International Migrants Day to highlight lost lives of OFWs
Over 6,000 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) were deployed abroad every year but not all of them were accounted by the government, a migrant advocacy group said.
OFWs ask Duterte, other candidates: What can you do with inept PH officials abroad?
A group of migrant workers asked presidential candidate Mayor Rodrigo Duterte what he can do with inept Philippine officials abroad.
OFW center in Davao pushed
A nongovernmental organization catering to migrant workers wanted the city government to act fast on the establishment of an OFW center here.
TRAUMATIZED. Christine, a 35-year old OFW from Cabadbaran, Agusan del Norte, recounts how her employer physically and verbally abused her everyday for more than one month of working as a domestic help in Saudi Arabia. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)
Scarred by employer abuse, a repatriated OFW recounts ordeal
Like most Filipinos finding no job opportunities here, she opted to leave her family of four and worked abroad. Her dreams were shattered when employers abused her as she recounted her ordeal in a press conference together with the militant Migrante and the Kilusang Mayo Uno Monday here.
Davao migrant activists decry ‘harrasment’
Migrants rights’ advocates here condemned the alleged harrasment of their members and organizers after one of their houses was ransacked.