PHL bats for strong action for migrant protection

AMID REPORTS ON OFW ABUSES


The Philippines on Monday strongly called for global action for the protection of migrants workers, citing recent "unfortunate experiences" of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs).
"The Philippines is unrelenting in pushing for a fair and humane treatment of our overseas workers especially our women migrant workers," Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said in a statement read by Undersecretary Joel Maglunsod during the plenary session of the 107th session of the International Labor Conference in Geneva, Switzerland.
"They are, on varying degrees, subjected to violence at work and experienced abuse and inhumane treatment."
During the event, the Philippines also brought to international attention the need for global intervention in addressing violence and harassment in the world of work, especially against women workers.
"The conference theme on 'Women at Work' is timely and relevant to us against the backdrop of unfortunate experiences by Filipino overseas workers the past few months," the PHL statement read.
The Philippines has drawn global focus early this year following reports of alleged deaths and abuses of female OFWs in the Middle East.
It recently banned the deployment of newly hired Filipino workers to Kuwait amid reports of abuses. The ban was lifted after the two countries signed a memorandum of understanding on the protection of OFWs.
Maglunsod said the Philippine government actively engaged the labor-receiving countries so as to afford the OFWs full and equal protection of their rights and promote their welfare.
"This we do by forging bilateral labor agreements with host countries," the statement said, adding that some 37 of those agreements had already been concluded.
"But these initiatives of the Philippine government are not enough to sufficiently protect the rights and promote the welfare of migrant Filipinos," it added.
Still, the Philippines said there is still a need for "more responsive international cooperation tools to enable governments and stakeholders to provide safer and more suitable migration blueprint."
"It is heartbreaking to note that despite global interventions not only by the ILO but of other international organizations, we have yet to achieve gender equality at this technologically-advanced age," it added. —KBK, GMA News

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