The Department of Foreign Affairs has ordered the stoppage of sending overseas Filipino workers to the following countries due to hostilities and conflicts:
*Afghanistan
A total ban on the deployment of Filipino workers in Afghanistan took effect only in 2007.
*Iraq
OFWs were prohibited from going to Iraq in 2004 after a series of suicide bomb attacks and abduction of foreigners followed the US-led war.
*Jordan
Reports of widespread abuse to Filipino workers prompted the government to ban deployment here on Jan 2008.
*Lebanon
Following the Israel-Lebanon conflict, Filipino workers were not allowed to enter this conflict-ridden country on June 2007.
*Nigeria
Deployment ban in this country was implemented on Dec. 2007.
Several OFWs have protested the imposition of the deployment ban on these countries. Reports claim that some workers resort to illegal papers to enter these conflict areas.
- GMANews.TV
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Most of the countries mentioned here are the ones that have been experiencing civil wars and are thus not really safe for the people living there let alone the immigrants. Take Lebanon for instance, while doing a post for my blog http://onlineremit.blogspot.com/ I came to know how several thousand OFWs (without proper documentation) are being sent to Lebanon despite the ban on the country by the Arroyo government. It clearly shows that the recruitment agencies are taking all the extreme measures to illegally move the OFWs to these war ridden countries while these hapless OFWs are falling in their traps because they have their families to support.
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