By JOJO DASS
Published July 2, 2021 8:23am
Part of the 348 OFWs queue in for their travel documents at the Dubai International Airport on Wednesday night, June 30, 2021. PHOTO COURTESY OF THE PHILIPPINE CONSULATE GENERAL DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – The Philippine Consulate here has over 3,000 pending repatriation requests from overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), most of whom have cancelled work visas and thus risk overstaying as they don’t have legal status anymore to remain in the UAE. In light of this, Consul General Paul Raymund Cortes, head of the Philippine mission in Dubai and the neighboring northern emirates, said it’s all hands on deck at the consulate to address the situation as more requests keep coming in.
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Colonel Joel Alejandro Nacnac, chief of AFP Human Rights Office, said the report listed a total of 532 NPA attacks which had been monitored since 2010.
He said the report was submitted last Monday, January 11, to Ms. Signe Poulsen, Representative to the Philippines of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights; and Mr. Gustavo Gonzales, UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in the Philippines.
A copy of the report was also sent to Undersecretary Severo Catura, executive director of the Presidential Human Rights Committee; and Assistant Secretary Noralyn Jubaira-Baja, of the Department of Foreign Affairs’ Office of the United Nations and International Organizations.
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Canada suspended arms export permits for controlled weapons to Turkey in October 2019 following Turkey’s invasion of parts of northern Syria. So how did Canadian parts come to be used in drones fighting for Azerbaijan in its war with Armenia in October 2020?
Canadian news site Ricochet recently investigated the lobbying trail which ties Turkish drone company Baykar to a decision to create an exemption in Canada’s arms embargo to Turkey. This exemption was created in April, “the same month Trudeau reportedly discussed the issue in a phone call with Turkey’s president,” according to Ricochet. A month later, Canadian firm L3Harris Wescam started exporting surveillance and targeting systems used in Baykar’s drones.