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                    [Title] => iWant streams winning student docu
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                    [DatePublished] => 2019-07-05 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 134540
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                    [AuthorID] => 1435770
                    [AuthorName] => Kane Errol Choa
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The Filipino migrant workers are celebrating all over the world, on that latest Supreme Court decision favoring OFWs, and declaring as unconstitutional that provision of RA 10022, which limits to three months the back wages that an illegally dismissed OFWs are supposed to receive.

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Whether we call them household service workers or simply maids, the name does not matter. What matters most is that these Filipino migrant workers are the most vulnerable, the most unprotected, the most rampant victims of  abuses, maltreatment, exploitation, injustice, and all forms of  harassment.

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There is no question that our migrant workers abroad deserve to be considered our modern-day heroes.

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The Philippine government is appealing to all Filipinos and other nationals of goodwill to help produce the difference between the 44 million pesos demanded by the victim, supposedly killed by OFW Joselito Zapanta in Saudi Arabia, and the amount of 5.6 Million pesos already generated by the Zapanta family, from their own funds and from friends' and relatives' donations.

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The ongoing processes of rescue, evacuation and repatriation of Filipino workers in Libya, as well as the search and rescue operations for Filipino victims in the New Zealand earthquake, at one point, when tempers were uncontrolled, had representatives respectively of Dole/POEA, on the one hand, and DFA, on the other, reportedly pointing fingers at each other.

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In the total overhaul of our labor migration policies, we need to start with a realization and full acceptance of the fact that, there is today a total incongruity between the current realities in the world labor markets on the one hand, and the core competencies and character of the Filipino workers.

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Migrant workers will stage protest actions on Thursday to demand more action on the plight of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in strife torn regions in the Middle East and Libya.

[DatePublished] => 2011-03-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804896 [AuthorName] => Sheila Crisostomo [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 658749 [Title] => Mga pinasagdan [Summary] =>

Palihog itandi ang kahimtang sa mga molupyo sa ubang kanasuran nga naapiki dinhi sa ato sa mga Pilipinhon nga nagkinahanglan og tabang sa ubang kanasuran.

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Palihog itandi ang kahimtang sa mga molupyo sa ubang kanasuran nga naapiki dinhi sa ato sa mga Pilipinhon nga nagkinahanglan og tabang sa ubang kanasuran. 

[DatePublished] => 2011-02-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133499 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097205 [AuthorName] => Leo Lastimosa [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
Delia Maga
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                    [DatePublished] => 2019-07-05 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 134540
                    [Focus] => 1
                    [AuthorID] => 1435770
                    [AuthorName] => Kane Errol Choa
                    [SectionName] => Entertainment
                    [SectionUrl] => entertainment
                    [URL] => https://media.philstar.com/photos/2019/07/05/ent3_2019-07-05_00-22-3317_thumbnail.jpg
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                    [ArticleID] => 1380459
                    [Title] => The pains and sufferings of our female OFWs
                    [Summary] => 

The Filipino migrant workers are celebrating all over the world, on that latest Supreme Court decision favoring OFWs, and declaring as unconstitutional that provision of RA 10022, which limits to three months the back wages that an illegally dismissed OFWs are supposed to receive.

[DatePublished] => 2014-10-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136164 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1148714 [AuthorName] => Atty. Josephus B. Jimenez [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1306466 [Title] => We should stop deploying domestic helpers abroad [Summary] =>

Whether we call them household service workers or simply maids, the name does not matter. What matters most is that these Filipino migrant workers are the most vulnerable, the most unprotected, the most rampant victims of  abuses, maltreatment, exploitation, injustice, and all forms of  harassment.

[DatePublished] => 2014-03-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134002 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1146379 [AuthorName] => Atty Josephus B Jimenez [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 962306 [Title] => The “sins” of our “heroes” [Summary] =>

There is no question that our migrant workers abroad deserve to be considered our modern-day heroes.

[DatePublished] => 2013-07-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134002 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1146379 [AuthorName] => Atty Josephus B Jimenez [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 933508 [Title] => Should we help produce “Blood Money” for death convicts? [Summary] =>

The Philippine government is appealing to all Filipinos and other nationals of goodwill to help produce the difference between the 44 million pesos demanded by the victim, supposedly killed by OFW Joselito Zapanta in Saudi Arabia, and the amount of 5.6 Million pesos already generated by the Zapanta family, from their own funds and from friends' and relatives' donations.

[DatePublished] => 2013-04-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134002 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1146389 [AuthorName] => Atty Josephus B. Jimenez [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 669636 [Title] => Should DFA or DOLE handle migrant workers' affairs? [Summary] =>

The ongoing processes of rescue, evacuation and repatriation of Filipino workers in Libya, as well as the search and rescue operations for Filipino victims in the New Zealand earthquake, at one point, when tempers were uncontrolled, had representatives respectively of Dole/POEA, on the one hand, and DFA, on the other, reportedly pointing fingers at each other.

[DatePublished] => 2011-03-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134003 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1148714 [AuthorName] => Atty. Josephus B. Jimenez [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 667367 [Title] => Rethinking Philippine Labor Migration - Part Two [Summary] =>

In the total overhaul of our labor migration policies, we need to start with a realization and full acceptance of the fact that, there is today a total incongruity between the current realities in the world labor markets on the one hand, and the core competencies and character of the Filipino workers.

[DatePublished] => 2011-03-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134004 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1146528 [AuthorName] => Atty Josephus Jimenez [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 665396 [Title] => Migrant workers to stage protest actions [Summary] =>

Migrant workers will stage protest actions on Thursday to demand more action on the plight of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in strife torn regions in the Middle East and Libya.

[DatePublished] => 2011-03-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804896 [AuthorName] => Sheila Crisostomo [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 658749 [Title] => Mga pinasagdan [Summary] =>

Palihog itandi ang kahimtang sa mga molupyo sa ubang kanasuran nga naapiki dinhi sa ato sa mga Pilipinhon nga nagkinahanglan og tabang sa ubang kanasuran.

[DatePublished] => 2011-02-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133499 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097205 [AuthorName] => Leo Lastimosa [SectionName] => Banat Opinyon [SectionUrl] => opinyon [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 658532 [Title] => Mga pinasagdan [Summary] =>

Palihog itandi ang kahimtang sa mga molupyo sa ubang kanasuran nga naapiki dinhi sa ato sa mga Pilipinhon nga nagkinahanglan og tabang sa ubang kanasuran. 

[DatePublished] => 2011-02-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133499 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097205 [AuthorName] => Leo Lastimosa [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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