder back home. "I was relieved when I was finally repatriated. I know that OFWs have contributed...
By ERIKA CALEJA and JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
“It is the government’s policy to provide legal counsel only at the tail end of the case. It is like waiting for an illness to turn into cancer before being treated.” – Migrante International
By D.L. MONDELO Bulatlat.com UTRECHT -- A busload of forty two students taking up masters degrees and five academic supervisors from the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom came to Utrecht, The Netherlands to listen to a lecture by Prof. Jose Maria Sison...
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Sally Ordinario-Villanueva's sister Mirasol said that the government should generate jobs so that Filipinos would not be forced to leave and work abroad. She also urged the government to go after the drugs syndicates that victimized Sally.
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
We should not allow our people to mourn over and over again for the loss of lives of our fellow Filipinos here and overseas. For the best way to render justice to Ordinario, Credo and Batain is not to allow such injustices anymore." – Hustisya
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- As slain urban poor leader Antonio "Nono" Homo was laid to rest on Tuesday, his kin and comrades vowed to continue fighting and asserting their right to decent housing and social services to make sure that he did not...
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
As March 30 nears, Filipinos, especially relatives of the three Filipino migrant workers who are set to be executed in China, are still hoping for a miracle: to be able to bring them back home alive.
A Film Review By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA – The documentary opened with children playing, while at the foreground a child is seen fishing for the day’s meal. Later, that same child helped his mother with household chores. It turned out that the child...
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Migrante Japan deplored the decision of Ambassador Manuel Lopez to evacuate embassy personnel in japan when a lot of Filipinos are still needing assistance.
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
This was not the first time Gil Lebria, 37, had gone abroad for work. Unfortunately, this was also not the first time that he and others like him encountered a major problem that the Philippine government had ignored and, as a result, they were forced to return home earlier than planned, empty-handed.
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Migrante International said the government's "slow, dismaying and disorganized action" in repatriating overseas Filipino workers who were trapped in strife-torn Libya should not be repeated in other countries in the Middle East and North Africa, where protest actions against governments intensify. | Sidebar: OFW Recalls Danger in Libya, Denounces Neglect by Philippine Government | FULL COVERAGE: Anti-government protests in Libya and elsewhere
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
St. Scholastica’s College has given recognition to Bulatlat.com writer Anne Marxze Umil for her coverage of issues concerning women.
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Migrante International criticized the Aquino administration's crisis management -- from the repatriation of OFWs to simply responding to the calls via their hotline numbers -- as slow and inept. The group challenged the government to provide more than just livelihood assistance in dealing with jobless OFWs who would be flocking the country in the coming days.
Bulatlat.com will provide live updates as they come about the crisis in Libya and the situation there of overseas Filipino workers.
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Maria Victoria Cavanes and her fellow OFW Maricel Busbos, who are working as domestic helpers in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, are being routinely physically abused by their employers. Their families are desperately appealing for their rescue.
Bulatlat.com will provide live updates as they come about the crisis in Libya and the situation there of overseas Filipino workers.
MANILA -- A migrant group in the Middle East believes that officials of the Philippine embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, duped an overseas Filipino worker (OFW) rape victim into believing that her case was weak and that it was to her interest to settle it...
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