A call for an urgent justice mechanism for our OFWs
“We are in solidarity with the appeal of the Migrant Forum in Asia, together with other migrants’ rights movements, on the urgency of ensuring a justice mechanism for repatriated Filipino migrant workers,” says Commissioner Gwendolyn Ll. Pimentel-Gana, the Commission on Human Rights’ focal commissioner on migrants’ rights. Following the release of our statement calling for a more structured and human rights-based system on the repatriation of OFWs, the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) would like to draw attention to the fact that the lack of support from the sending and receiving countries has led to an increase in the number of cases on wage theft. Thus, we urge the government […]