Here is a link to the video that we in the Blas F. Ople Center created to highlight Mang Fred’s heartwarming reunion with his mother: Last Friday, Alfredo Salmos finally got the chance to come…
The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration, from January to May 2012, has cancelled the licenses of 21 recruitment agencies and suspended 14 others, including five agencies charged motu propio by the office, for numerous recruitment violations….
News Release Blas F. Ople Policy Center May 20, 2012 Two years after suffering severe burns due to electrocution, overseas Filipino worker Alfredo Salmos is finally arriving home.
By Aurea Calica (The Philippine Star) Posted May 11, 2012 12:00 AM Source: www.philstar.com MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines would not be provoked by any action – and would not initiate provocative acts – that…
Ople Center urges DFA to seek international community’s help in the rescue of Pinoy seafarer held captive in Somalia for the past 2 years Mother’s Day may be just a week away but that fact…
26 April 2012: Trade union activists, as well as domestic workers, are thrilled to see a breakthrough in the ‘12 by 12’ campaign: Uruguay made history by being the first country to ratify International Labor Organization
Source: DIRECT FROM THE LABOR FRONT By Atty Josephus Jimenez The national police has been ordered to be in full alert. The military is on standby. No, we are not just watching the movements of…
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25 April 2012 United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Wednesday expressed deep concern about current or recent moves in a number of countries to curtail the freedom of non-governmental organizations (NGOs)…
SPEECH OF HIS EXCELLENCY BENIGNO S. AQUINO III PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES AT THE 2ND MINISTERIAL MEETING ON THE ABU DHABI DIALOGUE SOFITEL PHILIPPINE PLAZA PASAY CITY APRIL 19, 2012 For the longest time, it…
17-19 April 2012, Manila, Philippines CONFERENCE DECLARATION As representatives of over 20 civil society organizations and trade unions from Bangladesh, Hong Kong, India, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Nepal, Oman, Philippines, Qatar, and Sri Lanka, we met…
This famous battle for Cebu happened on Palm Sunday, where Cebuanos dressed properly to go to mass and have their palms blessed. But a dawn incident on April 3rd happened where some Katipunero friends of…
The Blas F. Ople Center, a non-profit organization that specializes in labor and migration issues, made a formal recommendation to the Department of Foreign Affairs for an immediate and impartial probe into anomalous practices involving…
ALL FILIPINO CITIZENS ABROAD, not otherwise disqualified by law, at least (18) years of age on the day of elections, may now participate in Philippine national elections under the Overseas Absentee Voting Act 2003 (Republic…
In celebration of women’s month, Reproductive Health Advocacy Network (RHAN) invites you to “Rage for RH! — Rally against Gender Discrimination, for Women’s Empowerment!” on 30 March 2012, from 3:30 to 7:00 pm, at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani…
Labor and Employment Secretary Rosalinda-Dimapilis, who is also the chairman of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration Governing Board, yesterday announced that the Board had issued three separate resolutions lifting the ban on the deployment of…
Labor and Employment Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz yesterday announced that overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who wanted to take their board licensure examinations and enhance their edge and competitiveness, even if they are based overseas, can now…
16 March 2012 – The DFA recently received a report from the Philippine Embassy in Singapore that a Filipino based in that country received an email from consulate@dfa.gov.ph informing him that the Department of Justice…
Magsaysay did not finish his term that was expected to end of December 30, 1957 because he died in a plane crash. On March 16, 1957 Magsaysay left Manila for Cebu City where he spoke…
Source: poea.gov.ph – Overseas Filipino workers without the proper employment documents are more prone to abuses and exploitation by their employers, the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration said as it warned OFWs anew against the use…
Source: poea.gov.ph “You are selected!” The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration advises jobseekers to think twice before replying to e-mails with the said subject especially those coming from “international companies” they have never heard of before….
Joint Press Statement Department of Labor and Employment-Maritime Training Center and the Commission on Higher Education on the Closure of Non-Compliant Maritime Education Programs of the Philippine Maritime Institute 07 March 2012 The Philippines, a…