Executive Director, Scalabrini Migration Center
Thursday, June 27, 2013
Country Migration Report : The Philippines 2013
Presentation made by Fr. Graziano Battistella
Executive Director, Scalabrini Migration Center
Executive Director, Scalabrini Migration Center
News on PMRW and other NGOs seek to join ‘sex-fly’ probe
NGOs seek to join ‘sex-fly’ probe
NON-GOVERNMENT and migrant workers’ organizations are clamoring for inclusion in the panel that is investigating complaints that foreign affairs and labor officials assigned in the Middle East sexually exploited distressed overseas Filipino workers in exchange for their quick repatriation.
Susan Ople, president of the OFW rights advocacy group Blas F. Ople Policy Center, said a group of civil society leaders and OFW advocates will send a formal letter to Secretaries Albert del Rosario of foreign affairs and Rosalinda Baldoz of labor requesting that at least two NGO representatives and a social worker from the social welfare department be allowed to sit in the investigating body.
Ople said the group would also ask that the probe be expanded to include all forms of sexual exploitation, including sexual harassment by embassy personnel.
She said they would also propose that government formulate “a more gender-sensitive, professional and developmental approach to shelter management and OFW services.”
The Ople Center is joined in its advocacy by the Filipino Migrant Workers’ Group, LBS Recruitment Solutions, PEBA, the Philippine Migrant Rights’ Watch, and the Kabalikat ng mga OFWs.
NGOs want to be part of 'sex-for-flight' probe
MANILA – Advocates for overseas Filipino workers and a group of civil society leaders want to be included in the investigating panel tasked to probe the 'sex-for-flight' complaints against certain embassy personnel particularly in Middle East posts.
Susan Ople, head of the Blas F. Ople Policy Center, said they sent a formal letter of request addressed to the secretaries of foreign affairs and labor and employment to air the following recommendations:
- Include at least 2 NGO representatives and a social worker from the DSWD to sit in the investigative panel;
- Expand the probe to include all forms of sexual exploitation including sexual harassment by embassy personnel;
- Regardless of the outcome of the probes, for the government to formulate a more gender-sensitive, professional and developmental approach to shelter management and OFW services.
NEWS ON PMRW AND OTHER NGOS SEEK TO JOIN ‘SEX-FLY’ PROBE
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NGOs seek to join ‘sex-fly’ probe
NON-GOVERNMENT and migrant workers’ organizations are clamoring for inclusion in the panel that is investigating complaints that foreign affairs and labor officials assigned in the Middle East sexually exploited distressed overseas Filipino workers in exchange for their quick repatriation.
Susan Ople, president of the OFW rights advocacy group Blas F. Ople Policy Center, said a group of civil society leaders and OFW advocates will send a formal letter to Secretaries Albert del Rosario of foreign affairs and Rosalinda Baldoz of labor requesting that at least two NGO representatives and a social worker from the social welfare department be allowed to sit in the investigating body.
Ople said the group would also ask that the probe be expanded to include all forms of sexual exploitation, including sexual harassment by embassy personnel.
She said they would also propose that government formulate “a more gender-sensitive, professional and developmental approach to shelter management and OFW services.”
The Ople Center is joined in its advocacy by the Filipino Migrant Workers’ Group, LBS Recruitment Solutions, PEBA, the Philippine Migrant Rights’ Watch, and the Kabalikat ng mga OFWs.
NGOs want to be part of 'sex-for-flight' probe
MANILA – Advocates for overseas Filipino workers and a group of civil society leaders want to be included in the investigating panel tasked to probe the 'sex-for-flight' complaints against certain embassy personnel particularly in Middle East posts.
Susan Ople, head of the Blas F. Ople Policy Center, said they sent a formal letter of request addressed to the secretaries of foreign affairs and labor and employment to air the following recommendations:
- Include at least 2 NGO representatives and a social worker from the DSWD to sit in the investigative panel;
- Expand the probe to include all forms of sexual exploitation including sexual harassment by embassy personnel;
- Regardless of the outcome of the probes, for the government to formulate a more gender-sensitive, professional and developmental approach to shelter management and OFW services
Read more here - http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/global-filipino/06/25/13/ngos-want-be-part-sex-flight-probe
Friday, June 21, 2013
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Migrants' Stories, Migrants' Voices Volume 3 and 4 Now Online
Migrants' Stories, Migrants' Voices 4 presents 10 stories written by migrants and members of their families. It talks about the different and members of their families. It talks about the different faces of migration and the challenges migrants and members of their families had to go through abroad and in the Philippines. It speaks of how migrants faced the challenges of being in a foreign land and how the families left behind coped with the absence of their family members.
This book is the fourth collection of migrants' stories that aim to express what our migrant brothers and sisters go through abroad and how their families left behind deal with the situation.
This book is the third in a series of stories of overseas Filipinos and members of their families. It offers twelve stories of men and women who each have had an experience about migration. Each of the stories is an account of individual journeys and encounters; those that are both happy and sad, exciting and difficult, inspiring and painful. Each is a reflection of Philippine society – the poverty and unemployment, the compromised laws and policies, the attempts at filling in gaps – that brought about the push for migration, and resulted in misery for some and fulfilment for others.
This book is the third in a series of stories of overseas Filipinos and members of their families. It offers twelve stories of men and women who each have had an experience about migration. Each of the stories is an account of individual journeys and encounters; those that are both happy and sad, exciting and difficult, inspiring and painful. Each is a reflection of Philippine society – the poverty and unemployment, the compromised laws and policies, the attempts at filling in gaps – that brought about the push for migration, and resulted in misery for some and fulfilment for others.
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
MOA - Overseas Landbased Tripartite Consultative Council (OLTCC)
MOA - Overseas Landbased Tripartite Consultative Council (OLTCC)
Nature and Scope
2.1 The OLTCC as a consultative body shall:
a) Serve as a forum through which labor, management and government can work together to address issues and concerns involving OFWs;
b) Act as an advisory body to the Secretary of Labor and Employment in terms of policies and programs affecting labor and employment in the overseas employment sector and
c) Endeavor to arrive ai a consensus on matters brought to it for consideration, deliberation and/or resolution.
Functions
The OLTCC shall have the following functions:
a) consult with the concerned stakeholders on issues and concerns involving OFWS;
b) address priority issues and concerns and recommend solutions or measures on labor and employment concerns in the landbased overseas employment sector through social dialogue and other initiatives;
c) review existing laws and regulations and propose measures and policy actions related to the landbased overseas employment sector; and
d) monitor and evaluate the implementation of international, regional and national programs, plans and projects in the landbased overseas employment sector.
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