The Migrant Watch March 2023 Issue

  We are pleased to share with you the March 2023 issue of our newsletter, The Migrant Watch.

In this issue, we have the following articles:

• PMRW Engages with the UN Committee on Migrant Workers
• DAWN-BEM's Holistic Reintegration
• CBCP-ECMI Itinerancy
• PMRW and CBCP-ECMI Conduct Migrants Forum in the Archdiocese of Zamboanga
• 2023 is the Year for CHAMPSEA-III
• 3rd National Seafarers' Family Networking Gathering

Coverage of the 519th Meeting of the 36th Session of the UN Committee on Migrant Workers and Concluding Observations on the 3rd Periodic Report of the Philippines

Representatives from the Philippine Migrants Rights Watch (PMRW) were able to participate at the 36th Session of the Committee on Migrant Workers (CMW) and provide recommendations while observing the 3rd Periodic Reporting of the Philippine Government to the CMW.

Ms. Carmelita G. Nuqui, Fr. Roger C. Manalo and Ms. Ellene A. Sana of PMRW

at the opening of the 36th CMW Session on 27 March 2023 at Palais Wilson, Geneva

PMRW also co-organized a special online briefing with CSOs in the Philippines and the country rapporteurs of the Philippines on 28 March 2023. Their interventions were presented which will be shared at the 3rd Periodic Review.

PMRW members with CSOs and members of the academe in the Philippines

during the online briefing with CMW country rapporteurs on 28 March 2023

On 30 March 2023, PMRW members were able to observe the 3rd Periodic Reporting of the Philippine government to CMW. The full coverage of the session may be viewed at the link below:

Complete Coverage of the 3rd Periodic Report of the Philippine Government to CMW

The CMW provided their concluding observations on the 3rd Periodic Report of the Philippines, incorporating some of the interventions provided by PMRW and CSOs in the Philippines.

Kindly refer to the Advance unedited version of the said observations: