Hundreds joined the national protest MOVE demo in the Dam Square in Amsterdam, The Netherlands last 18 June to draw attention to human rights violations within Europe’s borders and the difficulties faced by asylum seekers who enter Europe. Migrante Amsterdam, an association of Filipino migrants and refugees, called for equal treatment of Filipino asylum seekers…
Cristina Chi – Philstar.com June 21, 2023 MANILA, Philippines — YouTube on Wednesday terminated the channel of religious sect leader Apollo Quiboloy, taking away a major digital platform from the controversial pastor who faces charges related to sex trafficking and money smuggling in the United States. This came after a content creator flagged YouTube’s support…
Philstar.com June 21, 2023 MANILA, Philippines — Mary Jane Veloso, who has been incarcerated since 2010 in Indonesia over drug trafficking charges, reunited with her family after five years, Migrante International said Wednesday. Veloso’s parents and two sons traveled to Yogyakarta in Indonesia early last week to visit her in the town of Wonosari—where she…
Very little attention has been paid to the Filipinos at the heart of Belgium’s biggest-ever trafficking scandal. The workers, owed months of back-pay for the legally-mandated wages of around €8500 (P517,556), are at risk of being forgotten and could go home with nothing.
Cecil MORELLA, AFP Wed, June 7, 2023 at 1:58 PM GMT+2 When Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos was swept to power in 2022, human rights activists feared the worst. Marcos had been a vocal supporter of his predecessor Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war that killed thousands of people, and publicly praised his dictator father’s rule. But, as…
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Mar 22, 2023 Antonio J. Montalvan II ‘Threatening ICC investigators who will come into the country is an exercise in both ignorance and clutching at straws’ For a lawmaker elected to the branch of government that ratifies international treaties, Bato dela Rosa makes an interesting subject – for his gross ignorance. Either that or he…
Kaycee Valmonte – Philstar.com March 22, 2023 MANILA, Philippines — United Filipinos in Hong Kong (UNIFIL-Migrante HK) are protesting the possible implementation of new regulations that would curtail the movement of overseas Filipino workers deployed there as domestic helpers. This comes after Hong Kong’s Department of Labour kicked off a public consultation on a policy…
Mar 15, 2023, Rappler.com ‘The testimony of the asset confirmed what we have heard all this time,’ says Surigao Representative Ace Barbers MANILA, Philippines – A Philippine Drug Enforcement Authority (PDEA) and Philippine National Police (PNP) informant told a House panel in a closed-door session that there were instances where more than half of illegal…