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Philippines fetes leadership in Labor Mobility Advocacy during the United Nation s Regional Review of the Global Compact on Migration

Foreign Affairs Undersecretary for Migrant Workers’ Affairs Sarah Lou Arriola MANILA, Mar. 13 The Philippines successfully steered discussions on “Labor Mobility and Human Rights: Examining Migrant Labor Governance in the Middle East in the Context of Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM)” on 11 March 2021, the second day of the regional review of the implementation of the GCM conducted by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP). Foreign Affairs Undersecretary for Migrant Workers’ Affairs Sarah Lou Arriola, who was elected as Chair of UNESCAP’s Asia-Pacific Regional Review of the Implementation of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration from 10-12 March 2021 in Bangkok, delivered the Philippine statement during the discussions.  Arriola related how the problems of overseas Filipino workers such as the confiscation of their passports by their employers and the lack of labor mobility

Gov t admits difficulty in going after illegal recruiters

Senator Sherwin Gatchalian (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) “We have to admit that we have very few convictions, your honor,” Department of Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III told senators during a hearing of the Senate labor committee Monday, February 15. Before this, Senator Sherwin Gatchalian inquired if the proposed creation of the Department of Overseas Filipinos (DOFIL) being pushed by the Duterte administration would be able to address the persisting problem on the illegal recruitment of OFWs. Senator Joel Villanueva, the committee chairman, cited a report from the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) showing that of the 295 illegal recruitment cases endorsed by the agency for investigation from 2016 to November, 2020, only 25 cases ended to the conviction of the respondents.

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