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 Leon’s mother Marissa appealed to the Department…
Category: OFWs & Migration
Retrenched Migrants in New Zealand Appeal for Work Extension
By NOEL SALES BARCELONA Correspondent Migrant Watch Bulatlat MANILA — Retrenched migrants in New Zealand want their work permits to be extended for three months to give them ample time to look for work. Dennis Maga, coordinator of Migrante International in Aotearoa, New Zealand, said in a statement that they have already made an appeal…
Solons Castigate Gov’t Agencies for Neglecting Victims of Illegal Recruitment in Libya
By THEA AYLA P. BANAG Migrant Watch Bulatlat Members of the House Committee on Overseas Workers Affairs criticized several government agencies for “ignoring the pleas” of Filipino workers who became victims of illegal recruitment in Libya. The Committee held an inquiry in aid of legislation, Wednesday, into the plight of 50 overseas Filipino workers in…
Video: Six Months Later, Dead OFW Comes Home to the Philippines
Six Months Later, Dead OFW Comes Home
After 6 Months of Delay and Gov’t Inaction, OFW’s Remains Finally Arrive Home
Family of Dead OFW Bewails Gov’t Inaction
New Labor-Export Policy Commodifies Filipinos
Apart from adding to the burden of those who seek job abroad, the Labor Export Policy bill now pending in Congress could mean that the government will no longer generate local jobs because it would be easier to deploy them to foreign countries.
From Dubai to Manila, an OFW’s Harrowing Tale of Abuse and Betrayal
Maricar Evangelista, 35, a mother of four children, left the Philippines to work as a domestic helper in Dubai. Her story of abuse is similar to the thousands of women migrant workers who have returned home after experiencing various forms of abuses from their employers.
Victims of Harassment Suits Fight Back
The Arroyo government and its allies have been harassing their critics — political activists, human-rights advocates, journalists, government employees, workers, teachers, environmentalists, lawyers, to name some — with court cases that range from the frivolous to the absurd. Now, these victims of political persecution have banded together to fight back.
Waiting for the Dead
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 Emy Pepito. With dreams of having a better life and…
OFWs Face Bleak Future as Global Crisis Hits Companies Worldwide
BY MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN MIGRANT WATCH Davao Today Posted by Bulatlat DAVAO CITY — Unlike most overseas Filipino workers who lost their jobs in Taiwan, Isabelita Atis, 29, felt relieved when her plane finally touched down at the Davao International Airport in December last year. She was among the 6,468 thousand overseas Filipinos laid-off in Taiwan…
Migrant Group Gearing for Tough Fight to Free Alcaraz
Migrante International, an alliance of Filipino migrant organizations, thinks that Cecilia Alcaraz will most likely serve her sentence of life imprisonment in Taiwan unless the Philippine government genuinely exerts efforts to have her freed. Migrante also earlier expressed its dismay over the decision of the Taiwan Appellate Court saying that Alcaraz should not be jailed…