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The United Children of Israel says some 600 families could now face expulsion over a loss of residency status Agence France-Presse @afp Published 11:05 AM, August 09, 2019 Updated 11:30 AM, August 09, 2019 ISRAEL IS HOME. Filipino children carry a banner which reads in Hebrew 'Don't deport me' during a protest against deportation in Tel Aviv on August 6, 2019. Photo by Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP TEL AVIV, Israel – In the heat of the summer, Sivan Noel and her sister Michal say they rarely venture outside of their family's small, basement apartment in Tel Aviv. The two girls, 11 and 9, risk being deported to the family's home country, the Philippines, even though they've never set foot there. "I was born here," said Sivan, the 11-year-old. "It's really unfair that after being born here and having a family, friends, school and studies, we are being told that... we now must leave to a pla...

(UPDATED) Social welfare attachés will be responsible for assisting and managing cases of overseas Filipino workers in distress, trafficking victims, and abandoned children, among others Sofia Tomacruz Published 8:07 AM, July 17, 2019 Updated 10:25 PM, July 18, 2019 Facebook Twitter Reddit Email MANILA, Philippines (UPDATED) – President Rodrigo Duterte has signed a law that creates social welfare attachés for countries with a large number of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs). Republic Act (RA) No. 11299, also known as An Act Establishing the Office for the Social Welfare Attaché was signed on April 17. A copy of the law was shared with media on Tuesday, July 16. The law amends Section 2 of RA No. 8042 or the Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipinos Act of 1995 to include providing protection and assistance to Filipino migrant workers "especially for workers who are vulnerable to physical, emotional, and psychological stres...

By:  Ryan Arcadio  -  @inquirerdotnet INQUIRER.net  / 07:12 PM August 01, 2019 An award-winning Filipino artist is asking the public for help to locate his artworks that he had to leave behind in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Darwin Guevarra had left some of his artworks in Dubai when he had to suddenly return home to the Philippines in 2015. He said he already asked for assistance from the concerned agencies of the government (names of the offices withheld upon request of Guevarra) about the issue but to no avail, as per his Facebook post last Saturday, July 27. Guevarra was active in the Dubai art scene during his 12 years of living there. He had participated in his first group show in 2006 and later on went to have his own solo shows. He won second prize in the mixed-media category of the Red Bull Art Competition in the UAE in 2006. He also won the grand prize for fine arts in the Dubai Shaikha Manal New Signatures Young Artist A...

By   Joel R. San Juan  - August 23, 2019 81 Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro L. Locsin Jr. (left) and International Court of Justice Judge Yuji Iwasawa shake hands at the opening on Thursday (August 22) of the 7th Biennial Conference of the Asian Society of International Law. FOREIGN Affairs Secretary Teodoro L. Locsin Jr. on Thursday stressed the importance of respecting treaty obligations under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (Unclos) to avoid conflict that could lead to war. In a speech at the opening of the 7th Biennial Conference of the Asian Society of International Law (Asil), Locsin referred to Unclos as the constitution of the oceans. However, despite its near universal acceptance by 168 states parties, Locsin said “the most imminent and potentially the most disastrous dangers in our world today pertain to marine and maritime affairs.” “If only we respected pacta sun...

July 31, 2019   By Jester P. Manalastas   People's Journal A measure creating the Department of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) and Foreign Employment was filed in the House of Representatives. The bill is principally authored by Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano, his wife Taguig City Rep. Ma. Laarni Cayetano and presidential son Davao City Rep. Paolo Duterte. The three are pushing for the creation of a single agency to provide an integrated, more comprehensive and sustainable approach to address the problems and concerns of overseas Filipino workers and their families.    The Department of Overseas Filipino Workers and Foreign Employment aims to ensure the agency would manage, harmonize and strengthen existing policies and programs on migration. Speaker Cayetano said the consolidated department must ensure the delivery of services and provision of assistance will be faster, better, more responsive and more efficient.   ...

August 15, 2019   By lee   People's Journal THE Department of Labor and Employment yesterday said the deployment of workers to Hong Kong continues despite the mounting protests and civil disturbance in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory. Labor Secretary Silvestre H. Bello III said the labor department is yet to receive a recommendation from the Department of Foreign Affairs for a temporary deployment ban, even as the Philippine Overseas Labor Office (POLO) is closely monitoring the situation. “The DFA has not yet raised the alert level in Hong Kong. We are waiting for their recommendation before we make any action or temporarily suspend the deployment of our OFWs in Hong Kong,” he said. Bello also directed the labor officials in Hong Kong to provide him with periodic reports on the situation and especially if unrest escalates. Meanwhile, he advised OFWs to stay indoors and avoid going to areas where protests were concentrated. “W...

August 06, 2019   By Cristina Lee-Pisco   People's Journal Six  Filipinos  return from Libya  on Monday as clashes continue in Tripoli and neighboring areas. This brings  to 99 the number of Filipinos who were repatriated by the Philippine Embassy in Tripoli. Also evacuated was a Thai national married to one of the six Filipinos who had requested the assistance of the Embassy in leaving the country because of the continuing clashes near the Libyan capital. Embassy Chargé d’Affaires Elmer G. Cato said the evacuees, composed of  four female nurses, a male teacher and a male worker, are now on their way to Tunis where they will be repatriated to the Philippines. Cato said the assistance extended to the Thai national was in line with the instructions of Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro L. Locsin, Jr., for the Embassy to open its doors to distressed nationals from other Southeast Asian countries. The Chargé d’Affaire...