Migrante Europe today expressed optimism on the resolution of the roots of the armed conflict in the Philippines, after the 4th Round of formal peace talks between the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) and the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) was concluded on an upbeat note on 6 April, in the seaside town of Noordwijk, in the Netherlands.
Press Statement
Migrante Europe today expressed strong disapproval on the announcement of state-run Social Security System to impose mandatory membership and membership payments of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs).
SSS president and chief executive Emmanuel F. Dooc made the announcement last weekend,...
Migrante Europe and its members across Europe will organize protest actions and pickets to call for justice and clemency for Jennifer Dalquez and for all unjustly jailed Filipinos around the globe, particularly in the Middle East.
With the government accumulated PhP5 billion from unreimbursed terminal fees, about PhP19 billion for the OWWA fund, and US$28 billion a year from the remittances of Filipino migrant workers, we have high hopes that these amounts will be translated into more concrete programs and services for the benefit of OFWs.
Migrante chapters from different cities in Italy and Italian organizations in solidarity with the Filipino people’s struggles and concerns organized a mobilization in support of the GRP-NDFP peacetalks yesterday, January 22, 2017 at Piazza delle Esquilino in Rome, Italy.
The newly-formed alliance of Filipino migrants, Migrante Europe, has asked the Duterte government to bring Christmas cheers to stranded OFWs and political prisoners by reuniting them with their families.
“We appeal to President Duterte to do everything he can to...
PRESS RELEASE
Migrante International – Europe Chapter (OC)
15 July 2016
The global network Migrante International (MI) is spearheading a series of consultations with its chapters and other migrants groups in various cities in Europe since the election victory of President Rodrigo...
May 13, 2016
Dear President Duterte,
We congratulate you on your overwhelming victory in the May 2016 polls. The Filipino people have spoken, and they chose change.
You sweeping victory is testament to how Filipinos, wherever we are in the world, thirst...
The International Peoples' Tribunal on the Crimes of the Philippine and US Governments Against the Filipino People (IPT 2015) is being convened at the behest mainly of victims1 of human rights violations and other crimes committed under the Presidency of Benigno S. Aquino III in the Philippines and President Barack Obama in the United States.
This humanitarian crisis needs to be immediately and collectively resolved by all governments before more innocent lives are lost. It will be such a shame to see them, stakeholders to the sustainable development goals that all States are crafting and finalizing now, die because we failed to take proactive measures to save them and resolve the situation.
