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Press Release 21 March 2010 An alliance of overseas Filipino migrant workers in the Middle East today urges fellow OFWs to be vigilant as the political development in the home front becomes undesirable that may lead towards a chaotic situation and political...
Press Release 5 March 2010 Migrante-Middle East, an alliance of overseas Filipino migrant workers in the Middle East, today calls for the recall of welfare and labor officials who are handling the case of distress OFWs working for their erring employer Annasban Co....
Press Release 3 March 2010 “Since Annasban Group has no feedback to my complaints for not fulfilling their obligations and responsibility relating to my Employment Contract as written in Terms & Conditions which I submitted to your good office recently, I decided...
PRESS RELEASE March 3, 2010 The moment has come. Today, March 3, the mostly women OFWs of the Annasban Group of Companies have vowed never to leave the premises of OWWA until justice is served. Campout it is! Since October last year, 88 Filipino caregivers have...
NEWS RELEASE March 3, 2010 In one of the most militant forms of protest by Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) in history, women caregivers repatriated from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia today erected a camp-out in front of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA)...
NEWS RELEASE March 2, 2010 The militant Filipino migrants’ alliance, Migrante International, today dismissed as ‘mission impossible’ the Commission on Elections’ (COMELEC) reported plan to educate the thousands of Filipino voters in Hong Kong and Singapore on the...
Manila – On the second day of their historic protest camp-out, repatriated Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) camping out in front of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) today formed a human chain around the agency’s building to dramatize their demand...
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Migrante International said last week it is standing by the statement of its Middle East coordinator John Monterona that more than 200 overseas Filipino workers employed in Al Arrab Contracting Company had gone one...
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Migrante said it would flood the Kuwaiti government with appeals for Pawa’s life this week . The emir usually gives clemency to individuals on death row during the Kuwaiti Independence Day on Feb. 25.
Hundreds of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) on Friday marched to Mendiola Bridge to demand that the Arroyo government exhort all efforts to reunite more than 300 stranded OFWs with their families this Christmas season. Families of stranded OFWs, together with OFWs...
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com Their advocacy has often placed them in conflict with government officials. However, they do this not to spite the government but to remind it of its job of protecting the rights and welfare of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs)....
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Migrante International promotes the rights of migrant workers, exposes anomalies in the government and has been very vocal in its stand against the intensifying labor-export policy of the regime. Through the Migrante Sectoral Party, Migrante promises to provide OFWs the protection that they deserve.
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Twenty-three overseas Filipino workers who have been working in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for only three to six months want to be repatriated after their employer based in Riyadh failed to give them the salary...
In the afternoon of Aug. 14, the Saudi police raided the safehouse of the migrant NGO Kapatiran sa Gitnang Silangan and arrested and detained 18 Filipinos, including several runaway OFWs. Their crime? They violated a Saudi law that forbids unrelated men and women from living together.
By Aldwin Quitasol Northern Dispatch Posted by (Bulatlat.com) BAGUIO CITY ? Members of Migrante International warned the Filipino people that the latest spate of bombings could be used by the administration of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo as bases to declare...
To many Filipinos in the southern Philippines, Sabah represents salvation. Beckoned by the vast palm-oil plantations in the Malaysian state, they go there in droves seeking employment that they could not find in their homeland. Once there, however, many of them are confronted with the reality of neglect and abuse that is far brutal than the one they had left behind.
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Migrant Watch Bulatlat MANILA -- Ruben de Leon, 25, an overseas Filipino worker in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, woke up on May 25. Last year, in September, he lapsed into coma after being hit by a car driven by a 16-year-old Saudi national. De...
Calling the new guidelines of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration as a “sugar-coated extortion scheme,” OFWs in Hongkong and Migrante International, the local organization of OFWs, are planning more protest actions and bigger mobilizations. BY AUBREY...
BY AUBREY SC MAKILAN MIGRANT WATCH Bulatlat Vol. VII, No. 36, October 14-20, 2007 Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who have experienced “hell” in host countries could very well identify with the plight of Marilou Ranario and other fellow OFWs who have resorted to...
Maltreated overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and relatives of other migrant workers joined various organizations and individuals gathered on Oct. 10, on World Day against Death Penalty, to intensify the campaign to save Marilou Ranario and all OFWs on death row...
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