Tags: Migrante International

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…

Members of workers’ groups and other cause-oriented organizations came in their thousands, from all over Metro Manila and adjacent provinces, to mark Labor Day by denouncing the US for causing the country’s current economic troubles and demanding for job security and temporary relief. They also reiterated their demand for a legislated wage hike, which was first put forward in 1999.

It was only a few years ago when the Arroyo administration issued a total deployment ban to Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Qatar and Iraq because of “unstable security conditions”. Fast-forward to the present. The Arroyo administration has now lifted the deployment ban claiming that the security conditions have “improved”. But has the protection of labor and…

Through the reintegration program of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA), a National Livelihood Support Fund was launched to “assist” overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who were retrenched due to the global financial crisis. But retrenched OFWs have to comply with the stiff requirements and be prepared for the long haul before they would be able…

Fourteen years after the enactment of the Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipinos Act of 1995 or RA 8042, the problems confronting OFWs remain the same and are even getting worse. Without urgent action from the government, at least 41 overseas Filipino workers in different parts of the globe stand to suffer the fate of Flor…

A global alliance of Filipino migrant organizations warned aspiring overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) against what it termed as ‘open season for crooked recruiters to abuse innocent applicants.’ BY BULATLAT MIGRANT WATCH A global alliance of Filipino migrant organizations warned aspiring overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) against what it termed as ‘open season for crooked recruiters to…

“Give them justice, not clemency.” This was the call of relatives of OFWs facing the death sentence and those who continue to languish in jail, as they, together with Migrante International, trooped to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) last November 20. The DFA official who faced them, after making them wait for almost two…

Migrante International criticized Mrs. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo for disregarding reports that three OFWs in death row for the killing of three other Filipinos were tortured into confessing to the crime. Her appeal for the commutation of the sentence of the three to Saudi Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz al Saud, Migrante said, is tantamount to admitting…

BY BULATLAT At least 5,000 migrant workers from different parts of the globe under the banner of the International Migrants Alliance (IMA) held a rally in Manila today to protest the opening of the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD). The protesters converged along Quirino Ave. around 10 a.m. and marched toward the direction…

BY BULATLAT Activists from various organizations said the government’s labor export policy makes Filipinos vulnerable to racism and other abuses. Members of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan), Migrante International, GABRIELA, among others, held a protest in front of the Department of Foreign Affairs, 1:30 p.m. The BBC comedy Harry and Paul portrayed a Filipina dressed as…