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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 INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
Janice Joy Pampangan's arms bore marks of being either tied with a thick rope or handcuffed; her left eye was missing; and her internal organs were shrunken. Her fingernails were long and her body appeared disheveled, indicating that she was tied, abused, and left to die.
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
Romilyn Ergy Ibañez adds to the growing list of OFWs who were killed or became victims of rape and violence but whose cases remain unsolved and the perpetrators got off scot-free.
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
The Migrant Heritage Commission said it is high-time for the government to change its development paradigm, especially in the wake of reports that 1,000 Filipino teachers in Prince Georges County and Baltimore in Maryland are facing deportation.
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
"The budget for OFW services is only 0.43 percent of the debt-servicing budget; three precent of the military budget, 14 percent of PPP funds, and 1.9 percent of the presidential un-programmed funds or the President's pork barrel." – Migrante International
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“It is not for the DFA to raise an alert level and declare that there is a directive for ‘voluntary repatriation.’ What should our OFWs do? Who should they call? Where should they go?" – Migrante International
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
The Philippine embassy in Dubai should coordinate with local authorities and work for the speedy release of OFW inmates and their children on humanitarian grounds.
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
"OFWs are still forced to go abroad because the government has offered them nothing substantive and sustainable to address their families's economic needs. Instead, what it has offered are mere dole-outs and band-aid solutions that does not do anything to address widespread unemployment and landlessness the root cause of forced migration." – Migrante International
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Migrante Middle East projects that under the Saudization Nitaqat scheme, some 30 percent of the 1.2M Filipinos in Saudi Arabia or around 360,000 OFWs would be affected.
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
"We are workers, we are not slaves. It is time for labor power to lead and guide the world for it gives and sustains life, unlike finance capital which is a grave-digger of both human life and nature."
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
"It is an added instrument, a tool and a weapon. But it is not the answer to migrant workers' problems." – Migrant workers' organization
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
"It is our priority not just to have his remains repatriated but also to know the truth and for justice to be served. Only the truth could give us a feeling of relief." -- family of OFW
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